The Hangover (***½)

We call this "The Loser Bench"
It would not be possible for me to recommend “The Hangover” highly enough. This movie is laugh-out-loud funny from beginning to end, and is driven by the script, the story, and the situations, not by “stars”. Hollywood has gotten lazy about making deals instead of making movies, and have developed a pattern of putting A-list stars into films with mediocre scripts and huge advertising budgets, and just expecting us to show up because we don’t know any better.
Well, now you know better, at least about this film. Parts of it are raunchy, but that’s not its purpose – the raunch is essential to the plot. And the plot sounds hackneyed, but it is *not*. This is the story of four friends who go to Las Vegas for a
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