Yesterday morning I had this conversation with Tyne when we happened to catch the same bus to work.
Tyne: Let’s watch Hangover 3!
Me: Isn’t it only Hangover 2? But sure, okay.
Tyne: Are you sure? I mean, you don’t like slapstick, right?
Me: Well yeah, but who knows, maybe it’s not that bad. Let me check out its rating on IMDB. (Checks out IMDB app on phone.) Looks like it’s okay, it’s rated 7.
Tyne: 7 out of 10? Is that a good rating? What’s the basis?
Me: Yeah. Basis – X-Men, 8.
Tyne: There’s an X-Men 8?
Don’t you just love Tyne? 🙂
Anyway, she and I really did catch the movie last night. I hadn’t seen part I so I didn’t know these guys like Tyne did. I found it to be very hilarious and I think it deserves that 7 rating. The things that people do when they’re drugged. Haha.
It was so funny that I wanted to watch part 1. Turns out Tyne had a copy of it in her laptop at home so her bedroom was our next cinema. We watched it while downing some Versus white wine which we found at their grocery. It tasted really nice, for wine. I mean I usually hate wine.
Both stories are the same in that the same guys go on a bachelor party, unknowingly get slipped some drugs by the same guy, Alan, and go wild, waking up the next morning in a trashed up place with absolutely no memory of how it happened and one of the fellows missing. In part 1 it’s the groom, Doug, in part 2 it’s the groom’s (Stu’s) brother-in-law-to-be. In part 1 the setting is in Las Vegas while part 2 is in Thailand.
I love how they used parallels in both films:
(1) The opening scene that has Phil calling the bride on the phone to ‘fess up that they messed up before moving on to the flashbacks.
(2) The scene towards the end that has Stu having an epiphany about where the missing person is then tackling Phil to get the phone and take back what he said to the bride.
(3) The scene that has them rushing to where the missing person is and they find him there and hurriedly make it barely in time for the wedding.
(4) Someone discovers the pictures they took of their adventures the previous night and they decide that together they will look at the pictures once and delete them, then the credits roll with said pictures flashed next to the credits and boy, what shocking pictures they are.
When the credits rolled in the cinema, I turned to Tyne and asked, “So, do you still want to get drunk?”
And this morning when I woke up, the first thing I did was check that all my fingers were still intact, that I had no tattoo on my face, and that there were no tigers or monkeys in the bathroom. Thank goodness Tyne didn’t slip any roofies in my wine eh?
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