The Hangover

One of my favorite comedies of all time is “The Hangover” starring Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis.  From beginning to end I could not stop laughing.  My favorite character in the movie is played by Zach, also known as “Fat Jesus” to some, who plays just an outrageous character.  Whenever it seems like there is going to be a serious moment in the movie he always says or does something that takes the seriousness of the situation right out of the picture.

                Ed Helms, who many people know as Andy Bernard from The Office, plays a more serious character but at the same time you can’t help but laugh at what he does.  One of his funniest parts in the movie is when you find out that he married a stripper and gave her his grandmother’s holocaust ring.  The shock in that entire series of events he portrays seems almost real and the expressions on his face had me cracking up laughing.  I later found out that the main reason he got the part is because in real life he has a crown on one tooth so he could actually pull his tooth out and make the part that much more believable.

                Finally we get to Bradley Cooper’s character.  He’s almost a mix of the other two characters with some added good looks.  Essentially he’s the ringleader of the group and while he tries to be serious at times he can’t help but laugh at the different things that have happened to all of them.  It seems that he enjoys every minute of the entirely screwed up bachelor trip to Vegas to the fullest, including when they find a tiger in their hotel bathroom the next morning.

                When the movie is over you will have found that you want to watch it again and again just to see if you missed anything the first time or two around.  It’s rumored that they’re going to make a second one but I don’t know how they are going to top this one.  I’ll definitely go see the second one if it comes out but this will by far be one of my favorite comedies of all time.  “The Hangover” is a movie that I would recommend to anybody looking for a big long laugh.

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