Well, last night I screened Hangover: Part II and I wasn't impressed. Sure it was funny and worth a watch, but it's the same funny as the first film but poorly executed. 

When I say the "same funny", I mean the same funny. It is almost exactly like original movie, only in a different city and Doug (Justin Bartha) is sitting on the beach safe and sound, but they lose someone else in their unknown adventures the night before. Someone you don't even get to know enough beforehand to even CARE that he's missing.

That's another thing, Stu (Ed Helms) is marrying a girl we have never seen/met before. I, like the rest of my friends, was expecting an actual marriage to happen between Stu and the stripper. But, this is apparently a few years in the future and Stu has found a pretty Asian girl, Lauren (Jamie Chung), whose brother, Teddy (Mason Lee) is the one The Wolfpack loses the night before.

I think the part everyone is looking forward to in this movie is the writing. Hangover was HILARIOUS mostly because of the writing. I cannot tell you how long it took for my classmates to stop quoting it constantly* (keyword. my friends and I still do quote it.) 

Anyway, my point is...the writing in Hangover 2 isn't as great. The only line I can sorta remember that was a good laugh was "You see this napkin over my orange juice? I put it there so no one would ROOFIE ME!" Want to know why it's funny? Because its a callback to the original movie!

I might make a list in a different post later about all the parallels between the two movies (because it's painfully obvious). I should have expected it, but I honestly thought they would think of a different storyline. Yes, keep some of the same elements to "callback" to the original again, but the whole thing? It's boring. My point will make more sense after I make the list...

Should you see it? Yes. Like I said, it IS funny, but please, don't go in thinking it's better than the first Hangover.

3D? ITS NOT 3D, STOP ASKING ME! <---what I was yelling in my head to customers ALL day today)

Other comments? The monkey smoking a cigarette. Oh my lord, PETA had a cow...I will tell you now, that cigarette was animated. At least the lit end and smoke were. CHILL OUT.

Releasing next week:

and a few other movies that probably won't make it to my theater...so, not listing those. Yes I'm screening X-Men, no, I'm not reviewing it. Main reason: it'll be the first X-Men film I would have seen. Don't know what I'm expecting :/

I'm going to see Kung Fu Panda 2 tonight! STOKED :D

Definitely going to review it. I'll put it up tomorrow. Unless I love it enough to want to tell everyone tonight. Haha :)

Toodles.