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The Hangover comes out this weekend, and it looks very good to me. They’re killing it with the movie posters. It’s got Videogum favorite (and basically everyone else favorite) Zach Galifianakis. And despite what the New York Times said this weekend, I don’t consider “Las Vegas bachelor party” to be the oldest plot device in the book of plot devices. I’m not saying “Las Vegas bachelor party” blows my mind with its Charlie Kaufman-esque moebius nesting dolls of narrative invention, but it seems like a perfectly acceptable framework on which to build one’s TOWER OF LAFFS.
Anyway, there is yet another new red band trailer out today, after the jump. Personally, I think they can chill with the trailers at this point. There have already been over 1,000 iterations of the trailer for this movie. Relax. But I’m not President of Trailers, so I don’t get to make those kinds of decisions. (Yet.) Nevertheless, this trailer does have some new laffs in it, and also some new CLUES!
As you may recall from one of the previous 1,700 trailers for this movie, The Hangover tells the story of three friends trying to retrace their steps and find their missing friend after a crazy night in Las Vegas. OK! And this trailer gives us some glimpses of what some of those steps were!
“BLINK AND YOU MIGHT MISS IT!”
–Malcolm Gladwell
Using scientific technology and an incredible amount of spare time, I have slowed down the trailer to reveal these snapshots of just what happened during that fateful night on which the whole movie is predicated. SPOILER ALERT: I am a nerd.
Computer, let’s bring up that first image.
“Sure.”
–Computer
OK, Zach Galifianakis gets his navel pierced. No big deal, BUT A SALIENT DETAIL NONETHELESS. Computer, show us something more intriguing.
Interesting. That must be the mystery woman that Ed Helms marries, which we know he does because there have been TOO MANY TRAILERS and there is very little MYSTERY actually left to this movie, and it is a good thing this is a comedy and so the point is the laffs and not the BURNING QUESTIONS.
Next slide, computer.
Ed Helms PULLS HIS OWN TOOTH OUT! Sherlock Holmes is like “Well done, guv’nah” and I am like, “Thanks.”
And finally, computer, let’s take another look the most exciting piece of previously unknown information regarding what happens during the mysterious night that is growing less and less mysterious as variation on variation of trailer for this movie is released:
They meet Carrot Top. Surprise? I guess that kind of explains his random appearance in the last Between Two Ferns. A pattern emerges. A potato is a computer. See you at the cinemaz.
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Ugh, the last movie I saw based on this plot was Very Bad Things, and that is high on my list of worst movies of all time.
very bad things should be renamed CHRISTIAN SLATER DOES A LOT OF YELLING
Christian Bale’s career should be renamed ‘we get it, you really like Jack Nicholson’.
I know and this doesn’t even have Jeremy Piven naked to recommend it.
Or Dude Where’s My Car? but this one is more like Dude Where’s the Other Dude and Why Do We Have a Cop Car?
But this looks like it has less Ashton Kutcher and infinitely more laffs.
i totally agree with this assessment. The whole lost night pieced together by little odd clues, even the whole alien thing . . . oops. spoiler alert.
VERY BAD THINGS is reason enough to avoid this movie; WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME NOMINEE, Gabe!!!
i saw the screening of this months ago, the slideshow at the end was the best part, people really shouldn’t be seeing these before watching the movie. lame.
i was thinking to myself while watching the part of the preview that one guy who is smashing there police car with a bat looks like mac from it always sunny in philadelphia, and then i started thinking this movie would be a lot better if charlie from it always sunny was in it.
By losing its shit and going ga-ga over this film, Videogum loses its right to toss around the term “douchebag.”
Good comment. Very critical.
It is a good movie, you can relax. its not the best movie, its not tropic thunder, but its pretty good.
and the clips you slowed down aren’t in the film proper, they appear as a montage in the end credits, much of what happened that night is actually left untold.
except the tooth pulling, thats a major detail that you just spoiled. good fucking job gabe.
You guys can all relax. its a good movie. very funny, (tbs). but yeah, not the greatest. its no tropic thunder. (if you didnt like tropic thunder, then its no (some movie you liked). but actually no cus if you didnt like tropic thunder you are broken and wont like this either probs(PROBS!)).
and the single frames you captured are not from the movie proper, they are from the montage during ending credits. much of what goes on in that crazy night is actually left untold, with the exception of the tooth which is a MAJOR plot detail. so good fucking job spoiling that gabe.
This post is a giant spoiler of the film’s closing credit sequence.
Also — the movie is funny, but it’s not THAT funny; a lot of the scenarios dreamed up are just kind of cliche.there, i said it.
and this 100 percent business on rotten tomatoes is outta control. 70% seems fair.
that said, Land of the Lost had me piss-laughing pretty consistently, so thats where my heads at.
WTF ythis movie has 100% on rotten tomatoes?? I think it’s just because no refutable sources have reviewed it yet.