To be fair there has never been a comedy sequel that improved on the original, so why did any of us expect “The Hangover Part III” to really be all that good, even after ‘The Hangover Part II” kind of let us all down after “The Hangover” kicked everyone’s asses? They ditched the tired conceit of trying to recap their lost night and replaced it with a more straight forward story, and they all ditched the concept of this movie being a comedy and replaced that with a weird thriller involving kidnappings, druggings, murder and prison breaks.  Also one of the main characters going off his meds and just being unhinged and wild eyed the entire more. And I’m not talking about Bradley Cooper.

“The Hangover Part III” starts with Alan (Zach Galifianakis, The Campaign) off his meds and causing so much damage that he literally gives his father a heart attack from all the stress, which then leads to his family sending him off to an an institution of some sort to “get better.” His old wolfpack buddies Stu (Ed Helms, Cedar Rapids) and Phil (Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook) agree to accompany Alan and his brother-in-law Doug (Justin Bartha, Gigli) on the long trip to this place. But on the way they are kidnapped by henchmen and tasked with finding Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong, Pain & Gain), who stole millions of dollars from some bad guy named Marshall (John Goodman, Flight), a bad guy who blames the entrance of the cancerous Mr. Chow into his life all to a chance encounter between Alan and Doug the drug dealer (Mike Epps, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction) all the way back in the first movie. So the Wolfpack has to find Mr. Chow and bring him to Marshall, or else Marshall is going to kill Doug, kidnapping him, and again removing the character from the equation once again, because who wants to see Justin Bartha do anything except sit quietly at gunpoint?Continue Reading …