Monday, July 2, 2012

NOKW - The Hangover Part II

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  The Hangover Part II

Basic Plot:  Zach Galifianakis and friends run around Bangkok (hehe) while trying to remember the night before.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that this was the exact same movie as the first one, except in Bangkok (hehe) and it was Stu's soon-to-be brother-in-law that is missing this time.  The fact they are making another one of these movies despite having already done the exact same movie twice (if you can't tell, I didn't like this one).  The fact that the main characters don't end up dead or in jail after starting a riot.  The fact that Stu is not ragged on more after getting banged by a transvestite stripper.  The fact that Mike Tyson would fly all the way to Stu's wedding to sing a song even though they stole his tiger in the first movie.  The fact that Doug is 0 for 2 in going out on the town with his buddies on these crazy nights.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that the whole plot is based around the fact that Stu's brother-in-law, Teddy,  was stuck in an elevator due to rolling blackouts and the gang couldn't find him.  The key to that sentence being "rolling" blackouts, which means that the power would have come back on at some point and Teddy would have easily gotten out.  The blackouts happen randomly throughout the movie, but the power comes back on, however magically, it doesn't at the hotel they woke up in.  That is stupid.  On top of that, Teddy was supposed to be some sort of genius and even if he was missing a finger, he should have easily found a way out of that elevator.  But movie logic decided to have the power stay out at their hotel and made Teddy an idiot at a time his brains should have helped him out.  I am not okay with that.

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