You also had the Three Stooges. Slapstick ain’t a new thing.
I think there’s still a ton of dry, witty, droll humor out there. But YMMV.
I laughed. It was dumb humor but dumb humor that made me laugh.
The only sour spot was the bit with Tyson. I have a hard time laughing when I’m just thinking “Hey, there’s that batshit insane ear-biting rapist freak. Yeah, let’s glorify him in a movie.”
The idea had potential and there were a couple of amusing parts but overall it was a major disappointment. A number of scenes where they obviously were trying to be funny… they weren’t… at all.
The quality of the movie was irrelevant to me. What I loved most is that an R-rated comedy made big bucks, increasing the chances that studios make more R-rated comedy. For that reason alone I find The Hangover to be a revelation.
For completeness, I did like it but haven’t watched it again. I’d put it around Forgetting Sarah Marshall level funny. (FSM was also R-rated, had rouglhy the same budget, but made less than 1/6th the box office.)
Betcha I’m older.
This should have read “**my parents **had a similar reaction to Pirates of the Carribean.” Sorry.
Great line!
You called it. But I wanted to just cement that point–unfunny movie is unfunny regardless of setting.
And then they gave us “Due Date”. I hope you’re proud of yourself :mad:
Can someone who laughed describe some funny parts, maybe? I meant the title of this thread literally. There are jokes that don’t work, jokes that are so bad that I feel insulted as an audience member in possession of a neocortex, and then there’s The Hangover, which I felt didn’t even really have jokes. I kept waiting for something that I was even supposed to laugh at.
As for originality, all I saw was:
-Bunch of guys go to Vegas and craziness ensues (Very Bad Things among many others)
-They wake up with evidence of an insane night, but don’t remember it (Dude, Where’s My Car?)
-A random celebrity plays himself (Harold and Kumar)
Well, one part that was pretty funny, IMO was when they were waiting for the tiger tranquilizers to take effect and Stu (Ed Helms) sings an absurd little song while playing the piano.
For some reason, the lyrics, the tune and the situation combined to strike me as extremely funny.
Out of curiousity (and this may be better as another thread), what do you folks who didn’t like “The Hangover” find funny? I realize that not all humor’s for everyone (personally I can’t stand the Larry David / Jerry Seinfeld / Arrested Development style of humor; just makes me want to beat and strangle the people involved for the most part), so I’m curious what you like.
I thought it was mildly amusing, but I kept waiting for the uproarious bits and they never arrived. I’m sure I cracked a smile, maybe a chuckle here or there, but that’s just not good enough.
FWIW I do not find Zack Galifinakis’ (can’t be bothered to look up correct spelling) sense of humor to be funny at all. Guess I’m not the target for “deadpan moron.”
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We’re the 3 best friends that anyone could have,
we’re the 3 best friends that anyone can have
and we’ll never ever ever ever ever leave each other.
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It was hilarious. Greatest movie ever - no. Hilarious with unexpected twists and turns - yes. And I’m not a youngster either. I am flabbergasted that there are people who get zero laughs from this move. What films do the Borg approve of?
I would watch *The Hangover * again five times in a row before I would sit through the weak sauce of Avatar, for example, one more time.
But Avatar was funnier.
You got me there. But it was that uncomfortable, feeling sorry for the actors kind of funny. Plus, if memory serves, there were no babies jerking off in Avatar.
Well, for originality, I hadn’t seen the “We seem to have misplaced the bridegroom, let’s track backwards and see if we can remember where we left him” before, although it may have been done.
I had seen “Guy fucks up prospective father-in-law’s property” before but I still thought it was funny.
I thought the scene where there was a tiger and a baby in their hotel room and they had no clue how that happened was pretty funny.
I thought a lot of the dialogue was brilliant.
When the guy took along the ring he was going to use to propose to his (nasty) girlfriend later, of course it was obvious that he would lose that ring. But, and I’m paraphrasing: “I lost it! My grandmother’s ring, from the Holocaust!” “They gave out rings?” --that was a funny line.
There was also, “We can’t leave a baby in the room, there’s a tiger in here!” “Hey, it’s not OUR baby…”
I didn’t think that every single thing was funny. Some of the jokes did not inspire me to so much as smile. But a lot of them did.
We rented this for my octogenarian parents. Even they thought it was hilarious!
Why it worked for me is the fact that they didn’t let us see what happened that night, we had to piece it together just like the guys in the film did. Plus, each character has their own way of dealing with an “inconvenience”. The combination of those helped find poor Doug who must’ve drank about 10 gallons of water after getting off that roof.
I thought it was hilarious. My son and I laughed hard watching it together at home.
Maybe some of you are missing your funny bones. Have you played Operation lately?
I’m not a trekkie, but if I’m interpreting “the borg” correctly . . . the borg approves of The Hangover. I’m actually surprised that so many people are agreeing with me that it was a snoozer. Half of my friends on Facebook act like it was divinely revealed.