1:00-3:00 pretty much.
There’s a stereotype about naked Chinese guys hiding in car trunks and attacking people with tire irons when the trunk is opened?
THAT is supposed to be funny? No wonder I didn’t remember it. That is seriously about as funny as watching C-SPAN to me.
I was just about to post this! It’s exactly as unfunny as I remembered it being.
I found it disturbingly unfunny, and I was appalled that the audience in the theater with me laughed the hardest on the lines involving insults, ugly slurs and every -ism (the bad sort) under the sun. It’s like the worst possible traits of the most offensive sorts of people, rolled into two hours with not a single character who’s worth caring about. Blech.
Superbad is a movie about teenaged boys conspiring and scheming to get some girls drunk so that they can rape them. I’m still working out why that’s funny at all.
To me, comedy works better with unsympathetic characters. Otherwise, it’s pandering.
A story is not what it is about, but how it is about it. In the proper context, everything is funny, including irresponsibility, addiction, cannibalism, genocide, and date rape.
I think it’s a funny, if extremely stupid, movie. I really enjoy the undisguised hatred Bradley Cooper’s character has for Zach Galifianakis’ character. Ed Helms’ song at the piano is wonderful, as is Zach Galifianakis’ “three best friends” song. The Ken Jeong stuff is hilarious.
Oh, subjectivity. Indeed. Sadly, I can’t explain why I think this stuff is funny. None of it is brilliant. At all.
I hate the Mike Tyson part. I don’t think the masturbating baby bit is all that funny.
I didn’t really mean the actual moment when he emerged from the trunk, I mean that the character’s entire comedic value for the duration of the movie seemed to be summed up by:
- He has a funny accent
- He’s effeminate
- Therefore, he’s ridiculous!
I happen to think the actor who played that role is very talented, so I was mostly pretty amused and able to enjoy the film. I’m just, generally, not entertained by the ‘‘effeminate men are hilarious’’ theme that runs through a lot of movies of this genre. I don’t think there is anything intrinsically funny about being gay or acting feminine.
This thread is like Remedial Humor for Aspergers 100. Didn’t anyone ever hear the axiom that you can’t explain a joke without sucking all the humor out of it? If you didn’t find the movie funny, that’s perfectly fine. To try and mount a case that the movie is objectively unfunny is both laughable and sad at the same time. It moves into the embarassing range when you try to position yourself above it all, like you can’t even imagine how the unwashed masses could see the humor.
The problem with this movie is that it’s stupid at it’s very core. Superbad is about growing up and all the crazy shit that happens might be exaggerated for humor sake, but it makes sense. Hot Tub Time Machine has a stupid premise, but at it’s heart, it’s sweet and funny. When you dig through the layers of The Hangover, it’s just more stupidity. Stupid characters you hate behaving in stupid, inexplicable ways, and then the big twist is that the guy has been up on a roof in Las Vegas for like 24 hours. He’s not dead? Nobody else noticed him up there? They got an entire mattress there without security noticing? The payoff for sitting through all that bullshit was to have your intelligence insulted–not just insulted but spit on and kicked in the nads.
But what if you really didn’t see the humor - couldn’t even imagine how it could be funny? The only way I can see it is to try to recall why I used to think the 3 Stooges were funny, but I can’t reproduce my state of mind from that far back. I think it’s sort of like party clown humor. When you were a kid, you probably thought they were hilarious and wanted one for your next birthday party. But if now as a parent you hire one, even if they are amusing, are they nearly as funny to you as the kids seem to find him or her? I doubt it.
I think the hangover represents an evolution of the genre of slapstick and stupid guy humor, but I also think it is still firmly within that genre.
Thank you for making me not regret seeing the rest of the movie. Seriously. I’ve always been a little curious about how it ended, but not enough to sit through another minute of it.
Yes, yes, we understand how very mature you are.
Wow, first time ever I have to FF on a 3mn clip. There’s not one funny bit in that whole clip, acting is bad, I’m amazed that simulating a baby to masturbate would ever be mentioned as a high point of this movie. Typical Appatow crap, I dont know how he does it but almost all of the movies I’ve seen where he is involved turn out to be totally unfunny frat house material. The only exceptions come from good directors like Adam McKay, director of Anchorman or Talladega Nights, those were definitely good (especially Anchorman).
I enjoyed it,
the tiger ripping up daddy’s pride and joy…great
Gay naked gangster locked in trunk…freaking hiliarious
Pissing into mike tysons pool - death wish
It was cool…
Judd Apatow had nothing to do with The Hangover.
Who is hailing this as “one of the funniest movies ever”? I’ve (thankfully) never met a single person who has said anything like that. I’ve met people who have liked it, but they don’t give it quite that level of props. Anyway, this thread title is about 100 times funnier than the movie. You literally have no idea what was even supposed to be funny about it? Ha ha! Such hyperbole amuses me.
Yes. Seriously now, different strokes and all of that.
You obviously don’t watch those morning call-in shows. Those are hil-AR-ious! My response to this movie from an earler thread:
Pretty much agree with you except I think watching it is slightly less interesting than cleaning on a Sunday.
Well, some chick on my facebook for one thing. About 3 times a month she posts that she’s watching it again. Then a little later she posts about how much she loves it. Then a little later she posts about how she could watch it a thousand more times and it still makes her ROFLMAO…and on and on and on. In fact, she is the whole reason I watched it. I thought it must be pretty damn funny for her to be constantly watching it and praising it. That’s the last time I listen to her about what movie to see…
I’m so glad you used “literally”. I was literally scratching my head, wondering if you literally meant it wasn’t actually literally funny.
I literally peed my pants laughing… but not at “The Hangover”.
Well, if I’m being literal, anyway…
THIS is what’s wrong with modern society/zeitgeist/sitz-im-leben/lederhosen/whatEVER.
btw, my man/laptop/book bag has a nametag sticker on it. I wrote:
It’s a
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Indiana Jones has one.
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