And to commemorate the film, a “mixologist” at the Lebua Hotel, where the scenes with Paul Giamatti were shot, has created the Hangovertini. Pricey at 490 baht (US$16).
I laughed quite a bit, but the movie fell short of the mark of the first film, IMHO.
Bill Clinton did visit the set, I’ve read. I’d be amazed if they didn’t film something with him. Maybe his scene will show up in the DVD extras? Just bringing back Mike Tyson for a celebrity cameo was lame.
Liam Neeson actually filmed scenes as the tattoo artist, but wasn’t available when they had to do a reshoot, so they refilmed all of his scenes with the other actor, Wiki says.
I hated, hated, hated Alan. He really is the most annoying, self-indulgent, tactless man-child on the entire planet. His funny-to-aggravating ratio is something like 1:20. Grrr.
Mr. Chow, on the other hand, was hilarious. Loved him. Notice how he disdainfully waved away the greeters in the restaurant lobby? Great shtick.
Stu’s bride was a knockout, but yeah, I thought about AIDS or other nasty STDs too. Get tested, dude, and quick.
I caught the Saigon execution photo reference too - had a real “WTF - was that just what I thought it was?” moment. Maybe the cleverest thing in the whole movie.
Finally, thanks, Siam Sam, for your local insights.
Thanks. 
On Mr. Chow, the local paper ran a news-agency piece on the actor, Ken Jeong. Quite an interesting guy. He’s a medical doctor! Good info here.
One Night in Bangkok Can Lead to Quite a ‘Hangover’ for Thailand
Excerpt: **"Thailand’s tourism chief hasn’t seen the Warner Bros. box-office smash ‘The Hangover: Part II,’ which is based in Bangkok. Maybe that’s just as well.
"‘What’s it like?’ asked Supol Sripan, general-director of the country’s tourism department, on a recent Thursday afternoon.
“Well, it shows his nation’s capital as chock-full of drug-dealing mobsters, drunken bar fights and hazily remembered sex in the back rooms of brothels. In the movie there are also car chases through teeming streets, and a chain-smoking monkey.”
“‘Hmm,’ Mr. Supol sighed. ‘Well, I suppose it’s true. We have all those things’.”**
I agree with the “same as the first… while also being as funny as”, but also bothered by the comments mentioned above that (no spoiler tags below so stop reading if you haven’t seen it):
- Teddy’s missing a finger, c’est la vie. Even if it doesn’t affect his cello playing or surgical career, he’s still missing a finger- that’s bad in and of itself, plus it didn’t occur to anybody (other than Teddy) to put it on ice when you’re going to the ice machine anyway?
- Alan needs to die. If there’s a third one, it should start with Alan’s death and involve a misadventure in spreading his ashes (which perhaps are mixed with roofies and blow into the guys’ nostrils or whatever), but he needs to die. He is an oxygen thief and in a movie series whose comedy is based on unbelievable moments the most unbelievable would be that anybody would ever again associate with that asshole.
(Speaking of asshole: Zach Galifianakis comes across in interviews as just as much of one as Alan, just minus the living at home and the drugs part (to the best of my knowledge). I remember his lead voice in the auto da fa at Mel Gibson playing the tattoo artist because, you know, Mel is woman abusing nutjob… unlike Mike Tyson, who was a major supporting character in the first and a ‘very special cameo’ in this one… WTF?)
- In addition to the HIV and Og knows what else risks for Stu, there’s the fact he just got willingly fucked up the ass and cried for joy and climaxed while bottoming. That in and of itself is enough reason to postpone the wedding while sorting some things out… I really don’t think most straight guys would do that. (Admittedly I’m basing this on the fact that I’m gay and I can’t imagine letting a bar prostitute [or anyone else I just met] bugger me nor can I imagine having sex with a woman while drunk and drugged up. Maybe in Hangover 3 he’ll have left his wife for Teddy when they have their misadventures while spreading Alan’s ashes (because, if I haven’t mentioned it, Alan needs to die).
Whatever criticisms I have though, I liked it a lot and totally recommend it. Lots of laugh out loud moments even on DVD, and I can’t believe they actually went there with the V.C. execution pose… but damn, I’m glad they did! Black-comedy genius in just a few frames.
Speaking of the DVD- I rented it from Redbox so I’m guessing the copy I got was released solely for the rental market, but damn is it cheap. Not only does it not include extras, but the cheapass thing doesn’t even include Scene Selection! (You can skip ahead, but can’t go straight to Chow’s OD scene again.)
Most unexpected treat of the movie: I’ve never had any great desire to see Thailand in general or Bangkok in particular, but now I do. I’m not a beach person, and on those rare occasions I feel the need for nature I prefer the mountains, but dear Og that place was beautiful; the scenes with the cliffs and the water looked like a CGI from a fantasy movie, yet Siam Sam says above they don’t even do it justice- that’s on my bucket list now. (While there must track down Chang and Eng’s birthplace as I understand it’s got a statue and museum as well.)
A personal connection I thought was funny: the worst by far/nothing else came remarkably close flight I’ve ever been on was from Atlanta to Philadelphia during a storm in the early 1990s; some of the flight attendants said it was the worst flight they’d ever been on. I came closer-than-this to hoarking (didn’t, but came closer-than-this) not from the motion, which was bad enough, but from the hoarking going on around me including the passenger next to me. The plane circled the Philadelphia airport three times before it could land- had it not landed the third time it was going to have to land in Baltimore. It was like being on a ship at sea on the outskirts of a hurricane.
Reason for mentioning: I listened to Billy Joel’s Downeaster Alexaabout 6 times during that flight because I figured it was as close as I was likely to come to being on a stormy sea and I needed a shanty. When Alan started playing it in this it brought back great memories.
I’ll say it again too: Krabi province, where they filmed the beach/hotel scenes, looks much better in person. Krabi is renowned for its limestone cliffs. It’s the home of Railay Beach, considered by many the best in Thailand, and I could not disagree; that’s not even the one they filmed on. But we also have mountains up North if you need a break from that. 
Not heard of a Chang and Eng statue or museum though. The wife’s not heard of that either.
P.S.: Earlier above, I mentioned “The White Lion Bar [in the movie] is actually a nice little place called Boosabar.” Since writing that, the long-running Boosabar has shut down and is now the location of Dr BJ’s BJ salon, mentioned in another thread.
The statue is located somewhere in Samut Songkhram province near their birthplace, though to be honest I’ve no idea where that is in relation to anything else in Thailand.
Out of curiosity, are any present or current Thai royal residences, or palaces royal or non-royal, open to the public?
Ah, I see. Thanks. See? You can never know everything about where you live. Samut Songkhram province borders Bangkok to the west and is on the coast.
Present Thai palaces are off limits. However, one of the biggest tourist attractions is the Temple of the Emerald Buddha/Grand Palace complex in the heart of Old Bangkok (Rattanakosin). That palace complex is a musuem now. And IIRC, a ticket to there also gets you into Vimanmek Palace (more commonly called Vimanmek Mansion) not too terribly far away, the former residence of King Rama V (the little boy in The King and I) and I believe the largest teakwood structure in the world.
Just watched the DVD a couple days ago. Alan and Chow had the best lines, but I want more Chow. I thought the first one was funnier, but I saw it in a theater.
Alls I know about Bangkok is what I read in Bangkok 8 so something that bugged me about the movie is how easy it was for the guys to get around, to find places. I suppose that’s because everything happened within a fairly small area, but it still bugged me.
I saw the DVD last week. I’d say it’s about the same as Ocean’s Twelve was to Ocean’s Eleven, pretty inferior.
Somebody said “Holeeee Shit!” in every scene, just in case, y’know, ya needed guidance.