Likely they all became friends in college, when things were more equalized, and their personalities became more polarized after years in the ‘real world’. I don’t think the dull and dork would have a lot of friction. As for the party animal, a lot of us who are more straight laced keep one of those on hand to live vicariously through and use as a scapegoat in our letting loose moments 
i’m a 25 year old white guy with a good sense of humor, like some apatow’s stuff as well, but just don’t understand why everyone thinks this movie is soooooo funny. i mean, i was heh hehing throughout the movie, but there wasn’t really one part that i thought was laugh out loud, side-splitting hilarious which is the way that everyone i know has described this movie. i don’t know maybe i’m more into witty humor and less into stupid gross out slapstick humor. america is dumb.
I thought it was at best “meh” funny.
There were a couple of LOL moments, but mostly I thought it was a bit of a hotch-potch, plotwise. I was hoping for a very tight tie-up of every single aspect of the disaster scenario in which they find themselves. Maybe the DVD extras include this - were scenes removed for lack of time?
In fact, leading with the disaster, and then flashing-back to establish relationships would have had more impact on me at least.
I didn’t think the addition of Roofies into the plot was particularly clever. Since it’s meant to be a regular bachelor party, I think them getting totally fucked up anyway would have been more effective, as the audience would have identified with this more readily.
I didn’t find the paedophile character at all funny - not a great performance, and I wondered if he was funny by association with someone else the actor had done, because I don’t know who the hell he is.
The Chinese gangster character was needlessly OTT and odd.
I am not usually offended, but the Mike Tyson “we all do stupid stuff when we’re fucked up” line was pretty gross, given (pun unintended) what it seemed to allude to.
Weirdly, the two girls I went with enjoyed it much more than I did.
Plus, witness the way the fratboy was acting at the wedding. The whole fratboy persona is no more “the real him” than the devoted family man at the wedding is.
The fratboy part of him was just played up because he was at a bachelor party in Vegas.
Not weird at all – see the drooling over Bradley Cooper above. 
ETA: On further thought, I think another reason might be that the jokes weren’t particularly misogynistic, which comedies in this genre often are. The one girlfriend was a bitch, but she wasn’t presented as an exemplar of all women or anything.
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I didn’t find the paedophile character at all funny - not a great performance, and I wondered if he was funny by association with someone else the actor had done, because I don’t know who the hell he is.
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Its been a while since I’ve seen it, but what paedophile character?
thought the movie was great btw.
No reason is ever actually ever given for it, but Galifianakis couldn’t be within a couple hundred yards of a school by court order, so he’s probably referring to him.
I don’t think he’s a paedophile, but I do think he doesn’t understand how to properly interact with children… not necessarily in a sexual way though. Remember when they were driving in the beginning and he started yelling “VEGAS BABY!” to the car next to them, and then it turns out to be a little girl. I think he’s just a bit of a man-child. There was another scene later in the movie that made me think the same thing but I’m having trouble recalling it.
Or maybe he just masturbated on the airplane at the wrong time…
The pedophile thing- unless I’m missing something, there was nothing else in the movie to suggest he was a pedophile besides that one throwaway line. Maybe he was caught trying to sell drugs to the kids, or something. In fact, the whole predicament they found themselves in was caused by him slipping a mickey into their shots, so I’d think the drug angle is more likely.
I think the restriction has more to do with masturbating on an airplane than it does kids.
this is what i always assumed as well
I didn’t think so. Heck, I can probably pick guys from my fraternity who are similar to each of those characters. Sometimes people become good friends because their personalities complement each other, not because they are clones of the same guy.
Plus it wouldn’t be interesting to watch The Sack Man and his three douchebag pals.
As for not being near a school, I think the point of the throwaway line was that you are supposed to think Allen is this weird guy who through some comedy of errors through his cluelessness and social ineptitude accidently ended up on the sex offenders watchlist.
I don’t think he’s a pedophile, either. I was just saying he was the character jjimm was likely referring to.
There was that one part in the beginning, when they were on the highway, and he’s singing something to a little girl in the back of another car, and then she flips him off.
Opened in Bangkok recently, and we saw it last Saturday. Excellent. Nothing censored here either except for the photos during the credits of the fat guy getting a BJ in the elevator; that was pixellated.
Yes, it was, otherwise the movie would have drawn an automatic NC-17/X Rating.
What happens in Vegas,* stays *in Vegas…
That’s the only part that got pixellated out here by the censors, the BJ in the elevator. I wish they had been merciful and also pixellated out the fat man’s bare ass in other scenes!
They did notice it. They mentioned that one of the mattresses was missing and when they saw workmen getting it off the statue they knew it was from their room.
Saw this, finally. Loved it. Female. Early 50’s. Big Apatow fan (I know it’s not an Apatow movie, but I just thought I’d mention that). Saw it as a double-feature with The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard. which we also thought was very funny. That one would make a great double-feature with Used Cars.