Oh God, My Head.

Todd Phillips' The Hangover, a film that has scored very highly with critics and got test screening responses so good there's a sequel already in the works, naturally the expectations are raised.

So how does our favouite Old School helmer fare after Starsky & Hutch and School For Scoundrels?
Amazingly poorly in actual fact, School For Scoundrels was a low ebb for Phillips, 5/10 as there were some very funny moments, and some amazingly awful stuff, but this, oh boy.
It starts out amazingly slowly, introducing the characters 1 by 1, the groom, a simple character as he has nothing to do in the film, he's lost throughout the runtime, then Zach Galifianakis Alan, the Seth Rogen-ey fat and fuzzy guy who is dumb but lovable, he's dumb for sure, but like all the characters there's not one moment you give a flying fuck about them or their situations.
Bradley Cooper plays Phil, the strong leader of the gang, cool calm and collected, and he's so incredibly dull, he doesn't have a 'funny' moment, let alone something that you can laugh at as a normal human being.
Finally there's Ed Helms, Andy from the amazing Office USA, who is a boring dentist out in Vegas to let loose, who wakes up missing a tooth and married to Heather Graham's Stripper.

Cliches abound and yet there's not a single point where it turns to the original, or god forbid actually funny. This kind of comedy is similar to I Love You, Man, it seems funny but doesn't have the money moment where you draw the laugh from the crowd, they just laugh cos they know it's supposed to be a comedy.
At 3 points I laughed, 1. On Heather Graham takign Ed Helms' grandmother's holocaust ring Zach's character remarks "They gave out rings at the Holocaust?" Kinda funny, not really hysterical.
2. Todd Phillips' cameo, not anywhere near as good as "I'm here for the gangbang" but it's kinda funny.
3. Mike Tyson's Phil Collins moment, it's overused in the trailer but it's kinda funny.

Nothing else is funny, Ken Jeong is dull and laughs at fatness too often, the Love Guru laugh to remind people it's a comedy syndrome, same as the POW guy from Step Brothers and his sidekick in the police force laughing at their 'jokes', so unbelievably bad and unfunny.

The physical humour is limited in originality and amazingly dull, no real clever moments, absolutely nothing is good in this film, I cannot stress this enough, this is a BAAAAAAAAAAAAD fucking film, absolutely dreadful, avoid like the plague.
1/10