When I first saw the preview for "The Hangover", I was reeeeeeally skeptical about it being at all good. All my guy friends were stoked to see it, but I just thought it was going to be a pointless, perverted guy movie. But, I ended up going on a whim to see it with a few friends, and happily, I was mistaken.

For the first half hour or so, the movie starts off really boring. It opens up with 3 guys and a car in the middle of a dessert, explaining on the phone to a soon-to-be-bride that her husband has gone missing. Then BAM, opening credits. It turns into your typical 4 guys going to Vegas to get wasted movie. By then, it was barely holding my attention. However, the movie starts getting good the morning after, when the 3 main characters wake up in a completely trashed hotel room (a chicken walking around, a tiger in the bathroom, and a baby in the closet), unable to locate their best friend (and the groom), Doug. From then on, the adventure becomes more complicated, ridiculous, and hysterical. I won't give away specific details, but the threesome travel all over Vegas, desperately and disastrously trying to find their buddy. Your jaw will hurt from laughing so hard.

Along with some killer jokes and an entertaining plot, The character Alan (played by comedian Zack Galifanakis) steals the movie. We all know that all comedy movies have the slow, stoner like slobby character. Alan is the epitomy of it, but with an added streak of plain weirdness. His jokes are the funniest, and his character easily becomes the favorite. If anything, see the movie just for Galifanakis' performance.

So, get to a theatre soon and see this movie. It's really refreshing to see something this funny, especially in hard economical times like this. I suggest bringing buddies too; you'll leave the theatre quoting the movie the whole way home (and maybe wake up just a little hungover yourself ;] )

Bonuses:
-The sexy Heather Graham playing a very friendly Vegas Stripper
-Cameo by Mike Tyson
-Hilarious photo montage in the credits
-Fairly short- only about an hour and a half in length, so it doesn't become tiresome to watch.