Being one who looks at each movie as a production of a director's idea and not simply a real-life situation that actually happened, I really appreciated the strange humor that was found in this movie. The movie starts out a little slow with the over-anticipated Bachelor party travel to Las Vegas. But as soon as Alan (Zach Galifianakis), a crazy, somewhat psychotic, loner/soft-souled alleged child molester, soon-to-be brother-in-law, makes his toast to the other party-mates on the roof of the hotel before they go out for the night in Sin City, the movie pretty much takes off. They wake up the next morning to sooooo many ridiculously obsurd articles in the hotel suite that make you wonder how the director thought to place some of them in the movie.
From that moment until the end of the film, you keep discovering new bits of the night before that will absolutely blow your mind. Some of the things that happen in the day of discovery are just too crazy to even imagine how they got themselves into the situations.
I never realized what a difference to the overall experience of a movie the theater audience makes, but it was eye-opening to me in this movie! I saw it twice, and the first time with a packed theater opening weekend at a Sunday matinee showing was one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had in a theater. Everybody was hysterical during the movie, and that just fueled my laugh-out-loud reactions. Reminded me of a similar experience when seeing Knocked Up in theaters!
Phil (Bradley Cooper) is the ring leader for most of the time; trying to strengthen and lift everyone's hope and expectations to find their lost friend. Other characters worth seeing in this one are Stu (Ed Helms) and Jade (Heather Graham). You may remember Ed Helms from doing Correspondent bits on The Daily Show as well as The Office. Those of you who have seen Wedding Crashers
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will recognize Bradley Cooper as the asshole boyfriend of Claire, played by Rachel McAdams. This role is much more audience-pleasing, especially to the crowd who knows exactly what kind of oblivious results a crazy night can produce to deal with in the morning.
....and Heather Graham plays a trashy, Vegas, single-mother stripper. I MISS THE SWINGERS DAYS!!!!
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will recognize Bradley Cooper as the asshole boyfriend of Claire, played by Rachel McAdams. This role is much more audience-pleasing, especially to the crowd who knows exactly what kind of oblivious results a crazy night can produce to deal with in the morning.
....and Heather Graham plays a trashy, Vegas, single-mother stripper. I MISS THE SWINGERS DAYS!!!!
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