*** Competition Closed *** *** Congrats to Peter, Sam and Emer *** *** who pick up a copy of G.I. Joe on dvd *** We have a huge sack of goodness for all you couch potatoes this week. So much in fact that you’ll be hard pushed to leave you settee until next weeks installment. We even have a competition to win one of this weeks movie releases, so be sure to enter to be in with a chance to win G.I. Joe - The Rise of Cobra!
Certainly not I. The Hangover is not a particularly funny movie. It’s no American Pie. It’s no Porkies. It’s no Superbad. In fact it’s not really sure what it is. It doesn’t know whether to be a crude, juvenile buddy movie or a cleverer guy bonding, road movie. It tries to straddle both, and fails. The Hangover is a Las Vegas-set comedy centred around a bachelor party gone wrong. Three groomsmen lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him. The writing is often amateurish, and gives the cast and director very little to work with. It’s chockablock with scenarios that a 4 year old could’ve dreamt up. Lots of contrived situations and predictable stock characters. And I suppose it doesn’t help when you cast actors who wouldn’t know a punchline if it jumped up and bit them. The casting is … There’s more
