Last summer I had high expectations for Pineapple Express. I envisioned this magical melding of low-brow Cheech & Chong comedy with beautiful & nuanced mise en scene. What I got instead was this bi-polar over-long mess with sincere intentions yet few big laughs.Though it is clearly no great piece of art, The Hangover succeeds in many of the ways that Pineapple failed. The title sequence alone shows more skill than Brett Ratner's entire filmography. And fear not - it's funny. Howlingly so. Filthy, dirty jokes done intelligently.
Hopefully this film will lead to Zach Galifianakis overtaking Dane Cook as America's #1 comic. OK. Is that asking too much? How about this: Hopefully this film leads to someone allowing Zach to headline his own film? It'll probably bomb with pop audiences but at least it will exist.
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