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The Hangover Part II: The-Not-So-Hilarious Sequel to the Hilarious Hangover

Posted on June 3, 2011 Written by ripitup

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The Hangover Part 2 starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis & Justin Bartha
The Hangover Part 2 starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis & Justin Bartha

The Plot – with spoilers for the first movie

This time Doug (Justin Bartha) – the groom-to-be that the “wolfpack” Alan (Zach Galifianakis), Stu (Ed Helms) and Phil (Bradley Cooper) lost (in The Hangover), is a happily married man. It has been two years since the ultimate Vegas adventure where the gang had got roofied, ended up waking with a severe memory loss, minus a groom, minus a teeth (from Stu), plus a tiger, and plus a baby Moreover Stu had gotten married to the mother of the baby, a beautiful prostitute (played by Heather Graham).

Somehow, they had made it to the wedding.

 

This time Stu is getting married in Thailand, to a beautiful Thai bride. Having learned his lesson, he is vehemently against a traditional bachelor party. Despite Phil’s objections, Phil, Stu, Alan (despite a very unwilling Stu), Doug and the 16 year-old, Harvard pre-med Teddy -Stu’s brother-in-law-to-be- (Mason Lee) fly to Thailand and meet the girls. The problem is, Alan has absolutely hated Teddy. But Stu naively thinks everything is in control, since there won’t be a party. But Phil talks him into having one drink at the beach. One beer can’t hurt right?

 

But the next day, Phil wakes up on the floor of a dodgy hotel room. Alan’s head was shaven and Phil has a ridiculous tattoo on his face. There is no sign of Doug, and they find a finger with a Harvard ring on it. There is also a weird monkey in the room. They can’t remember anything and Stu is about to have a heart attack over what might have happened to Teddy. Oh, and they find Chow -the ridiculous guy from the first movie (Ken Jeong). What the hell are they going to do now?

 

They establish that Doug is safe and sound at the hotel, so it is up to the three of them to re-track their actions from last night, find Teddy, deal with Chow and Chow’s enemies, the havoc they caused in Bangkok streets, monks and more…

 

 

Is it a match for The Hangover?

Writing a good comedy is really hard. Writing a comedy such as The Hangover is even harder. I laughed my butt off through the entire movie, and I don’t usually like it when things get crude (except maybe when Todd Philips writes it). So undeniably, my expectations were high. While I had a good time at the theater last night, I was pretty disappointed that I didn’t get any laughing cramps.

Now, the movie is entertaining. I am not going to say I didn’t have any fun. I liked the references made to the first movie. “It has happened again…”, “The roof!”. The drug dealing, smoking monkey was fun to watch. Watching the gang being beaten by a monk was funny. But…. The magic wasn’t just there this time. It was cruder, darker and this time Zach Galifianakis annoyed me most of the time. And am I the only one who thinks Stu definitely needs some therapy?

It is definitely watchable. It is just not that great.

Currently 7.0/10 on IMDB. I give it a 5.0. If I don’t compare it to the first, it gets a 6.0.

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Favorite Scenes (Minor Spoilers)!

–          When Chow “dies”, and how they deal with it.

–          The entire chase scene where Chow drives.

–          Parking of the speed boat

–          Stu’s song.

 

 

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Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel & Robert De Niro

Posted on December 25, 2010 Written by ripitup

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Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel & Robert De Niro
Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel & Robert De Niro. Image via screenrant.com

Plot

Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is your average, messy and not-so-lucrative writer – until he starts taking a pill. This pill gives him the chance to become the best version of himself – he becomes ultra productive, stylish, attractive, smart and successful.

But of course things can’t go on so well forever and soon Eddie is the target of hitmen and he also has to deal with drawbacks such as short-term memory loss.

Reasons to see it

  • I love a good thriller and I really liked the story idea. It is based Alan Glynn’s 2002 book The Dark Fields
  • It was adapted to screen by Lexie Dixon- who has written some of my favorite movies – The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 version starring Pierce Brosnan), Hairspray (2007 version with John Travolta), Pay It Forward (a lovely Kevin Spacey effort that features Jon Bon Jovi as a violent husband), Just Like Heaven (starring Mark Ruffalo & Reese Witherspoon)….I just realized I have seen a lot of her work – she should get her own individual post.
  • The Cast.
  • I am a writer so I am just drawn to stories about writers. The part in the trailer where he finishes a novel in 4 days….Ah, the dream…
  • The Director: Neil Burger. He directed the lovely drama The Lucky Ones starring Tim Robbins and Rachel McAdams, as well as one of my favorite Edward Norton movies- The Illusionist.

After seeing the movie: LOVED IT!

 

Before deciding whether you’ll like this movie or not, just remember:

1)      I am a writer. So:

2)      I wish I had a magic pill that would make me smarter, more productive and creator so that I could do everything I wanted to do with my writing and my life. I also wouldn’t mind the extra shot of skills that would make me richer. Yes, it is a fantasy and I’d never take a drug to accomplish this. But I joined Limitless for the ride, and lived the fantasy (and the nightmare), without suffering any side effects myself.

3)      I’d have loved to have written a story like Limitless.

4)      I like Bradley Cooper.

5)      Robert De Niro’s name does make me want to check out the movie.

6)      I think Abbie Cornish is my generation’s Charlize Theron.

7)      I love entertaining thrillers!

8)      I expected to have fun watching this movie, and I had a blast. Will watch it again.

Final notes:

Entertainment Value: 9/10.

The Ending: 10/10.

IMDB User Rating: 7.3/10.

Give it a shot!

 


 

 

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Case 39 starring Renee Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, Ian McShane and Jodelle Ferland

Posted on November 3, 2010 Written by ripitup

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Case 39 starring Renee Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, Ian McShane and Jodelle Ferland
Case 39 starring Renee Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, Ian McShane and Jodelle Ferland

Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) is a Social Services worker, dealing with abused kids. She is too involved in her work to date, even though she is not exactly oblivious to her friend/child psychologist Doug (Bradley Cooper)’s attempts.

Her crazy workload however gets even crazier when she is assigned her 39th case. Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle  Ferland) has the typical symptoms of an abused child: dropping grades, social withdrawal, falling asleep in class…So Emily goes to talk her parents, Edward (Callum Keith Rennie) and Margaret (Kerry O’Malley) who do not seem normal or loving at all. She confides in with her boss (Adrian Lester) and her cop friend (Ian McShane) Mike but they are both unwilling to dig deeper into the case without certain proof.

However she is able to prove the abuse when she gets a terrified call from the girl. She calls Mike and rushes into the house where the parents are trying to kill her. With Mike’s arrival, they manage to arrest the parents and save the girl.

Both of course when your “villains” are sent to an institute in straight jackets pretty much in the beginning of the film, and the abused girl is just all so nice, clever and perceptive, you do know your real villain is out and about. But of course every horror/thriller has at least one stupid or extra- naïve person and in this movie it is Emily. She feels so sorry for the girl that when she insists on living with Emily, our lovely social worker petitions to make it happen. She does get to be her foster parent until new arrangements can be made and their heavenly relationship is about to get very disrupted when Lilith  starts to show her true colors and endangers everyone around her.

I did call Emily naïve and stupid, because you don’t just welcome abused children into your home. I am not saying she could have seen she was a psycho but at least she should have been smart enough not to start living with a girl whose parents tried to burn her in a oven, for crying out loud! She was meant to be mentally disturbed and well, of course without Emily’s stupidity, we may not have had a story.

But then again, it would be perfectly OK not to have shot this movie. It is not bad but it is just so not necessary. And no matter how many fine actors you put in a film, supernatural horror movies usually end up being a disappointment and this one is no exception.

Oh, and if you got suspicious that Bradley Cooper’s name was credited after the little girl and Ian McShane, you were right. That was not a good sign on how much screen time Bradley would end up having in total. Written by Ray Wright, directed by Christian Alvart.2009.

6.1 on IMDB. I just might rate it slightly higher than Kevin Costner’s The New Daughter and Simon Baker’s Not Forgotten as Case 39 wasn’t that ridiculous but still, 6.1 is just too much. 5.5 from me.

The moment there was a mention of possession and demons, Case 39 just lost (bored) me.

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