elvis wrote: The other thing for me was (and I'll probably get flamed to high hell for this) the humour was decidedly un-American. This is not a slander on America nor Americans, but traditional Hollywood/SNL style humour I find typically to be blatant, obvious, in-your-face and completely un-funny. What was different about Hangover was not so much the humour itself, but the delivery. Much of it was quick and there was no "pause" moments where the director was leaving obvious time gaps for people to catch up with the jokes. Jokes were made, but they were done quickly and the scenes moved on whether the audience was ready or not. For that reason it just felt like it was attempting to appeal to an audience with more than the average intelligence of a 12 year old, which seems to be the target for most Will Ferrell, Jack Black and co movies of late.
I must have been either too American and/or too stupid to catch all that subtle and quick-witted humour!
please. Neither SNL nor gross-out humor defines good American comedy, and this movie frankly had plenty of both (despite your claims to the contrary). There was little of anything smart/sophisticated about the jokes in this film. I'd easily lump this one right in with most former SNL/Daily Show cast-type movies - although some of them (Anchorman, Austin Powers, 40 Year Old Virgin, etc.) have been MUCH smarter and funnier.
Ed Helms is a big name star, as is Heather Graham. Ed Helms played Ed Helms, and Graham did nothing of consequence. The only person I thought was worth watching in this film was Zach Galifianakis, who did the best job with the character and had 90% of the genuinely funny dialogue.The other factor for me was the lack of any real big name / big budget actors. It's getting to the point these days where you can pretty much figure out how a character is going to end up in a film based on the actor playing the role, due to massive type casting.
Not sure what you mean by "similarly themed," but if you mean stuff like the Judd Apatow/ Todd Phillips films I certainly can't agree with this at all either, sorry.Certainly better than any similarly themed movie in the last 10 years (of which there are plenty).
