“The Hangover” What Happened in Vegas

What Happened in Vegas

“Hotshots” looks at a movie!

THE HANGOVER is a hilarious comedy about what you don’t want to happen in Las Vegas.

I mean, to you, of course. If it happens to four other guys, then not only do you want it to happen, but you also want to see it in this movie.
Perhaps even more than once, it’s that funny.

The movie begins in the desert outside Las Vegas, and Phil is on the phone talking to Tracy back in California, who is about to get married in five hours.

Phil says, “We lost Doug,” and when Tracy asks for an explanation, Phil says, “We can’t find Doug.”

Doug is the groom, you see, and when Tracy points out to the best man Phil that the ceremony is in five hours, Phil says, “Yeah, that’s not going to happen.”

Then we get a title that says “Two Days Earlier,” and we see what happened to Doug, the groom; Phil, the best man; Stu, a good friend of theirs; and Alan, the bride’s brother.

Well, not exactly. We see their preparations for the bachelor party in Las Vegas, we see them leaving California and arriving in Vegas, where they decide to get a suite for $4200 a night, we see them go up onto the roof of the hotel to drink a toast, and we see them say, “To a night the four of us will never forget.”

Then we see them wake up the next morning in their suite, except that none of them can remember what happened the night before.

Now, that wouldn’t be too bad, except that the suite is trashed, there is a chicken walking around, there is a tiger in the bathroom, there is a baby in the closet, Stu is missing a front tooth, and Doug is nowhere to be found.

And then as they try to retrace their steps to figure out what happened and to find Doug, everything goes from bad to worse to you won’t believe how bad it can get.

The three men find new surprises all along the way, the story comes full circle back to that opening scene in the desert, and luckily for us it doesn’t end there, but continues on into the closing credits where we finally learn what happened in Vegas.

THE HANGOVER is disastrous and balls-out hilarious.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”