Posts tagged Las Vegas
The Hangover Part II – Movie Trailer
Jun 2nd
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
In The Hangover Part II, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned. What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in Bangkok can’t even be imagined.
“Get Him to the Greek” Self-Indulgent Knockoff
Jun 10th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
Self-Indulgent Knockoff
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
GET HIM TO THE GREEK starring Jonah Hill and Russell Brand is a major disappointment if you were expecting something original from the team that made the 2008 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL.
On the other hand, as I have been saying for years, “Hollywood has run out of ideas,” and what can you expect when almost every other new movie is a sequel, a prequel, a remake, or even “based on the characters” from another movie as this one is?
This movie should have a title in the closing credits that says “Based on the premise of the 1982 My Favorite Year,” which starred Peter O’Toole and Mark Linn-Baker.
You be the judge: Leonard Maltin says in his MOVIE GUIDE that the earlier film is “about a young writer on TV’s top comedy show in 1954 who’s given the job of chaperoning that week’s guest star, screen swashbuckler and off-screen carouser Alan Swann.”
This film is about a record-company intern who’s given the job of chaperoning a British rock star from London to the Los Angeles Greek Theater in 72 hours, where he is scheduled to give a concert, and the rock star’s name is Aldous Snow. Same initials. Coincidence? Or intentional?
Anyway, the record-company executive is played by Sean “P. Diddy” Puff Daddy Do-wah Diddy Combs, and he tells his staff, “We got to thicken our revenue stream.”
Aaron Green suggests the idea of putting on a 10th anniversary concert at the Greek with Aldous Snow, and once that Snow agrees, Aaron is given the task of getting Snow from his home in London to Los Angeles in time for the concert.
And, of course, nothing goes as Aaron plans.
Snow believes that the concert is in two months and that Aaron chenged the date on him. So, Snow would rather party than catch a flight.
To keep Snow sober, Aaron drinks all of Snow’s booze in his flask and smokes all of Snow’s weed.
A stop in New York City for an appearance on the “Today” show doesn’t go well at all.
Snow asks Aaron to do something for him that is illegal as well as disgusting.
And then Snow changes their flight to go to Las Vegas so he can visit his father.
GET HIM TO THE GREEK is not much more than a self-indulgent knockoff.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
“The Hangover” What Happened in Vegas
Jun 9th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
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.”