In the case of The Hangover, Phillips made a decent diversion, but no classic; like its heroes you'll have a good time, then forget most of it when you wake up the following morning. It's a movie, not a film.

| Sep 18, 2017

... I went in to The Hangover with low expectations but ended up laughing more times than I thought I would.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

The Hangover isn't painful to watch. If friends drag you to this movie, you won't hate them afterwards. But maybe it'll seem a lot funnier if you are drinking.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 11, 2009

The Hangover is funny but not deeply so. There's a difference between funny incidents piled up in a line and people who make us laugh because of who they are.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2009

The director and his screenwriters have come up with the funniest film to appear in ages. It avoids the predictable crudity and silly laddishness (well, almost) you'd expect, and delights with zinging one-liners and charming performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2009

This is an above par effort, excellently played and just naughty enough to be thought daring as well as amusingly spiteful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2009

The lads duly lurch from one bewildering crisis to another.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2009

It turns out to be every bit as crass, offensive and incorrect as you'd expect, but it's also - gulp! - really very funny an awful lot of the time, as well as bizarrely gripping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Everything works here; the characters are funny, the set-ups are funny, the lines are funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2009

A furiously paced, inventive and flat-out hilarious take on a tried-and-tested formula. An exemplary bromantic comedy that doesn't sacrifice heart in pursuit of laughs, maintaining plenty of the former and a superabundance of the latter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2009

The Hangover serves up a steady stream of big, dumb laughs, but you may feel a gnawing sense of guilt right afterwards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Laugh? Well, at least, on a tough Tuesday in Tube-meltdown London, one chuckled.

| Jun 12, 2009

Some very funny, very non-PC dialogue is thrown about like a game of catch. The actors, virtually unknown, are terrific.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2009

A wee-inducingly funny bromance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2009

This is top stuff. There's all the carnage, baps and humiliation you could want from a 15-rated comedy but it's pegged around a smart plot that actually holds up. Take out the laughs, and The Hangover would still work as a gripping, if barmy thriller.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2009

You might be embarrassed by laughing at some of the silliness, but don't be: Everyone else will be cracking up, too.

| Jun 11, 2009

Unlike last years rather uninspiring What Happens in Vegas, the hysterical The Hangover actually ends up doing Sin City proud.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2009

"The Hangover" pretty much demands you leave your Political Correctness Cap at home and urges you to eschew your Thinking Cap as well.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2009

When the years have passed and the buzz has worn off, I honestly feel that people will look back at The Hangover and wonder what they laughed at in 2009. It's the Zima of movie comedies.

| Jun 6, 2009

The movie smells like a hit, but honestly: Helms excepted, did it need to be quite so blandly cast, or quite so lamely raunchy?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 5, 2009