It wasn't that bad and we laughed a lot.

| Aug 31, 2021

If you want to see everything you saw in Hangover, only transplanted to Bangkok, with a drug-peddling simian and a missing human finger, then Hangover 2 is the movie for you.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2019

The wickedly entertaining characters and actors each leave audiences in stitches as they go through the motions of an equally entertaining--albeit redone--plot that will thrill die-hard fans of the original.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017

It might not be quite as much fun as the first film but it's fun enough - and that's all that counts. Plus, there's a monkey in it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2011

Unless moviegoers themselves are willing to shoulder some of the blame, it's useless to try and figure out why The Hangover Part II is so bad. The film only exists because, after the hilarious 2009 movie broke box-office records for an R-rated comedy...

Full Review | Jun 8, 2011

Phillips and company are treading water, going through the motions in order to pick up a quick paycheck before moving onto something else.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 3, 2011

The Hangover Part II isn't a dud, exactly -- some of it is very funny, and there are a few memorable jolts and outlandish dirty moments. But it feels, at times, like a routine adventure film set overseas.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2011

The Hangover Part II sees the same ingredients shaken up in the kaleidoscope, but a less attractive and far less amusing pattern emerges.

| May 28, 2011

The missing person, the seamy urban setting, the gradual accretion of clues: The Hangover films are, essentially, hard-boiled crime stories spun into comic depravity.

| May 27, 2011

Unless moviegoers themselves are willing to shoulder some of the blame, it's useless to try and figure out why The Hangover Part II is so bad. The film only exists because, after the hilarious 2009 movie...

Full Review | May 27, 2011

About halfway through, Galifianakis wails, "I just wanted things to say the same!" If Warner Brothers were being completely honest, that'd be 'The Hangover Part II''s ad line.

| May 27, 2011

I can't dismiss the ugliness behind many of its antics.

| Original Score: D+ | May 27, 2011

Director Phillips whips along proceedings at break-neck speed, perhaps in the hope that we won't notice how all the quirks we loved the first time are nothing like as funny the second time

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2011

I can't believe how precisely everything does happen again, except that what was fresh and surprising in Las Vegas turns rancid and predictable in Bangkok, where yet another wedding is scheduled to take place.

| May 27, 2011

It's not with a sense of delight that you realise you're on exactly the same ride again but with dawning dismay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2011

Directed, like the wildly successful first film, by Todd Phillips, it airlifts the original characters, premise, and story structure out of Vegas and plonks them down in Bangkok in near-identical form, save for a few instances of ante-upping.

| May 26, 2011

It's a tribute to the filmmakers, particularly director and co-writer Todd Phillips, that the best way to approach The Hangover Part II is to talk about what it isn't. It isn't a typical sequel, either a watered-down encore or a muddled [extension].

| Original Score: B+ | May 26, 2011

Whereas The Hangover was borderline outrageous as it stacked one mesmerizing vulgarity atop the next, this second exercise in bad manners (presumably of four) feels rote in comparison.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2011

Those who enjoyed The Hangover for its gross out insanity will appreciate this film, and it is possessed of a stronger ending than its predecessor, however anyone looking for novelty or a fresh take will be disappointed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 26, 2011

The premise and the execution are numbingly familiar, and what was funny and unexpected about a guys-bonding-under-pressure movie the first time around becomes: ''Are they kidding? Again?''

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 26, 2011