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SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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 The Chicago-Sun Times's Roger Ebert is also being especially kind to another comedy that several other critics are lampooning. "The Hangover is a funny movie," he writes, "flat out, all the way through. Its setup is funny. Every situation is funny. Most of the dialogue is funny almost line by line." That's not the way many other critics see it. Writes Lisa Kennedy in the Denver Post: "Consider it the movie equivalent of saying, 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity.' When it comes to The Hangover, it's not the filth, it's the unrelenting stupidity that makes this comedy oppressive." Clearly Michael Sragow in the Baltimore Sun is of two minds about the movie, writing, "The Hangover is like an infernal comedy machine. Surrender your soul to its foul mesh of cheap cleverness and vulgarity. and you howl like a delighted demon. Resist, and you feel all sense and sensibility being crushed in its cogs." Nevertheless, many critics, like Ebert, find much to like about the movie. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle is one of them. He writes: "This comedy, though hysterically funny for over an hour, loses some steam in its last act. But it never comes close to derailing and never does the fatal thing of becoming dishonest and sappy, as so many comedies (and all sitcoms) do." Liam Lacey in the Toronto Globe & Mail writes similarly: "Outrageousness proves hard to sustain, and after a stomach-lurchingly quick start, The Hangover slows down and, by the third act, fizzes out like Alka-Seltzer in a highball glass." And Tom Maurstad in the Dallas Morning News predicts: "More than any other movie this summer, this may be the one people keep talking about. That includes maybe the best closing-credits sequence ever." |
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