In Theaters: May 24th, 2013
Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes (100 minutes)
Genre: Comedy
Twist-filled
Storyline
Ensures
That
You're
Seldom
Bored.
"The Hangover Part III" is the third and final film in director Todd Phillips' record-shattering comedy franchise. This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.
This final installment in the party-boy franchise... wisely drops the narrative gimmick of alcohol-induced amnesia that made the first movie so unusual and the second its pallid copy.
An excessively violent action comedy that handily manages the tough task of feeling at once tired and aggressively heartless.
If only what happened in Vegas had stayed in Vegas.
This third installment could easily be dismissed as too little, too late, if only it weren't in fact too much, too late.
Critic Score: 1/5
This odious, mean-spirited movie appropriates the title and the characters from the previous pictures and sends them on a would-be adventure involving gangsters, gold bars and that pinnacle of hilarity, decapitated giraffes.
Critic Score: 1/4
Not just bad, but weirdly, fascinatingly bad.
Critic Score: 0/4
"Hangover III" is likable enough, even as it collapses in a heap.
Coupled with its logic headaches, it left me feeling like I needed an Alka-Seltzer Plus. Anything to add a little fizzy relief to these flat and unfunny proceedings.
Critic Score: 1/4
The Hangover Part III is an obvious example of how wrong things can go when the almighty dollar is allowed to rule what comes out of Hollywood.
Critic Score: 1.5/4
The tonal problem of the second installment, which often resembled a drug-infested pulp thriller instead of a comedy, is also problematic here.
Critic Score: C-
The pleasant surprise of "The Hangover Part III" is a belated bout of adulthood has only made the extended-adolescent characters funnier. The result is a more traditional but more hysterical crowd-pleaser.
Critic Score: 4/5
Director Todd Phillips delivers a film so different from the first two, I'm not even sure it's supposed to be a comedy.
Critic Score: 2.5/5
The first movie left you with an exhilarating rush. All that Part III leaves is, well, a hangover.
Critic Score: 1.5/4
Those looking for hilarity and hijinks with episode three will find the party is indeed over.
Critic Score: 2/4
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