Movie Reviews: "The Hangover Part III"

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Movie Reviews: The Hangover Part III


The latest Hangover movie is getting a jump on its primary rival -- the latest Fast and Furious movie -- at the Memorial Day weekend box office by opening tonight (Thursday).

It may need it.





Writes Stephen Holden in The New York Times:

"As the expectant audience at the screening I attended waited for The Hangover Part III to explode into action with the usual lewd gross-out antics, only a few scattered laughs could be heard, along with much grumbling after the final credits.

For The Hangover Part III ... is a dull, lazy walkthrough. Once a critics' favorite, the franchise's third installment is not being battered so much as brushed off."





As Michael Phillips puts it in the Chicago Tribune:

"The movie is just instantly forgettable. It won't take much to sleep this one off."





To Ty Burr in the Boston Globe:

"It's not terrible. It's just bad."





Kyle Smith in the New York Post writes that it hits you with all the force of a warm can of O'Doul's.

(He awards it half a star.)





Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times, who says she thought the original Hangover felt caustic, clever, comical and slightly subversive, concludes that with the latest episode:

"The comedy has left the building."





Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer opines:

"Director Todd Phillips has managed to hammer the nails in the coffin of his hit franchise."





Likewise Rafer Guzma¡n in Newsday concludes:

"Rarely has such a beloved comedy franchise been so coldly put to death. The closest equivalent might be when cartoonist Robert Crumb killed Fritz the Cat with an icepick to the head."

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