10 Famous Movies That Screwed Up The Most Important Part
5. The Hangover: Part II - Originality
The Hangover Part II was doomed the second word got out Zach Galifanakis refused to work with occasionally-drunk anti-Semite Mel Gibson, especially since rapist Mike Tyson's cameo turned out to be the most popular thing about the first movie. Set drama is a recipe for disaster when it comes to making a comedy. There's also the idea that comedy is a lot less funny the second time around, and with pretty much everyone having seen The Hangover Part I, this movie needed to be over-the-top, unpredictable, and make a deliberate choice to not re-hash everything the first movie did. So they did the opposite of everything the sentence above suggested. Another drug-induced Hangover? Fine. Doug goes missing again? Fine. Chang? Again? Ugh to each their own, probably. While the Hangover Part II caught most of its flack for doing the same thing as the first movie, again, the real problem was how listless and uninspired those retreads felt. There was no energy or blood going to it. Face it, when the climax of your raunchy, R-rated, blockbuster comedy involves waiting for files to download on a computer, something has gone horribly wrong. You can't help but feel this flick forgot the most important rule of comedy is deliver the unexpected. The Hangover Part II, even in its best moments, was predictable. Characters wake up. Cant remember anything. Search for clues. Get shot. Steal a boat. End up involved in some sort of ridiculous government sting operation, and finally get in a car chase over a monkey with secret bank codes. Those things actually happened in the movie. None of them were funny. There's only so many times a character can say "We don't remember anything!" before the audience gets tired of the same hit single. The Hangover movies are essentially police procedural without police. Characters show up at a location, ask what the hell happened, get a clue, and move on. If there was a murder involved, this could have played as a bad two-parter in Law and Order: Criminal Intent - and that would at least have a couple of creative zingers.
