1. The Hangover: Part II (2011)
No movie relies on the idea of itself as a simple carbon copy of the original like
The Hangover: Part II, which might have been a worthwhile venture had it tried to induce some kind of spin on a tired formula. I don't know why, exactly, the plot in this movie is so similar to the original - the beats are ludicrously and unbelievably identical, as if the word "Las Vegas" was swapped out in the script for "Bangkok," and that's our sequel. The original flick, of course, had three friends waking up after a drunken night with no memory of what happened. Piece by piece, they try to reassemble the events that led them to having both a tiger and a baby in their room. In
Part II, we re-visit these plot points with new variations, but it doesn't work because, fundamentally, the jokes are just the same. It's incredibly difficult to find such consistent rehashing amusing. The chances that the story in the
Hangover would happen once are slim, but
twice... impossible to buy. Had the movie been at least funny, it's might've been okay. As it stands,
Part II is perhaps the laziest sequel that Hollywood has ever dared to push out. It made a ton of money, but audiences weren't particularly pleased with the product that they were being sold. Getting drunk and losing your memory is the only antidote for this one.
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