The Hangover Critic Reviews

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Variety | Joe LeydonAdd Critic to Favorites

At once raucously free-wheeling and meticulously contrived, picture satisfies as a boys-gone-wild laff riot that also clicks as a seriocomic beat-the-clock detective story.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Michael RechtshaffenAdd Critic to Favorites

A piercingly funny, twisted "whatever-happens-in-Vegas" caper.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

A funny movie, flat out, all the way through. Its setup is funny. Every situation is funny. Most of the dialogue is funny almost line by line.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

The Hangover ain't art, but Phillips has shaped the hardcore hilarity into the summer party movie of all our twisted dreams.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Betsy SharkeyAdd Critic to Favorites

There is a sort of perverse brilliance or brilliant perverseness to be found in this story of a bachelor party gone terribly wrong.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

It's a worst-case-scenario of bachelor party morning-after, and it is howlingly funny.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

Director Todd Phillips (Old School) has a knack for extreme scenarios and outside-the-box casting. He has made a movie that is consistently funny from start to finish.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

The funniest movie so far this year.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

Overall it's more amusing than hilarious.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

For a viewer in the mood for something rude, crude, and lewd, it would be difficult to find a more satisfying food.Read the full review

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