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Box-Office Benjamin$: The Hangover Scores Again, Taking 123 Bombs
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The Hangover has done it again. Fresh off it’s upset debut last week, beating Pixar’s UP in the process, The Hangover was #1 at the box-office again this weekend with an impressive $32 million. With solid reviews and great word-of-mouth buzz, the blackout comedy has become an R-rated comedy heavy weight, cracking the $100 million mark after only two weekends, with a $104 million grand total. That is really impressive for a comedy, especially an R-rated one filled with drugs and profanity. Not as close as last week with a meager $900,000 difference, UP still nipped at The Hangover’s heels this weekend, coming in second again with an also impressive $30.8 million.
Rabs’ Review: The Hangover is Very Funny, But FOR ME, Lacked LOL
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THE HANGOVER (A-)
How many times have you woke up on the floor of your apartment or house after a blackout night of drinking? All the lights are on, there’s a burnt pizza is in the oven, the TV is blaring and your cell phone and wallet are missing. You get up, chug any non-alcoholic liquid you can find and spend the remainder of your afternoon trying to figure out what the hell happened the night before. I know there’s a lot of people huffing and puffing with steam coming out of their ears after reading the title of this movie review, but just hear me out. I went to see The Hangover yesterday with a few buddies and it was entertaining and funny. The concept is genius. It’s about time that they took this simple, hilarious idea that so many millions of Americans have experienced and made it into a 96-minute movie.
The Hangover is the first film from Todd Phillips since 2006′ School For Scoundrels. Todd is the one of the pioneers of this generation’s raunchy R-rated comedies, with Road Trip and Old School at the beginning of the decade. It’s good for the genre that he’s been back as it has been over-saturated over the past three years by Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow and Will Ferrell. I say this not as a criticism, as all three of these comedy kings have blessed us with quality laughs, but their brand names have created somewhat of a monopoly of the R-rated raunchy comedy genre.
