ALAN WAKE 2 BRADLEY COOPER MOVIE
The movie is a comedy of rationality struggling for control. The filmmakers knew that scenes of drunken and druggy carousal are just as boring to watch in movies as in life, but that throat-clutching anxiety, mounting in shrill hysteria to the point of breakdown, can be riotous and engulfing. Phillips and the first set of screenwriters, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, did something brilliant in “The Hangover.” They showed us not the long night of vice but the longer day after it, when the men, stone-cold sober, are forced to realize, with increasing horror, what they have done to the world and to themselves in the preceding twelve hours. No one, I suppose, can blame Todd Phillips, the director of both movies, for trying again. There is a car chase through a city market, a boat racing past green mountains on the coast, many bright colors, and much scenery, all of it vaguely reminiscent of a James Bond film, though one featuring men rather less suave than Sean Connery, Roger Moore, or Daniel Craig. But it feels, at times, like a routine adventure film set overseas. “The Hangover Part II” isn’t a dud, exactly-some of it is very funny, and there are a few memorable jolts and outlandish dirty moments. “The Hangover” has the physical freedom and the wildness of a great silent comedy, though, heaven knows, none of the innocence. Teddy’s not there, but, in a bowl of water, the others find a finger, with his ruby-red Stanford ring on it. Then, somehow, while Doug stays behind, the rest wind up spending the night in utmost debauchery, and wake the next day incapable of remembering a thing-this time in a sordid hotel room, in Bangkok. Does he mean it? He and Doug and the two other members of the “Wolfpack”-Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis)-go for a drink on the beach, taking along the bride’s brother, Teddy (Mason Lee), a sixteen-year-old genius attending Stanford. He doesn’t want to have his life turned upside down, or so he says. Stu doesn’t want another insane night of revelry, like the last time, when Doug (Justin Bartha) got married.
He’s marrying a beautiful young woman, Lauren (Jamie Chung), in a ceremony at a beach resort in Thailand, paid for by her wealthy Thai parents. This time, it’s Stu (Ed Helms), the square and logical dentist, who’s about to enter a state of bliss. Again, there is a wedding in the offing, with a bachelor party that nearly wrecks the day. Those eternal contraries were key to the 2009 comedy smash “The Hangover,” and they are again in “The Hangover Part II,” which replicates the characters, the structure, the hallucinatory deliriums, and the terrors of the first movie, though with somewhat less fizz. This we also know: Men truly, madly, deeply don’t want to get married. This we know: Men truly, madly, deeply want to get married. Reunited: Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, and Zach Galifianakis.
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