A sequel to The Hangover was always inevitable, but you’d hope that Todd Phillips would trust his audience enough to try and do something different with the follow-up. There’s obviously a requirement to have a certain degree of familiarity – a nod and an in-joke here, a character cameo there – but The Hangover: Part II shows the writers have absolutely no faith in their characters or their own ability to take them somewhere new.

At first, that over-familiarity is played for laughs. It’s happening again – that’s the joke, and we’re in on it. But then as the story continues down the exact same path and hits the exact same plot beats as the first, you realise that it’s not actually being played for laughs any more. It’s not just the same concept as the first movie – it’s the same movie.

There’s the opening bombshell, the rewind, the awkward scene with Alan; the fast-forward, the groggy morning after, the hunt for the missing member; the red herring, the kidnapping, the bait and switch. Ed Helms even has a mini-musical interlude – in the original, it felt like a sweet little aside, but here it’s yet another box ticked marked ‘THIS WORKED, DO THIS AGAIN’. By the time Mike Tyson turns up for his dreadful cameo, all of the movie’s goodwill is burned through like paraffin.

The Hangover: Part II abides by the unspoken rule of the sequel: everything has to be bigger, crazier and louder than before. This works to a point (hearing the extremely graphic description of an encounter with a ladyboy is cringeworthy yet hilarious) and Bangkok is the perfect location for such a set-up, but the incessant need to one-up the original in terms of shock value grates quite quickly. A group of pilled-up American bachelors being assholes in Vegas works just fine, but taking the same obnoxious jerks and dropping them slap-bang in the middle of another culture renders queasy results.
Everything is just so unnecessarily aggressive. Bradley Cooper’s Phil graduates from a chest-thumping alpha male in the original to a borderline sociopath; Zach Galfianakis’ wildcard Alan is still “literally too stupid to insult” but goes from being a well-meaning idiot to a unforgivably idiotic buffoon. Only Ed Helms’ Stu has any sort of meaningful character arc, and it’s not a particularly well-sketched one – nothing in The Hangover: Part II feels like it’s progressed past the first draft. It’s clear also that Todd Phillips has a real disdain for women – or perhaps it’s just total and utter indifference on his part. Jamie Chung as Stu’s wife has nothing to do except wait out the storm with a concerned look on her face and hug her fiancée upon his return, despite the fact he’s sporting a facial tattoo on their wedding day. No shit-fits? No screaming? No sign of independence at all? Maybe that’s just Todd Phillips’ comment on the passive nature of all Asian chicks, right? Something like that.

There are a few good lines in among all the winks and nudges (“I wish monkeys could Skype”), but they’re only heard when the background din is at a minimum – frankly a little more downtime is needed. If The Hangover: Part II makes lots of money – and let’s face it, it will – then The Hangover: Part III has to be considered a terrifyingly real possibility, but this franchise has gone as far as it can for now. Maybe an early night wouldn’t be such a bad thing for once.

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1. In this picture, which is called “History is as old as the hills” Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges playing the role of Belle and transformed the Prince from the movie “Beauty and the Beast. ”

2. Queen Latifah in the role of Ursula the Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid. ”

3. In this painting, called “You are beautiful, ” Alec Baldwin plays the role of the spirit of the magic mirror, and Olivia Wilde – the Wicked Queen from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ”

4. In this photo Bience portrays Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”, and the role of the Mad Hatter and March Hare, respectively, went to Oliver Platt and Latslu Lovett.

5. Scarlett Johansson has decided to complement the glamorous image of Cinderella’s ball gown and diamond tiara at 62 carats from Harry Winston.

6. Julianne Moore reincarnated in Ariel from “The Little Mermaid. ” In the foreground we see the Olympic champion swimmer Michael Felsen, who represents the residents of the underwater kingdom.

7. Rachel Weisz in the image of Snow White.

8. Super-model Gisele Bundchen in the role of Wendy Darling and the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan.

9. Also, Tina Fey in the role of the fairy Tinker Bell in the picture, which is called “Where you never have to grow up. ”

10. Jessica Biel in the image of Pocahontas in the painting titled “Dreams are free. ”

11. David Beckham exchanged the ball on his sword and sat astride a white horse. Now he is – a prince from “Sleeping Beauty”.

12. Roger Federer as King Arthur.

13. Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony to try on images of Jasmine and Aladdin.

14. Whoopi Goldberg is shown in the role of Gina from the movie “Aladdin. ” Painting is called “Where you’ll get a new world. ”

15. Lady Julie Andrews plays the role of the Blue Fairy from “Pinocchio” and Abigail Breslin portrays Fira.

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Throughout the film, Edward says just 169 words.

At one point, when Edward’s driven a car in the yard the children play. This is a running boy Nick Carter, who in the future become a party to Backstreet Boy

Originally, the screenplay was written as a musical.

On the role of Edward, instead of Johnny Depp could get Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey and Robert Downey

To transform Johnny Edward every time dressers and make-up artists needed 1 hour and 45 minutes.

For the filming of all the inhabitants of the town of Tampa, Florida were moved to the hotel and the houses are painted in four different colors.

Scars on the face of Depp in the film in different scenes at different locations and vary in length and depth.

This is the last frame with  on the screen before his death

Johnny played a role inspired by the movie “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”

All figures from the bushes that are cut out, Edward was made of metal frames and thousands of small plants in plastic pots.