Hangover Is So Good It Hurts

The Hangover 's raunchy tale of three bachelor-party buddies trying to piece together a wild night in Vegas blends its screwball ingredients into a hilarious and surprisingly headache-free mix, say critics.

• Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie is "rowdy, scurrilous, and, for about three-quarters of its running time, a lot more hilarious than it has any right to be."

• Kyle Smith, New York Post:: "Raunchy frat comedies are as hard to pull off as any other kind because they have to keep surprising the audience, and The Hangover does with a bizarre series of uproarious situations with explanations that just about stay within the bounds of plausibility."
• Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: "The Hangover ain't art," but director Todd Phillips "has shaped the hardcore hilarity into the summer party movie of all our twisted dreams."

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