How THE HANGOVER PART III Should’ve Gone Down
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- Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 08:00
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The final movie in the trilogy starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galafianakis didn’t live up to the title since in this third try – no one suffered from a hangover, just a headache on the part of the viewer. HANGOVER 2 got a lot of flack for following the same formula as the original flick (2009) so in the third, they avoided the whole thing and merely had Doug kidnapped by John Goodman. What a cop out!
If CineMovie had its way, this is what would’ve gone down in the last of the HANGOVER movies.
The wives in the trilogy were pretty much useless characters merely serving as nagging women. So why not have them serve a better purpose in the final film? And poor Doug played by Justin Bartha disappears in the first film, is a goody-two shoes in the sequel, and in the third, serves as the damsel in distress. Why not use Doug and the wives for a better purpose to end the trilogy. Grant it the stars are Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms so we’d have to see them on screen.
What makes The Hangover movies entertaining is what happens when you let go of your inhibitions – all hell breaks loose. Given that we know what happens to Stu, Alan and Phil under the influence of drugs – its time to utilize the others.
How about this time the Wolfpack are forced into going to Las Vegas by Stu, Phil, and Doug’s wives, and of course they take along Alan as a courtesy. The Wolfpack have an aversion to Vegas as we know, but they won’t dare tell their wives why. So off go the happy couples or so we think.
The Wolfpack aren’t the only ones who can party. Turns out the ladies like to tear it up too after a couple of drinks. The men are actually being the responsible ones avoiding any binging in Sin City and keeping their wives in check. The party poopers are cramping the women’s style. They want to have a good time and forget about their boring home lives.
The boys are on their own after the ladies form their own pack, but not before slipping something into each of the men’s drinks.
Cut to the next day, Stu, Alan, Doug and Phil wake up spooning each other. “Not again!” All their behinds are raw with markings of a whipping. So the running joke is that none of them can sit down.
The wives are no where to be found except for some bondage attire strewn around the room. Maybe they’re in the other rooms. Nope. They only find more questionable items.
Thus the adventure begins to uncover what happened to their wives. The usual suspects like Chow turn up and help the women lose themselves in Las Vegas.
The Wolfpack each find their wives one by one and what they discover will shock them about their adoring partner. They’re not so innocent it seems. One passes the night as a showgirl, the other as a stripper, and another one as an S&M mistress. It’s a journey of discovery as they find out the women had some pent up aggression from the pressures of motherhood and marriage. They slipped them sleeping pills so that they would retire early, and then used their newly acquired bondage equipment on the boys while they were knocked out. But the Wolfpack can’t pass judgment for obvious reasons. The couples obviously work through some of their issues as they locate them and Alan also finds true love (which you do see in the current movie).
While we can’t write the whole thing out, that’s our pitch for how THE HANGOVER III could have been a better movie. Todd Philips announced this completes the trilogy, but we may need another one to make up for the last two. And this would make a great HANGOVER PART IV. I’m just saying.
