Here, as in The Hangover, the laughs aren't just staged, they're superlatively engineered — even if that means, at moments, that they feel like they're falling into formatted slots. When they don't, the movie can be flat-out 
 hilarious.

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What happens in Bangkok isn’t as much fun as when it happened in Vegas, but it’s still worth the trip.

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Darker and meaner than the original but just as funny and horrifying. And like the best stag do’s, sure to be recalled in the pub for weeks afterwards…

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The Hangover Part II has to rely solely on the strategy that made the first film into a worldwide phenomenon. Lucky us.

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The Wolfpack Is Back, and This Time They've Brought a Monkey

Because it doesn't tamper with a hugely successful formula, The Hangover Part II is bound to be a hit.

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Sequels are never a good idea, especially if the first film is good. And The Hangover was very good.

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The Hangover Part II colors within the lines, but does so with bright fluorescents rather than drab primaries

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The Hangover Part II may be the funniest movie so far this year, although that may be saying more about the lack of competition than the movie itself.

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Looking to catch more buzz in a bottle, The Hangover Part II isn’t so much a sequel but a remake of the most successful R-rated comedy of all time.

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Still reeling in the same circles

What seemed laugh-out-loud fresh in its unpredictable rudeness (at least intermittently) is now chuckle-to-yourself funny with about the same regularity.

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The new setting gives Part II more edge than its predecessor and, combined with a bit more action and intrigue, makes the sequel a touch darker than the original.

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More of the same may be the right formula for some franchises (like Fast and the Furious), but The Hangover isn’t one of them.

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The Hangover Part II is a semi-surreal head trip.

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The players are just too good for it to be a total stinker. But it’s not new. It’s just recycled.

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The Hangover Part 2 definitely has its moments and a few big laughs throughout, but the most memorable thing about this second substance-induced amnesia comedy is how ultimately forgettable it is.

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Thai one on!

While “The Hangover Part II” will inevitably also clean up, I have the sad duty to report I found this more elaborate, play-it-safe sequel far less fresh or funny.

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To those who say expediency and a rush to a big payday had nothing to do with getting this sizzle-free sequel into the summer marketplace, I'm calling bullshit.

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One of the more brilliant strokes in keeping the laugh factor high in "The Hangover" was its mix of crazy strangers the guys encounter in trying to reconstruct what happened

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For the haters, THE HANGOVER PART II is nothing more than that lingering headache that is a painful reminder of what you ingested the night before

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The Hangover Part II is a almost a direct copy of the original, except darker, more vulgar and less laugh-out-loud funny.

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Nothing can cure this too familiar ‘Hangover'

At its best, especially when Alan is blurting his sick sentiments, the humor is amusingly familiar, like another installment of a lowbrow serial.

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That’s not to say that The Hangover Part II isn’t devoid of laughs, but there are moments where moviegoers will be sitting silently waiting for something funny to happen.

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Bangkok makes Vegas seem like nursery school in the follow-up to 2009's hilarious, brilliantly-structured comedy The Hangover.

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The lads in the “Hangover” “wolfpack” seem a tad winded, this time around. From concept to execution, “Hangover Part II” has a “been there, done that, jailed for it” feel.

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Too much hangs over in new 'Hangover'

Because in Phillips' Bangkok-and-bull story, almost everybody in Thailand is either a Buddhist monk or a sex worker; the movie gives off the stale odor of cultural stereotyping.

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The chemistry between the actors keeps the film from being a total wash-out: Cooper, Helms and Galifianakis work together like a practiced troupe of comedians, and their likability keeps the film afloat even after Russian mobsters and car chases take over.

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Is this some kind of a test? "The Hangover, Part II" plays like a challenge to the audience's capacity for raunchiness.

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This isn't even really a sequel to the hilarious 2009 comedy smash set in Las Vegas. It's virtually the same movie, just transferred to another continent and with the raunch wildly amped up.

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More of the same then for The Hangover, and it’s hard to see whether they’ll string this out
for another sequel.

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But its writing and direction smell more like marketing than actual filmmaking — after administering the knockout drops, it proceeds to roll you. With friends like this, who needs enemies?

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3 Men and a Monkey-Baby

The outrages, most of which are once again carefully elided in the actual movie, involve a slipped knife, a tribal tattoo and Thai bar girls performing specialized party tricks.

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A colossal disappointment, The term dialed-in should be replaced with The Hangover 2.

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Perhaps my expectations were too high for this film, or my regard for the first one too great? Either way, it left me sadly disappointed.

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After a barrage of uneven gross-out gags and some sour racial humor, they piece things together. Darker and more desperate than the previous go-round, this one might have done better just to sleep it off.

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Were there some laughs? Sure, but unless you think that penises are really LOL funny you might not laugh very much. Then again, a couple of beers prior to seeing this might make it funnier.

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An unashamed attempt to recapture magic of the original

It's the atmosphere that remains, the liberating sense of adventure that bonds the boys with each other and the audience.

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Yep, we're waking up here. Again

Hangover II" is more like a spitball meeting, a series of ideas that might, in theory, be good enough for a sequel, than it is an actual movie.

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No cure for this ‘Hangover’

That’s the functional paradox driving every movie sequel, that characters and audience alike have to suspend disbelief while the same things happen all over again.

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This film needed to be made about as much as I needed to dedicate almost a thousand words articulating its simmering mediocrity.

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The headache has truly set in for the laboured and self-conscious The Hangover Part II. It's more a remake than a sequel

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'The Hangover Part 2' absolutely rocked'

During their Vegas bachelor night debauch, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) lost the groom on the eve of his wedding; this time, they lose the Thai bride’s innocent 16-year-old brother on the eve of her marriage to Stu.

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