The Hangover Part 3 is terrible

Ok, so I finally broke down and watched this movie.

I own the first two, I had hopes that the last movie of the trilogy would be a pleasant send-off to the franchise.

I was terribly wrong.

Firstly, it breaks the previously established formula, in a bad way. In the previous two movies all of the action took place the day after a blackout bender where the three members of the "Wolfpack" try to piece together what it was they did the previous night, while trying to find their lost fourth member.

In Part 3 there is no blackout hangover. Instead there is a ridiculous criminal conspiracy. For no logical reason. The wolfpack gets sucked into the conspiracy because apparently all mobsters are criminally inept.

So the plot has more in common with Ocean's 11 than it does The Hangover.

But the major problem with The Hangover 3 is that it wasn't at all fun.
The first two were hilarious because of the mystery and discovering at each new clue exactly how ridiculously drunk the boys were the previous night. The classic ending to the first two movies being a slideshow of recovered camera photos from the bender.

This third movie had no slideshow. Because there was no bender. There was no awesome experience that they wish they could remember. Just a bunch of awful interactions with criminals that they wish they could forget.

The filmmakers received alot of flak for making part 2 just a ramped up version of part 1. But after seeing three, they really should have stuck to the formula.


And as a bonus, I'm also reviewing Warm Bodies:

Ok, so this one I'm much more pleased with. It's not a great movie, but it's very cute. Somewhere, someone had the bright idea "Hey, why don't we combine Romeo & Juliet with Zombies?"

Honestly, I wouldn't have done it. There are other Shakespearean plays that much more easily lend themselves to a zombie apocalypse. But it had cute romance and vicious zombie horror.
Which is my one major complaint. It's like they tried to make the perfect "Date movie" that had romance for girls and action for guys. The problem is that they both detract from the other. The romance reduced the suspense of Zombie horror, and the Horror added anxiety to the romance.

So they tried to do two things at once, and ended up being ok at both. The Zombie Horror wasn't all that scary, and the Romance was a bit off-putting. But it worked out, kinda.

I'd watch it again, but not sure I'd recommend it to anyone.