MYST POST #1

After choosing between watching this movie and The Giver, I finally relented and decided to watch this based on everyone saying how good of a movie it was. And to my surprise this movie did not disappointed and it was excellent. Before watching it of course, I looked on its rating on Rotten Tomatoes.com  by critics it was given a 73% which the average rating would be 6.6/10, as for the audience 84% liked it and the average rating was 4/5. Of course, these ratings actually heightened my expectations for the movie because usually the critics are wrong in their ratings and the audience usually likes the movies. So of course I'm choosing and looking at the ratings and it's 10pm and I'm like OK time to watch the movie.

While watching the movie, the main characters Doug (Justin Bartha), Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed

Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis), went to Vegas for a bachelor party for Doug turned horribly
wrong because they are all hungover, they have someone else's baby, a tiger,  Stu has a tooth missing, and most importantly they have lost Doug the groom about to get married in a couple of days. And of course, they go on this adventure, trying to remember what happened the night before. They

eventually return the baby to his mother, who's a stripper, also to find out that Stu has "married" the stripper the night before. When they go back to the hotel, Mike Tyson is there waiting for the three to explain how they have his tiger. Of course they have no idea, and Tyson demands that they bring the tiger back to his house. Afterwards, they are on the highway, and Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) and his guards force them to pull them over and tell them that exchange for "Doug" they have to give him his
$80,000, that was lost in the swap of Alan's purse and Mr. Chow's. So they go back to the villa, and try looking and then they can't find the purse, so they gamble playing blackjack and win $82,000 and they meet Mr. Chow and they get black Doug. So in the mist of everything, black Doug mentions something about how ecstasy should be named something different and how it shouldn't be called roofies. And Stu, realizes finally that they left Doug on the roof last night on top of his mattress as a prank that they did to him back when they were younger in camp. They find Doug and they realize that they need to hurry and get home to the marriage that they are already late for. Of course, they make it and they are dressed and Doug gets married with Phil being his best man. Before the ending, Stu finally tells his girlfriend Melissa (Rachael Harris) that he went to Vegas and how mean of a person she is. Also, Alan finds the camera with all the "dirt" they did in Vegas and they agree that they look at these pictures once and then they delete them.

 

The film was not at all fast-paced, or jerky. All the parts fit perfectly with each other, without one part the movie would make absolutely no sense. The storyline is presented when the movie first comes on, when Phil calls calling Tracy and almost telling her what happened and then it starts off from earlier that day before. The time is perfect because the editors cut it off right before Stu tackles Phil and then they go get Doug. Without this part, the audience more than likely wouldn't have gotten pulled into the movie as much. I know that this part really did leave a good start to the movie and it held my attention. Also, the soundtrack was amazing. The songs that played during the movie went perfectly with what was happening in the movie, and the songs were pretty catchy and I liked them.

The main scene that stuck out to me was when they were about to leave Vegas and go back home and then right before they left Stu saw his "wife" and he went and talked to her. And he asked, "So what are you doing next weekend, because if it's nothing, I want to come back and take you to dinner." This was my favorite scene because it was cute and lovable and she was also sweet and nice and she said "Of course, you can come". I just really loved this scene, because Stu was so used to being

bossed around by his girlfriend and doing what she says and wearing what she wants him to wear and not making his own decisions sometimes. And in this scene, I'm sure he finally figured out that his girlfriend was not the nicest and that he deserved much better then Melissa.

This movie was excellent and I rate it 5/5 and I would definitely recommend people to watch it for a good laughs.

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