‘Never Cheat Your Audience….give them what they expect from you’….A maxim Manmohan Desai lived by…using his immortal lost & found formula….with mother in centre and Amitabh Bachchan everywhere else….and audience lapped it up again and again and again….but why am I talking about MKD when writing about one of the most ribald comedies I have come across. Hangover II delivers exactly the same fare as did Hangover I, but with different ingredients and needless to say a lot more spice.
It is the same story of a member of the ‘wolfpack’ getting married…a bachelor party….rather a pre-marriage bonfire drinks going wrong…and the protagonists piecing the jigsaw together, not under the glittering skyline of Las Vegas, but the seedier underbelly of Bangkok. The charm of the movie is not about the plot but the ingenuity the writers and directors have employed to unfold the same sequence of events with the same set of core protagonists. The plot is so identical….that the final piece of the jigsaw for the missing character and even the cathartic outburst at the climax is by the same character as in the first movie. Hangover is a classic example of a comic thriller genre….and takes the concept of ribaldry to a greater heights…though not as subtle as the Carry On Series did….but then subtlety is a British art….not an American sensibility. Although Hangover II managed to reinvent its staleness of a concept by increasing the grossness….it would surely be interesting to see if it develops as a franchise, without altering its basic premise of revelry going wrong and hanging on to its characteristic bawdiness.
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