The Hangover comes out this weekend, and it looks very good to me. They're killing it with the movie posters. It's got Videogum favorite (and basically everyone else favorite) Zach Galifianakis. And despite what the New York Times said this weekend, I don't consider "Las Vegas bachelor party" to be the oldest plot device in the book of plot devices. I'm not saying "Las Vegas bachelor party" blows my mind with its Charlie Kaufman-esque moebius nesting dolls of narrative invention, but it seems like a perfectly acceptable framework on which to build one's TOWER OF LAFFS.
Anyway, there is yet another new red band trailer out today, after the jump. Personally, I think they can chill with the trailers at this point. There have already been over 1,000 iterations of the trailer for this movie. Relax. But I'm not President of Trailers, so I don't get to make those kinds of decisions. (Yet.) Nevertheless, this trailer does have some new laffs in it, and also some new CLUES!
As you may recall from one of the previous 1,700 trailers for this movie, The Hangover tells the story of three friends trying to retrace their steps and find their missing friend after a crazy night in Las Vegas. OK! And this trailer gives us some glimpses of what some of those steps were!
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"BLINK AND YOU MIGHT MISS IT!"
--Malcolm Gladwell
Using scientific technology and an incredible amount of spare time, I have slowed down the trailer to reveal these snapshots of just what happened during that fateful night on which the whole movie is predicated. SPOILER ALERT: I am a nerd.
Computer, let's bring up that first image.
"Sure."
--Computer
OK, Zach Galifianakis gets his navel pierced. No big deal, BUT A SALIENT DETAIL NONETHELESS. Computer, show us something more intriguing.
Interesting. That must be the mystery woman that Ed Helms marries, which we know he does because there have been TOO MANY TRAILERS and there is very little MYSTERY actually left to this movie, and it is a good thing this is a comedy and so the point is the laffs and not the BURNING QUESTIONS.
Next slide, computer.
Ed Helms PULLS HIS OWN TOOTH OUT! Sherlock Holmes is like "Well done, guv'nah" and I am like, "Thanks."
And finally, computer, let's take another look the most exciting piece of previously unknown information regarding what happens during the mysterious night that is growing less and less mysterious as variation on variation of trailer for this movie is released:
They meet Carrot Top. Surprise? I guess that kind of explains his random appearance in the last Between Two Ferns. A pattern emerges. A potato is a computer. See you at the cinemaz.
