'The Hangover Part II': More Sex, More Drugs, Less Rock n Roll

Bangkok has them now, but Las Vegas never let them go. In 2009, director and co-writer Todd Phillips brought together a group of men who set out to act like boys on a bachelor party weekend in Sin City for The Hangover.

Starring still-rising stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and the slightly more established Ed Helms, the fallout of the bacchanal gone bad were funny and shocking. Cooper’s Phil was the lovable rogue and leader, Helms’ Stu the unraveling straight man, Galifianakis’ Alan the zany loose screw. The film made serious bank ($467 million) because it was a solid adult comedy, and a success with critics and audiences.

And so a sequel was made.

This time set in Thailand instead of Nevada, the wedding in The Hangover Part II is for Stu, not Justin Bartha’s Doug (who is still around but misses out on the action). Instead of sticking with his stripper wife Heather Graham from the first flick, Stu the dentist has found the perfect gal in Lauren (Jamie Chung, most recently from Sucker Punch) and goes to Thailand to meet her family and wed. Stu tries to be innocent and avoid the same Vegas trouble from before, but one beer with the guys leads to them waking up on the floor of a dingy Bangkok hotel without memories of the night before. Worse still, the 16-year-old brother-in-law Stu was supposed to be watching has gone missing.