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| Last Vegas trailer: The Hangover meets its match? | Last Vegas trailer: The Hangover meets its match? |
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| The Hangover might just be the most influential movie of the modern age. It's spawned two sequels, made box-office stars out of almost everyone in it and – crucially – got other films lining up to compare themselves to it. Google "The Hangover meets" if you don't believe me: Hot Tub Time Machine was "The Hangover meets Back to the Future", Project X was "The Hangover meets Cloverfield", Aftershock is "The Hangover meets The Impossible" and 21 and Over is "The Hangover meets Superbad". It's endless. | The Hangover might just be the most influential movie of the modern age. It's spawned two sequels, made box-office stars out of almost everyone in it and – crucially – got other films lining up to compare themselves to it. Google "The Hangover meets" if you don't believe me: Hot Tub Time Machine was "The Hangover meets Back to the Future", Project X was "The Hangover meets Cloverfield", Aftershock is "The Hangover meets The Impossible" and 21 and Over is "The Hangover meets Superbad". It's endless. |
| Which makes the upcoming Last Vegas The Hangover meets … what, exactly? It's definitely The Hangover meets something, because it's about a gang of men on the loose in Las Vegas, and because almost everything I've read about it has mentioned The Hangover at least once. Perhaps the only reasonable way to get to the bottom of this is to watch the new Last Vegas trailer. | Which makes the upcoming Last Vegas The Hangover meets … what, exactly? It's definitely The Hangover meets something, because it's about a gang of men on the loose in Las Vegas, and because almost everything I've read about it has mentioned The Hangover at least once. Perhaps the only reasonable way to get to the bottom of this is to watch the new Last Vegas trailer. |
| From the first scene we can tell that this is definitely a Hangover knockoff, and that Michael Douglas plays the Bradley Cooper character. Of course he does, because look at that unfortunate dress sense of his. But what does this make Last Vegas? The Hangover meets Falling Down? That'd be fun. The Hangover meets Wonder Boys? Less fun. | From the first scene we can tell that this is definitely a Hangover knockoff, and that Michael Douglas plays the Bradley Cooper character. Of course he does, because look at that unfortunate dress sense of his. But what does this make Last Vegas? The Hangover meets Falling Down? That'd be fun. The Hangover meets Wonder Boys? Less fun. |
| Maybe this'll help. It's the other three quarters of this film's wolfpack: Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. So it's The Hangover meets The Godfather Part II, then. Or The Hangover meets Driving Miss Daisy. Or The Hangover meets Sophie's Choice. | Maybe this'll help. It's the other three quarters of this film's wolfpack: Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. So it's The Hangover meets The Godfather Part II, then. Or The Hangover meets Driving Miss Daisy. Or The Hangover meets Sophie's Choice. |
| But on with the story. Douglas has roped De Niro, Freeman and Kline into a crazy weekend away in Las Vegas. But why? Is he dying? Is he getting married? Because that's the difference between it being The Hangover meets The Bucket List and The Hangover meets The Hangover. Although, that said, one of those sounds miserable and the other one sounds redundant. Oh, I don't know any more. | But on with the story. Douglas has roped De Niro, Freeman and Kline into a crazy weekend away in Las Vegas. But why? Is he dying? Is he getting married? Because that's the difference between it being The Hangover meets The Bucket List and The Hangover meets The Hangover. Although, that said, one of those sounds miserable and the other one sounds redundant. Oh, I don't know any more. |
| Still, the Last Vegas guys go back a long way: here's a photo of them all as children. Although that's just an assumption based on a single image. There's nothing suggesting, for instance, that Last Vegas isn't actually a film about four creepy old men who go to Las Vegas and abduct their adolescent doppelgangers in order to eat their brains and live forever. Which would make it The Hangover meets Cocoon. Cocoon's about old people who eat childrens' brains, right? It's been a while since I saw it. | Still, the Last Vegas guys go back a long way: here's a photo of them all as children. Although that's just an assumption based on a single image. There's nothing suggesting, for instance, that Last Vegas isn't actually a film about four creepy old men who go to Las Vegas and abduct their adolescent doppelgangers in order to eat their brains and live forever. Which would make it The Hangover meets Cocoon. Cocoon's about old people who eat childrens' brains, right? It's been a while since I saw it. |
| No, wait, because now Michael Douglas is falling into a swimming pool. The Hangover meets You've Been Framed? | No, wait, because now Michael Douglas is falling into a swimming pool. The Hangover meets You've Been Framed? |
| Last Vegas apparently also contains a scene where Robert De Niro aggressively confronts a mirror like in Taxi Driver and then shadow boxes like in Raging Bull. So Last Vegas is The Hangover meets Taxi Driver meets Raging Bull? This is getting confusing now. | Last Vegas apparently also contains a scene where Robert De Niro aggressively confronts a mirror like in Taxi Driver and then shadow boxes like in Raging Bull. So Last Vegas is The Hangover meets Taxi Driver meets Raging Bull? This is getting confusing now. |
| Now what? The Hangover meets the Euro 96 England squad? | Now what? The Hangover meets the Euro 96 England squad? |
| Actually, you know what? Last Vegas isn't really like The Hangover at all, is it? Nobody gets lost, there aren't any tigers or Mike Tyson cameos in it and, come to think of it, nobody seems to actually ever have a hangover. This is just a film about elderly people mucking around. Is it too late to start calling Last Vegas "Grown Ups meets Amour"? | Actually, you know what? Last Vegas isn't really like The Hangover at all, is it? Nobody gets lost, there aren't any tigers or Mike Tyson cameos in it and, come to think of it, nobody seems to actually ever have a hangover. This is just a film about elderly people mucking around. Is it too late to start calling Last Vegas "Grown Ups meets Amour"? |
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