Hangover 3 Critic Review

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1. Film.com
   Laremy Legel
   May 22, 2013
   77
   The franchise is sent off in style, a reminder of why it earned such praise and affection in the first place, the wolfpack giving us one final howl at the moon.
   
   
2. Entertainment Weekly
   Chris Nashawaty
   May 22, 2013
   67
   You should stick around for the end credits because there's a Helms sight gag that's absolutely priceless. The movie could've used more laughs like that one.
   
   
3. Tampa Bay Times
   Steve Persall
   May 22, 2013
   67
   The Hangover Part III is more like "Beverly Hills Cop," a generic crime flick improved by comical touches that shouldn't fit the proceedings.
   
   
4. New Orleans Times-Picayune
   Mike Scott
   May 22, 2013
   60
   And so the real question isn't whether director Todd Phillips' third -- and, he insists, the final -- installment in the unabashedly crude, very R-rated comedy trilogy is funny. Of course, it is.
   
   
5. Austin Chronicle
   Kimberley Jones
   May 23, 2013
   50
   This is in fact the end – it is what is. We’ve had some good laughs. Let’s part amicably.
   
   
6. The A.V. Club
   A.A. Dowd
   May 22, 2013
   50
   The best that can be said for the third, supposedly final chapter is that it jettisons the retracing-our-steps scenario of the 2009 original and its 2011 carbon-copy sequel. There is, in other words, no hangover in The Hangover Part III.
   
   
7. Philadelphia Inquirer
   Steven Rea
   May 22, 2013
   50
   Most of it plays like Jackass.
   
   
8. Chicago Sun-Times
   Richard Roeper
   May 22, 2013
   50
   Director Todd Phillips has delivered a film so different from the first two, one could even ask if this is even supposed to be a comedy. I'm not saying it's an unfunny comedy wannabe; I'm saying it plays more like a straightforward, real-world thriller with a few laughs than a hard-R slapstick farce.
   
   
   
9. Movie Nation
   Roger Moore
   May 21, 2013
   50
   As "Hangovers" go, Part III isn't challenging or unpleasant, just instantly forgettable. It won't take much to sleep this one off.
   
   
10. Christian Science Monitor
    Peter Rainer
    May 23, 2013
    42
    The tonal problem of the second installment, which often resembled a drug-infested pulp thriller instead of a comedy, is also problematic here.
    
    
11. Total Film
    Matthew Leyland
    May 21, 2013
    40
    Less abrasive than Part II, but lacking any of Part I's freshness, this is the most lacklustre return-to-Vegas, trilogy-closing caper since "Ocean's Thirteen."
    
    
12. ReelViews
    James Berardinelli
    May 23, 2013
    38
    "The Hangover" was high octane fun. "The Hangover Part II," despite its repetitive nature, was enjoyable. The Hangover Part III is some kind of hideous experiment in mass consumer torture.
    
    
13. Rolling Stone
    Peter Travers
    May 23, 2013
    38
    What happened, bitches? Didn't the letdown of The Hangover Part II – basically Part I set in Thailand but minus the laughs – teach you anything? Guess not.
    
    
14. Miami Herald
    Rene Rodriguez
    May 23, 2013
    25
    There’s exactly one good scene in all of The Hangover Part III, a hilarious bit of business halfway during the end credits that reminds you what made the original film so good.
    
    
15. San Francisco Chronicle
    Mick LaSalle
    May 22, 2013
    25
    If the first "Hangover" movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.
    
    
16. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Bilge Ebiri
    May 23, 2013
    20
    Turgid, unfunny catastrophe.
    
    
17. Time
    Mary Pols
    May 23, 2013
    20
    The Hangover Part III gives off such a stench of creative decay that it hardly seems possible that even Phillips or his co-writers have any use for the movie themselves. If a movie can be self-loathing and self-destructive, it’s this one.
    
    
18. Los Angeles Times
    Betsy Sharkey
    May 22, 2013
    20
    Chow is actually an apt metaphor for the movie - indescribably irritating and only in it for the money.
    
    
19. New York Post
    Kyle Smith
    May 22, 2013
    12
    The good news is that The Hangover Part III isn't a rerun like the second episode. The bad news is everything else. For all the promise of mayhem and WTF moments, the final episode hits you with all the force of a warm can of O'Doul's.
    
    
20. The New York Times
    Stephen Holden
    May 22, 2013
    10
    The Hangover Part III, directed by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he wrote with Craig Mazin, is a dull, lazy walkthrough that along with "The Big Wedding" has a claim to be the year's worst star-driven movie.
    
    
21. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Rick Groen
    May 23, 2013
    0
    Not just bad, but weirdly, fascinatingly bad.

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