The Hangover Part II
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 26, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
22
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMay 25, 2011
It's deja vu all over again in The Hangover Part II, only dirtier and more dangerous, if you can imagine that. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMay 25, 2011
Here, as in "The Hangover," the laughs aren't just staged, they're superlatively engineered. Read full review
80
TimeMary PolsMay 25, 2011
The chemistry this trio has is special; the premise of the sequel seems worn, but the way they work against and with each other is what provides the pleasure. Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMay 24, 2011
The unexpectedly wonderful thing about this sequel is that it actually improves on the jokes. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenMay 23, 2011
Manages to deliver more laughs than most of the competition. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinMay 26, 2011
Never as edgy as it imagines itself to be. Bangkok may swallow innocents whole, but director Todd Phillips has a lucrative franchise to protect, so the film's flirtation with the comic abyss gets compromised into something that looks more like a rock-solid mainstream comedy with a prominent dark side. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 25, 2011
It delivers what it's expected to deliver, and that's likely to make it a success with anyone who laughed his ass off two summers ago. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesMay 25, 2011
It's still fun to watch, but the first one was better. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn LevyMay 27, 2011
It's not that Hangover II is a notably bad movie. It's more that nothing in it seems to justify all the effort spent to add a new but nearly identical series of episodes to the original. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanMay 25, 2011
What seemed laugh-out-loud fresh in its unpredictable rudeness (at least intermittently) is now chuckle-to-yourself funny with about the same regularity. Read full review
60
SlateDana StevensMay 27, 2011
That minute and a half of still photos packs in more dense, economical laughs than all the laborious gross-outs and chase sequences that came before. Maybe The Hangover Part III should consider restricting itself to the slide-show format. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid DenbyMay 30, 2011
The Hangover Part II isn't a dud, exactly - some of it is very funny, and there are a few memorable jolts and outlandish dirty moments. But it feels, at times, like a routine adventure film set overseas. Read full review
50
USA TodayScott BowlesMay 26, 2011
Hangover II marks one of the most derivative sequels of the year: The opening and closing scenes are taken almost shot-for-shot from the original. Just substitute Asians for Americans, gross-outs for guffaws. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Gayle MacDonaldMay 26, 2011
Undeniably funny in parts, but the salacious spark and brilliant pacing of the original is off. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliMay 26, 2011
This dark and seedy follow-up to 2009's blockbuster comedy has a quite a retro message - suggesting that civilized men carry inside them a monster, a "demon" within, that requires constant taming. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 26, 2011
How could a 2009 raunchfest that slapped a grin on my face I couldn't unglue degenerate into a cold dish of sloppy seconds? Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyMay 25, 2011
Lost is the fresh, perverse, painfully politically incorrect R-rated pleasure that came when "The Hangover" ate up the summer of 2009. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyMay 25, 2011
Did I laugh? A handful of times. Did I cringe? For 101 minutes. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMay 25, 2011
It's clear that Phillips is betting heavily on funnymen Jeong and Galifianakis to hide his creative bankruptcy. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMay 25, 2011
A severe bout of sequelitis afflicts this eagerly awaited but only sporadically amusing follow-up. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaMay 25, 2011
This isn't even really a sequel to the hilarious 2009 comedy smash set in Las Vegas. It's virtually the same movie, just transferred to another continent and with the raunch wildly amped up. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickMay 25, 2011
I found this more elaborate, play-it-safe sequel far less fresh or funny. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreMay 24, 2011
Has a "been there, done that, jailed for it" feel. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMay 24, 2011
Is this some kind of a test? The Hangover, Part II plays like a challenge to the audience's capacity for raunchiness. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyMay 23, 2011
The price for an invite to Stu's (Ed Helms) Thai nuptials is fewer laughs and an air of menace and mystery that won't endear Part II to escapist-hungry audiences. Read full review
50
VarietyAndrew BarkerMay 23, 2011
The rote professionalism on display verges on cynicism, and despite some occasional sparks, this ranks as a considerable disappointment. Read full review
45
NPRIan BuckwalterJun 1, 2011
It's not that Part II is bad, exactly. If "The Hangover" had never existed, this movie might feel funnier than it does, if not quite as freshly hilarious. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMay 26, 2011
This Hangover is a doozy, not quite as much fun (or well-written) as the original, but neither does it lack for lunatic plot complications that could only spring from the minds of writers Phillips, Craig Mazin, and Scot Armstrong. Read full review
40
EmpireNick de SemlyenMay 26, 2011
According to Phillips, the 'Part II' in the title is a nod to the second "Godfather," which matched the genius of its forerunner. Ironically, his own sequel offer is one you should refuse. Read full review
40
MovielineStephanie ZacharekMay 26, 2011
It follows the same essential pattern as its predecessor, but the ingenious loopiness is gone; the mechanism behind it grinds instead of whirrs. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisMay 25, 2011
The funniest, most reckless moments in The Hangover Part II, the largely mirthless sequel to the 2009 hit "The Hangover," take place in the final credits. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMay 25, 2011
Phillips sticks so close to the formula of his original that even the characters are given to saying things like, "I can't believe this is happening again." Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 25, 2011
If not better, a Part II always has to be bigger. In the case of The Hangover Part II, that means raunchier, nastier, darker. It also means much more predictable, which is ruinous. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMay 25, 2011
Hangover II is more like a spitball meeting, a series of ideas that might, in theory, be good enough for a sequel, than it is an actual movie. Read full review
33
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 27, 2011
It's as if the filmmakers were hungover from the first film and wanted to make a violent action movie instead. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineNick SchagerMay 30, 2011
If The Hangover was a boorish blackout fantasy for our binge-drinking age, The Hangover Part II is something like the contents of a fraternity house's toilet the morning after an insane kegger-namely, regurgitated elements of a more entertaining prior adventure. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 25, 2011
The Hangover Part II offers absolutely nothing new to fans of the first film. In fact, once the comfort of familiarity has worn off, they may well feel as baited-and-switched as the patrons of one of the sketchier clubs the boys visit. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 27, 2011
What was fresh and surprising in Las Vegas turns rancid and predictable in Bangkok. Read full review
20
Village VoiceEric HynesMay 25, 2011
It's hard to imagine a more calculating, creatively bankrupt piece of real estate than The Hangover Part II. Read full review
10
SalonAndrew O'HehirMay 26, 2011
It's a dumb, ugly and, most of all, painfully unfunny movie. Read full review
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