The Hangover Part III
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 23, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
14
Negative:
19
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMay 22, 2013
Galifianakis, though, is the key here. Able to smash a scene to smithereens with the simplest of lines, the hirsute comic is as unpredictable as ever, yet takes director Todd Phillips’ bait to up the stakes. Read full review
77
Film.comLaremy LegelMay 22, 2013
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. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyMay 22, 2013
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. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMay 22, 2013
The Hangover Part III is more like "Beverly Hills Cop," a generic crime flick improved by comical touches that shouldn't fit the proceedings. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottMay 22, 2013
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. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMay 23, 2013
This is in fact the end – it is what is. We’ve had some good laughs. Let’s part amicably. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 22, 2013
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. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMay 22, 2013
Most of it plays like Jackass. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 22, 2013
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. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMay 21, 2013
As "Hangovers" go, Part III isn't challenging or unpleasant, just instantly forgettable. It won't take much to sleep this one off. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 23, 2013
The tonal problem of the second installment, which often resembled a drug-infested pulp thriller instead of a comedy, is also problematic here. Read full review
42
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezMay 22, 2013
It would be unfair and an exaggeration to say 'Part III' ends with a whimper, as there are a few moments to savor, but there's hardly a climatic bang and, sadly, absolutely nothing epic and explosive about this rather tepid and forgettable trilogy closer. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 22, 2013
It's an unnecessary movie, with some funny parts and a few callbacks to the original, as if visiting Las Vegas for a bit might bring back some of the original magic. It doesn't, but at least this time it seems like they're trying. A little, at least. Read full review
40
Village VoiceChris PackhamMay 21, 2013
With The Hangover Part III, director Todd Phillips continues to occupy an apt (and very lucrative) niche, casting rich, entitled fraternity dicks as underdog heroes beset by shrewish women, foreigners with funny accents, and even animals-often cute animals with big, dewy eyes. Read full review
40
Total FilmMatthew LeylandMay 21, 2013
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." Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberMay 21, 2013
Young viewers looking for unbridled raunch will be sadly disappointed, and so will other moviegoers expecting more than a few wan chuckles. This picture is like a brightly colored balloon with all the comic air seeping out. Read full review
40
VarietyAndrew BarkerMay 21, 2013
Ditching the hangovers, the backward structure, the fleshed-out characters and any sense of debauchery or fun, this installment instead just thrusts its long-suffering protagonists into a rote chase narrative, periodically pausing to trot out fan favorites for a curtain call. Read full review
40
EmpireOlly RichardsMay 20, 2013
Tonally a complete departure from the rest of the series, which is at once laudably brave and disappointingly unfunny. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonJun 6, 2013
The Hangover Part III plays more like a caper film — “Alan’s Eleven,” perhaps — than a comedy. While Phillips ably handles the action sequences, he and co-screenwriter Craig Mazin can’t juggle both genres in the screenplay. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 23, 2013
"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. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 23, 2013
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. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMay 22, 2013
The good news is that Ed Helms doesn’t wake up in a Tijuana brothel with an amputated leg and a donkey in the room. The bad news is that you’ll wish he had. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigMay 22, 2013
Nothing about this rote exercise feels remotely fresh. It's a re-tread of the 2009 original, sans the inspired lunacy. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 22, 2013
This third go-round for the "Wolf Pack" doesn't bother to Xerox the original 2009 hit comedy, as 2011's witless "Hangover 2" did. Instead, the new movie heads in different, if utterly formulaic, directions. So it's not terrible. It's just bad. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMay 23, 2013
To make matters worse, this third “Hangover” is dull. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMay 23, 2013
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. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 22, 2013
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.
20
The GuardianSteve RoseMay 27, 2013
This is less a caper than a trudge; a linear adventure that proceeds in fits and starts, with few surprises and fewer laughs. There's barely even a hangover. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 23, 2013
Turgid, unfunny catastrophe. Read full review
20
TimeMary PolsMay 23, 2013
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. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyMay 22, 2013
Chow is actually an apt metaphor for the movie - indescribably irritating and only in it for the money. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 21, 2013
Bad scripting, bad plotting, terrible joke formulation, and not a single character actually having a hangover until part-way through the end credits. What kind of a Hangover movie is this? Read full review
20
Time Out LondonDavid FearMay 21, 2013
Part III has curiously little interest in being even remotely funny. Read full review
16
Portland OregonianStephen WhittyMay 23, 2013
Galifianakis tries hard, and he has a few nice moments with guest star Melissa McCarthy, but this is a movie to make teetotalers of us all. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle SmithMay 22, 2013
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. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMay 22, 2013
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. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenMay 23, 2013
Not just bad, but weirdly, fascinatingly bad. Read full review
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