Todd Phillips way overrates his “Hangover”

Todd Phillips

The Hangover is arguably the most overhyped comedy to come along since the dawn of the 21st Century. It had a smattering of funny moments but in five years, at most, it will be forgotten. It is certainly not on a par with this century’s fine comedies like Borat, Knocked Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, In the Loop, A Mighty Wind, Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, High Fidelity, Best in Show. (500) Days of Summer, Superbad, The Royal Tenenbaums, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Amelie, Nurse Betty and O Brother Where Art Thou.

Of course, recent film history has proved you don’t have to make a good comedy to make a sequel. Latest case in point is the fact there is going to be The Hangover Part II. Yet for some reason director Todd Phillips found the cohones to compare his two films to another two-parter. He had the nerve to tell MTC:

“I think there are very few sequels that have been made that live up to or exceed their first film. The Godfather is the first one…We had always planned on calling it The Hangover 2 and when we finished the script, I changed the cover page and wrote The Hangover Part II, because I think the film lives up to or exceeds the first one. It was very much a nod to The Godfather.”