The Hangover Part II
Weekend Box-Office: X-Men: First Class Earning Top Marks
It’s the post-Memorial Day crunch, and boy, are the top earners from last week mostly feeling the burn. To begin, X-Men: First Class took the weekend’s top spot with $56 million. Despite glowing reviews from critics and theater-goers alike, this top spot is actually weak earnings for the X-Men franchise; accounting for inflation, it made less money in its opening weekend than the original X-Men di...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Hangover Part II Hangs Over All Comers
It may be almost the same story as the last one, and according to critics, not as well told, but Memorial Day was a good time to be suffering from a blackout…The Hangover Part II pushed aside all competition, earning a total of $105.7 million during the holiday weekend. The original film had only a 3-day weekend in its initial release and steadily grew in popularity with word of mouth, but the ope...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Hangover Part II
After watching The Hangover Part II, I think it’s fair to compare it stylistically to a horror movie sequel. For instance, in this installment of The Hangover, the stakes are higher (body counts are always higher in horror sequels), and the death scenes are much more elaborate, dark and brutal (this incarnation of The Hangover loses some of the playful vulgarity of the original and trades it in fo...[Read More]
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