Dude, where's the groom?
The movie starts out with a wedding that's in its last moments of preparation. The bride doesn't look happy as there are no groomsmen to be found. That's when they get the phone call. The guys are calling from the middle of the desert, and they don't have the groom. Rewind to 2 days earlier and this is where the story begins. Doug (Justin Bartha aka Riley from the National Treasure movies) is getting married and the Father in Law (Jeffrey Tambor) is happy to let his new son drive his prized possession of a car (think Ferris Bueler's Day Off) to Vegas for the bachelor party, with the strict instructions not to let anyone else drive it, including his own son Allen.
We then get introduced to Doug's 3 best friends. Allen (Zach Galifianakis), the bride's brother, is a total nutjob. We learn that he wears a jockstrap wherever he goes, might be a pedophile, and is definitely suicidal all in the first couple minutes of the movie. Phil (Bradley Cooper, who's played other assholes such as Sack from Wedding Crashers) is a teacher that steals his students' money for his trip to Vegas, and Stu (Ed Helms from The Office) is a dentist that has already signed over his balls to his girlfriend so he has to lie about going to Vegas.
Once in Vegas, Phil opts for a bigger room and bullies Stu into coughing up his credit card (which the succubus will be monitoring vigorously), and Allen wonders if this is the real Ceasar's Palace...as in the one Ceasar lived in. They go up to the roof, take some shots of Jager, and Allen gives a great speech about his new Wolf pack. The next scene the guys wake up in their hotel room, except the place is a mess. There's a chicken running around, Stu lost a tooth, there's a tiger in the bathroom, Doug is nowhere to be found, there's a baby in the closet, and they can't remember a thing about last night.
And that is the first ten. This is a Todd Philips movie, so you can expect the same kind of humor from Old School and Road trip. I couldn't stop laughing in this movie but I'm still not sure it deserves a sequel.
This is good, man. The wording could be a little more streamlined and you could interject a little more opinion in there if you wanted (it's a review, after all), but it's a good start!
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