Following up watching The Hangover, Part II, I decided to finish off the series by watching The Hangover, Part III.

Fortunately, the premise of the story is different from the first and second parts, and the movie does not begin with a wedding gone wrong. Instead, the plot involves Alan’s friends proposing an intervention into his life due to his unacceptable behavior. Alan agrees, and the Wolf Pack drive to drop him off at a rehabilitation facility.

However, their trip doesn’t go as planned when they are attacked due to their connection with international criminal Chow. A member of the Wolf Pack gets kidnapped, and the rest go out to hunt for Chow, who is needed for the safe return of their friend.

According to how this movie ends, it seems like this will be the last installment in the Hangover series. I think it was a good idea to end the series here, as, although I enjoyed the entire Hangover series, the quality of the story of the movies seemed to gradually decrease. Instead of coming up with genuinely attention-grabbing and compelling plot progression, the final movie felt as if it relied more on absurd and extreme moments to keep the viewers watching.

On top of that, the humor in the movie seems to have slightly degraded as well. Instead of using the clever wit found in the previous movies, it seems like now they resort more to crude humor. Of course, this is expected because the main characters are now Alan and Chow, both of whom generally don’t demonstrate brilliant wit. However, I still think that the movie could have integrated the humor in a smarter manner.

I think that this movie is somewhat undeserving of the Hangover name. Of course, because the second part of the movie was called The Hangover, Part II, it’s only logical that the sequel is Part III. However, I think the name The Hangover was a little bit too specific to be a broad movie series, and almost feel as if this movie is as successful as it was because of its ties with the original The Hangover. Regardless, the basis of the criticism is primarily because of how amazing the first movie was, and from a more neutral standpoint, The Hangover, Part III is, in my opinion, still a great movie.

A lot of the themes and the main storyline of this movie relies heavily on the fact that you have already watched the previous Hangover movies, so if you plan on watching The Hangover, Part III, I encourage you to watch the previous two movies first. Circularly, if you watched the first two movies, I recommend watching the third part, as I feel like it brings the whole story full circle.