http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hangover:_Part_IIReceptionThe Hangover: Part II has received generally negative reviews. The review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes, gives the film a score of 32% based on 141 reviews from critics with a rating average of 4.9 out of 10. The website's critical consensus is that the film is "a crueler, darker, raunchier carbon copy of the first installment" and "lacks the element of surprise -- and most of the joy -- that helped make the original a hit."
Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 46 based on 33 reviews.
Andrew Barker of
Variety gave the film a negative review, stating, "The stock dismissal "more of the same" has rarely been more accurately applied to a sequel than to The Hangover: Part II, which ranks as little more than a faded copy of its predecessor superimposed on a more brightly colored background".
Christy Lemire of the Associated Press said, "Giving the people what they want is one thing. Making nearly the exact same movie a second time, but shifting the setting to Thailand, is just ... what, lazy? Arrogant? Maybe a combination of the two".
Roger Ebert of the
Chicago Sun-Times also gave the film a negative review stating, "The Hangover: Part II plays like a challenge to the audience's capacity for raunchiness. It gets laughs, but some of them are in disbelief".
Conversely
Michael Rechtshaffen of
The Hollywood Reporter gave The Hangover: Part II a positive review remarking, "What happens in Bangkok isn't as much fun as when it happened in Vegas, but it's still worth the trip".
Lou Lumenick of the
New York Post said, "There are definitely laughs to be had, even if the three leads often seem to be going through the motions".
