- 9
This is so far the best comedy of the year.
—Rob Calvert Premiere
- 8
...a piercingly funny, twisted "whatever-happens-in-Vegas" caper that can't be faulted for not taking full advantage of its R rating.
—Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter
- 8
...will have you LOL-ing, ROFL-ing and, almost certainly, LMAO-ing.
—Eric Alt Maxim
- 8
...a funny movie, flat out, all the way through.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 8
...you can't help but laugh all the way through.
—Bill Gibron filmcritic.com
- 8
Funny? The Hangover rocks the house with funny.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 8
At once raucously free-wheeling and meticulously contrived, pic satisfies as a boys-gone-wild laff riot that also clicks as a seriocomic beat-the-clock detective story.
—Joe Leydon Variety
- 7
...overall it's more amusing than hilarious.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 7
...there is a sort of perverse brilliance or brilliant perverseness to be found in this story of a bachelor party gone terribly wrong.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 7
...the fun's well worth The Hangover...
—Kyle Smith New York Post
- 7
Though the film falters toward the end, The Hangover is a side-splitting adventure you'll still be laughing about the morning after.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 7
...a raunchy comic joyride of a movie.
—Leah Rozen People
- 6
...doesn't really run anywhere so much as amble. It's an agreeably unambitious comedy that might be called a romp, if that word didn't imply a little too much energy.
—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club
- 6
...for all the outrageousness and raunch in this Vegas-gone-wrong caper, one crucial element too often goes missing: Fun.
—Natasha Vargas-Cooper E!
- 6
For better and worse, it's coarse, vulgar boys-night-out ribaldry, and when it hits its inappropriate testosterone-y groove ... the film, like its titular condition, hurts pretty good.
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 6
...an unusually palatable entry in a rancid genre.
—Jim Ridley Village Voice
- 6
...an unusually palatable entry in a rancid genre.
—Jim Ridley LA Weekly
- 6
...often very funny.
—A. O. Scott New York Times
- 4
The movie smells like a hit, but honestly: ... did it need to be quite so blandly cast, or quite so lamely raunchy?
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune