One of the more-intriguing releases on the 2009 movie calendar is The Hangover, a new comedy from Old School director Todd Phillips. After hitting the jackpot in 2003 with the help of newly minted "frat pack" members Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Luke Wilson, Phillips faltered with his next two releases, Starsky & Hutch and School for Scoundrels, before reportedly being booted from the Borat director's chair due to alleged "creative differences" with star Sacha Baron Cohen.
It seems appropriate, then, that Phillips chose to return to familiar territory for The Hangover, a raucous, irreverent comedy about three guys who throw an epic bachelor party for their buddy -- only to awaken the next day to find that the groom-to-be has vanished.
ReelzChannel.com recently stopped by The Hangover's set at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, where we spoke with Phillips and stars Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Justin Bartha. Do they have a shot at restoring Phillips' Old School comedy mojo? Bartha, who together with Nicolas Cage's wig provided much of the comic relief in both National Treasure flicks, thinks so. He went so far as to guarantee that The Hangover would be the funniest movie of 2009. Funnier than Underworld: Rise of the Lycans? Good luck.
Check back soon for an in-depth preview of The Hangover, which opens nationwide on June 5, 2009.