I’ve been keeping up with Tucker Max’s I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell blog, which has served to make me very excited about the movie. Lately two things have been worrying me: 1) is it going to be just like the Hangover? and 2) I’m really expecting good things, which is often a bad thing (e.g. I heard so much great buzz about the Hangover that I was disappointed that it wasn’t better than it was).
The latter point is still to be determined, but today Tucker addressed the former:
This actually leads me to a point some people have asked me about: How similar is IHTSBIH to The Hangover?
I guess I can see why, if you only read the loglines, you might think the movies are similar. The Hangover is about three guys and what happens in the aftermath of a bachelor party in Vegas. IHTSBIH is about three guys who go on a bachelor party, and how that affects their friendships. OK fine, if you stop there, I guess they seem similar. But trust me on this: These two movies are about as different as two movies can be, while still being in the same basic genre (the R-rated male comedy). The Hangover is just like most all other Hollywood comedies, except its funnier. The piece of feedback we get the most consistently across all screenings is this, “I can’t really describe this in terms of another movie–it’s not like any other movie.”
This is good news, but it enhances my worries related to point 2.
