Rating: 7 out of 10, they take almost the exact same story and transport it to Bangkok, Thailand. They try to capitalize on the popularity of the Galifinakis character from the first movie by trying to focus too much on him. While he does have the best lines in the movie as the wildly inappropriate Alan, the charm of the first movie was the interplay of all three leads, which is missing here. Cooper obviously just took this for the paycheck and doesn't really expend a great deal of effort. Helms is suitably manic as he is once again dragged into a morass where he doubts his sanity. The subplots that were so cool in the first movie are not as effective. A chain smoking monkey, a she-male prostitute, and Mike Tyson singing - come on. All this being said, this movie is still very funny.
MVP: Helms as the buttoned down Stu who once again finds his dark side
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