THE HANGOVER

INTRODUCING ALAN

Their best friend Doug (Justin Bartha) is about to get hitched and so Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Stu (Ed Helms), along with Doug’s brother-in-law-to-be Alan (Zach Galifianakis), take off to Las Vegas for a bachelor weekend. New to the group, man-child Alan tries his best to fit in and ends up stealing the show with his cocky one-liners. Remember the time he asks the receptionist at the Caesar’s Palace hotel: “Did Caesar live here?”

BLOOD BROTHERS HIT THE ROOF

Before the bachelor night takes off, the quartet meet for a round of shots on the roof. Just as Phil is about to propose a toast, Alan cuts him off, fishes out a tattered piece of paper from his satchel (“even Indiana Jones uses one”, he had quipped earlier on) and reads out loud welcoming the three to his Wolf Pack. “Four of us wolves, running around the desert together, in Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine,” Alan blurts out, whipping out a knife and slitting his palm for his ‘Blood Brothers’!

BAGH MAMA IN THE BATHROOM

It’s pandemonium in their $4,200-a-night villa the next morning. The TV’s broken, the sofa’s on fire, a hen is running amok, Alan’s without his pants, Stu’s missing a tooth, there’s a baby in the closet, Doug can’t be found.... And then? Alan goes to pee in the bathroom and finds a tiger next to him. Growl!

STU AND HIS ‘WIFE’

The three men — and the baby — go looking for Doug and discover that Stu married a stripper the night before and the baby is hers! Stu freaks out when he sees Jade (Heather Graham) wearing his grandmom’s prized Holocaust ring, the one he intends to give to his girlfriend Melissa.

GUN STUN

Picked up by the cops, the three are allowed to go free on one condition: they have to be the guinea pigs for a taser demo involving kids. While Phil and Stu are KO-ed in the first shot, Alan holds on for a couple of stunners. Ouch!

STU’S LULLABY

Back in the hotel, Stu sings a song for the tiger and Doug: What do tigers dream of when they take a little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras? Or Halle Berry in her catwoman suit? Well don’t you worry your pretty striped head, we’re gonna get you back to Tyson and your cosy tiger bed, and then we’re gonna find our best friend Doug, and then we’re gonna give him a best friend hug....

TYSON AND HIS TIGER

Mike Tyson gives them an ultimatum to get his tiger back and the trio go crazy trying to smuggle out the animal from the hotel bathroom to the car and into Tyson’s mansion. Once there, the boxing champ shows them a video of how they had stolen the tiger in the first place. To score brownie points, Phil starts describing Tyson’s pet as an “elegant creature” just as images of him doing unmentionable things to the tiger flash on the screen!

BLACKJACK BUDS

To repay smuggler Leslie Chow, who claims they took off with his cash that night in exchange of Doug, the three decide to gamble. Alan and his little Blackjack book take over. Out comes an ironed suit and with sideswept hair and set (bearded) jaw, Alan metamorphoses from bumbling idiot to Blackjack genius.

FINDING DOUG

Just as Phil is about to tell Doug’s fiancee Tracy that they have lost him, Stu has an epiphanic moment about where Doug can be. The three rush back to the hotel, run up to the terrace and find Doug right there — sunburnt and crying like a baby!

THE WEDDING SONG

The four make it back to the wedding just in time and after Doug and Tracy become man and wife, everyone gets together for a dance. The singer clearly has other things on his mind, for the lyrics go: I take you to the candy shop, I’ll let you lick the lollipop, Go ’head girl, don’t you stop, Keep goin ’til you hit the spot. And then, out comes the camera, of course!

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ALAN’s SPEECH FOR STU

Stu is about to get hitched with the pretty Lauren and the four friends find themselves in Thailand for the wedding. After their Vegas escapade, Stu decides to play it safe by opting for a quiet dinner for family and friends. But Alan nearly spills the beans about Stu’s impulsive marriage to a stripper in Vegas — “I can’t even tell you what we’ve been through because we made a pact, more important than blood. What I can tell you is this. This is not Stu’s first marriage. There was a whore in Las Vegas a couple of years ago….”

THE MORNING AFTER

Knocked out by spiked marshmallows, Phil, Stu and Alan wake up the next morning in a seedy Bangkok hotel! Alan’s head is shaved, Stu has a tattoo on his face and Chow is in the room with a smoking monkey thrown into the mix. What’s worse? Chow takes a snort of cocaine and drops dead!

TEDDY THE MONK

The man missing this time? Stu’s would-be bro-in-law Teddy. The three go looking for him and end up with a Buddhist monk wearing Teddy’s sweatshirt instead! They go to return the monk to his monastery, but are beaten up for kidnapping him in the first place.

STU’S HE-SHE MOMENT

Stu discovers that he had sex with a Thai ladyboy the previous night. He falls off his chair when the ladyboy flashes his/her “assets” at him. LOL!

CHOW IN THE ICE-BOX

The trio had stashed Chow’s “dead body” in the hotel’s ice machine. Imagine their shock when he suddenly pops out and starts hitting them furiously. Dead man beating.

MONKEY BUSINESS

Teddy will be returned only when Chow gives the bank codes to gangster Kingsley. The catch? The codes are with the smoking monkey. It’s one hell of a car chase when the four attempt to smuggle the monkey out from the clutches of its Russian mafia owners. Remember Alan getting all emotional while leaving the chimp at an animal orphanage?

FINDING TEDDY

Stu has an epiphany, again, leading to the discovery of Teddy passed out in the lift of the hotel they had woken up in. But, minus a finger!

THE ENTRY

The four hire Chow’s speedboat and zoom off for Stu’s wedding. They make it just in time, crash-landing the boat on the lawn!

TYSON IN THE HOUSE

Alan has a surprise for Stu at his wedding: Mike Tyson doing a little jig and singing One Night In Bangkok — hopelessly out of tune. Upper cut to the jaw, man.

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