Letter: 'Hangover' sequel a lot like original, but that was its appeal

Voice: Chris Rochow, Bay City

In regards to the movie review for “The Hangover Part II”: Although a big fan of “The Hangover,” I am going to try and keep this message as unbiased as possible.

I felt the review was a response to the trailer and the trailer only. After watching the movie there were many comparisons to the first, but that’s just the element of a movie. Also, the characters and the storyline itself were almost necessary for each movie, and anything else would have been an eyesore.

The article states that the monkey in the movie is comparible to the baby in the first movie and that Stu’s character is the same in that he wakes up with a facial disfiguration and finds out he had hooked up with a hooker.

Yes, it happens in both movies, but that’s Ed Helm’s character, mild-mannered sober but a wild-at-heart drunk. When certain people are drunk they usually have the one person who will always come out.

Yes, there were many elements of the movie that were the same and most times in a sequel it is a bad thing, but here I feel they nailed it.

I feel reviewer Christy Lemire was afraid “The Hangover Part II” was going to be a typical anticipated sequel, and it was, which was what made the movie so great.