The Hangover (Two or three Spoilers in the third paragraph, you can read till there safely)

My special lady and I have been on vacation, but up until a few days ago it's all--two whole weeks--have been spent moving and taking care of business at our new home, which has been somewhat neglected. We gave our kid away to my mother-in-law on Wednesday, and since then we're all, "Now what do we do?" The answer is mostly play cards, also some hangman. But one night we went to the movies.

The Hangover is a really good movie. We hadn't gone to the movies in a while, and it was fun to laugh out loud, especially for me, because I'm often the only one in the theater to get a joke. There were plenty of jokes in this one. It was also funny to see them translated: thrice somebody accents the wrong syllable in the word "retard," so in the subtitles the word "delibas" (which actually means dumbass, not retard) was misspelled "debylas," as if being pronounced as only a dumbass would.

Two things disappointing about the movie (here come the spoilers): predictability and too happy an ending, both of which are typical, though, and expected. Knew-it-1 as soon as Alan opened the book on how to count cards I knew they'd end up having to do it at some point. Knew-it-2 as soon as they blanked out that early in the night I sensed that Alan's Jager wasn't kosher. Knew-it-3 as soon as they showed Doug with the hood I knew it wasn't Doug. Knew-it-4 as soon as Melissa was such a bitch I knew no happy ending for her was coming. That brings us to the too happy ending: uptight Stu breaks up with his girlfriend whom he inteded to propose to, and instead makes a date with a hooker-mom? Only in Hollywood...

On the other hand, I did not guess where Doug would be, which I should have because I know that high up hotel windows don't open. I highly recommend the movie and give it an 8 on IMDb.