I like that there is no redemption, nothing bright and cheerful, i like how cynical and how dark the Hangover is. I loved Zach Galifinkas commitment to his inherent awkwardness, and strangeness as much as i liked Cooper's self aware parody of his own genial privilege.

The homophobia, the racism, the misogyny would be problems to be solved only if the film thought these characters were heroes. They are assholes, the movie is a dark burlesque on white, male, middle class, well moneyed, privilege--consider it more Eating Raoul or Notes on the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills then Knocked Up or The 40 Year Old Virgin.

The difference b/w those two movies and this one, is that in those two everyone is nice, and redeemed, and sweet, things get righted, and desire is well modulated. There is a tenderness in those movies, that well done, is still sopforic. the savagery of this movie, and it's success in the market suggests that we are kind of sick of that kind of faux transgressive qaulity of Apataow, et al and see something genuinely naughty, if not earth shattering in it's taboo.

(also the movie is beautifully shot, the mise en scene is perfect, and the lighting is gorgeous)