where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, June 5th, 2009
show: 1:50 pm
auditorium: 12
seat: 4th row, 8ht column
Four guys go to Las Vegas for a stag party since one of them will be getting married in two days' time. As they drink a toast, they unwittingly gulp down the date-rape drug, "roofies," and awaken the next day with no recollection of the previous night's wild shenanigans. Upon realizing that they are now one guy short of a four-pack, they frantically go about searching for and piecing together clues in the hope of finding the groom-to-be in time for his up-coming nuptial. In their mad dash around town, they are getting hints that what happened the night before is very convoluted, kinky and bizarre!
noteworthy scenes: 1.) The community service deal with the police department; 2.) The man in the trunk; and 3.) The Mike Tyson surveillance video.
audience reaction: The audience totally enjoyed this movie.
recommendation: Go see this movie.
spoiler alert! The security guards should have easily figured out where the mattress came from. Anybody who has stayed overnight at a casino hotel would know that the windows don't open. This is to prevent gamblers who lose it all from jumping to their deaths. I learned this from a co-worker on a Reno road trip we did years ago (also a four-pack team).
fyi: This is by far the funniest "road trip" movie that I've seen in the last few years. Another one that is really funny is "RAT RACE" from some years back.
word of advice: I think this movie outlines what could possibly go wrong if you give the date-rape drug to the wrong gender. Watch out!
Stay for the ending credits! It ties-in the missing pieces in a funny way through a picture montage.
tidbits: As Heather Graham's stripper character starts to breast-feed her baby, someone in the audience (not I) yells, "Yeah!" much to everyone else's amusement.
That poor, innocent baby subjected to an "arm manipulation" is going to grow up ashamed and disturbed!
The motto: "What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas," apparently does not apply to other cities in Nevada like, say for instance, Reno .... Because what I did in Reno got blabbed about at work! Yup, no more road trips for me--I learned my lesson. Thank you.
