HANGOVER PART II BS2

 Here's a bs2 from memory -- plus heavily cribbed from Wikipedia.

GENRE: Golden Fleece
Fleece:  Teddy, the fiance' younger brother



SETUP:
Two years after the Las Vegas incident, Stu (Ed Helms), Phil (Bradley Cooper), Doug (Justin Bartha) are planning to go to Thailand for Stu's wedding to Lauren. Stu doesn't want a bachelor party. And hasn't invited Alan. He's playing it safe.

THEME STATED:
The theme is really hit upon at  the debate when the Lauren's father compares Stu to 'bland rice'. (It's likely mentioned at the diner scene by Bradley Cooper when Stu says he doesn't want a bachelor party).

Through embracing his inner demons and realize they are part of him,  he will ultimately be reborn and earn the respect of Lauren's father.

Morale Premise -- Surpressing our darker-side leads to a boring life; but embracing all facets of ourselves leads to an excitement and respect. 


CATALYST:
Doug convinces Stu to invite Alan.They visit Alan at his house. He's excited. We already sense this is trouble.

(IT'S KIND OF A WEAK CATALYT -- but since we start with the wedding already in motion, it's really what kicks the story out of the ordinary world into 'wolfpack' world)

DEBATE:
Much to Alan's dismay, they are joined by Lauren's younger brother, Teddy (Mason Lee) at the airport. Alan apparently wants to keep the 'wolfpack' to just the guys.

They arrive in Thailand. At the rehearsal dinner, during Lauren's father's (Nirut Sirijanya) toast, he shows his disapproval of Stu by comparing him to rice porridge.

At the end of the night, Stu hesitantly joins Phil, Doug, Alan and Teddy for a beer on the beach.

Sitting at a campfire and roasting marshmallows, the group toast to Stu and Lauren's future happiness.

BREAK INTO ACT 2:

The following morning, Phil, Stu and Alan, along with gangster Chow (Ken Jeong) who Alan befriended after Las Vegas and who has come to visit them and a chain-smoking capuchin monkey, awaken in a dirty hotel room in Bangkok. Stu has a Mike Tyson style face tattoo, and Alan's head is completely shaven. However, they cannot find Teddy, only discovering his severed finger. Chow begins recalling the events of the prior night, but his heart stops after snorting a line of cocaine. Panicked, the trio hide Chow's body in an ice machine.

Through a tip from Doug (who left early the last night and is still in Thailand), they go to a prison to pick up Teddy but are given a wheelchair-bound elderly Buddhist monk, who knows more about what happened, but does not reveal anything: he has taken a vow of silence, and rejects also an alternative such as writing something down.

After finding a business card, they travel to a neighborhood smoldering in ruins. They enter a nearby tattoo parlor, where they learn that they had started a fight that escalated into a riot. The trio then return the monk to his Buddhist temple, where they are encouraged by the head monk to meditate.

Alan is able to recall a strip club that they had gone to. There, they learn that Stu had engaged in sex with a tranny prostitute.

Upon exiting, the trio is attacked by two Russian mobsters from whom they had stolen the monkey, and Phil is shot in the arm.

After Phil is treated at a clinic, Alan confesses that he had drugged some of the marshmallows from the previous night with muscle relaxants and ADHD medication in order to sedate Teddy but accidentally mixed up the bags.


MIDPOINT:
After noticing an address and time point for a meeting written on Alan's stomach, the trio meet up with another gangster, Kingsley (Paul Giamatti), who demands Chow's bank account code and password by the next morning in exchange for Teddy.

BAD GUYS CLOSE IN:
They return to the hotel to try to find Chow's password, only to discover that he is still alive.

They steal the monkey (who had the code inside his jacket) back from the Russian mobsters through a violent car chase, during which the monkey is shot and injured.

After taking the code and leaving the monkey at a veterinary clinic, the group complete the deal with Kingsley.

Suddenly, Interpol agents appear and arrest Chow.

ALL IS LOST:

Kingsley turns out to be an undercover agent, who tells the trio that the police have searched all day for Teddy but were unable to find him.

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL:
Desperate and out of clues, Phil once again calls Doug's wife Tracy.

BREAK INTO ACT 3:
Stu then has an epiphany and the trio rushes back to the hotel and find Teddy in the elevator unharmed (albeit still missing a finger).

Teddy had woken up in the middle of the night to get more ice for his severed finger (after the first bucket of ice had melted) but became trapped after the power went out.

The four use Chow's speedboat, the keys for which were in Teddy's pocket, to travel back to the wedding reception.

Arriving just as Lauren's father is about to cancel the wedding, Stu makes a defiant speech where he rejects being boring and instead states that he is in fact quite wild. Impressed,

Lauren's father gives the couple his blessing. After the wedding continues on, Alan presents Stu with a special gift at the post-reception dance: a musical guest performance by Mike Tyson. Teddy later discovers that he had taken many pictures during the night on his mobile phone.


CLOSING IMAGE:
Once again, the group agrees to look at the pictures together once before erasing the evidence of their exploits.