By now we've all read plenty of reviews of "The Hangover: Part II" saying it's a repeat of the first, so I don't need to mention the stars (Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms) and I don't need to include that it made over $100 million dollars in the domestic box office by Sunday ($137.4 million to be precise). It's still a great movie in its own right, and the characters are equally defined and hilarious in this installment.
What I will do instead is wonder aloud about the numerous Billy Joel references in the movie
- Above Alan's bed is a giant poster of the cover art to Billy Joel's 1980 album "Glass Houses"
- During one of the landscape montages, Billy Joel's 1989 song "The Downeaster Alexa" plays (the irony about this, is that I was watching it in a theater on Nantucket, one of the places in the song, but unfortunately no one else in the theater picked up on that)
- Stu's song in this movie is "Alan Town" a clever play on Billy Joel's 1982 song "Allentown"
I'm sure there are more references that I didn't pick up on, but it's cool that Todd Phillips threw them in there. I'm sure I'll be watching it again, so I can pick up more of the references and I can actually try and hear all of the jokes over every laughing this time.
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