The Hangover Part III

The Hangover Part III is a 2013 American action comedy movie. It serves as the third and final installment in The Hangover trilogy and the sequel to The Hangover Part II (2011). The film was co-produced and directed by Todd Phillips from a script he wrote with Craig Mazin and stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Justin Bartha, Mike Epps, Sasha Barrese, Gillian Vigman, Mike Vallely, Grant Holmquist, Jamie Chung, Sondra Currie, Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, and Phillips reprising their roles from the previous two installments joined by Melissa McCarthy and John Goodman.

The film is darker in tone than the previous two instalments and follows the "Wolfpack" (Phil, Stu, Doug, and Alan) as they try to get Alan the help he needs after facing a mental breakdown, brought on from the bachelor party in Bangkok. However, things go awry when an incident from the original film comes back to haunt them.

The Hangover Part III was announced days before the release of The Hangover Part II and Mazin, who co-wrote Part II, was brought on board. In January 2012, the principal actors re-signed to star. In March 2012, Warner Bros. announced a U.S. Memorial Weekend release. The supporting roles were cast between June and September 2012. Principal photography began in September 2012 in Los Angeles, California before moving to Nogales, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, concluding that November. The film had its world premiere on May 20, 2013, in Los Angeles, California, and was theatrically released worldwide on May 23, 2013, by Warner Bros. Pictures. At the box office, the film earned $362 million against a production budget of $103 million. It received generally negative reviews from critics, who found it a disappointing conclusion to the trilogy.

In Thailand, Leslie Chow escapes from prison during a prison riot by digging a hole in a wall. Meanwhile, back in the United States, Alan Garner causes a multi-car freeway pileup after he purchases a giraffe and accidentally decapitates it on a low overpass. Furious about the incident, Alan's father Sid, gets into an argument with him, which causes him to die of a heart attack. Meanwhile, Alan's brother-in-law Doug Billings informs their friends Phil Wenneck and Stu Price that Alan has been off his ADHD medication for six months and is out of control. The group attends an intervention in which Alan agrees to visit a rehabilitation facility in Arizona and seek treatment as long as the "Wolfpack" take him there.

Phil's minivan is rammed off the road by a rental truck and the Wolfpack is taken hostage. Crime lord Marshall later confronts them. He says that weeks after their shenanigans in Las Vegas, Chow hijacked half of a $42 million gold heist, and, seeing how Alan has been the only one to communicate with Chow during his imprisonment, deduced that they could locate him and retrieve the gold. Marshall takes Doug as insurance and gives the others three days to find Chow, or else Doug will be killed. Alan sets up a meeting with Chow in Tijuana, where Stu and Phil hide and attempt to drug him. However, Alan accidentally reveals their location and Chow forces them to confess they are working for Marshall. Chow plans to retrieve the stolen gold from the basement of a Mexican villa he previously owned. They break into the house and retrieve the gold, but Chow double-crosses them by locking them in the basement, resetting the security system, and escaping in Phil's minivan. They are arrested but are mysteriously released from the police station. A limousine picks them up and takes them back to the same villa they helped Chow break into, where they discover that Chow had deceived them: the villa actually belonged to Marshall the entire time, and the gold they stole was the other half that Chow didn't get from Marshall. He spares the group for the oversight but kills his head enforcer, "Black Doug," after failing to stop the four, reminding them of their now two-day deadline.

The trio tracks Phil's phone, which was left in the minivan, and find it left outside a pawn shop in Las Vegas. The owner, Cassie, says that Chow traded a gold brick for only $18,000, far less than its actual $400,000 value and gives them a business card for an escort service Chow is using. Using Stu's former lover Jade as their contact, they learn that Chow is barricaded in the penthouse suite of Caesars Palace. Phil and Alan sneak into his suite from the roof, but Chow escapes, jumping from the balcony and parachuting down to the Strip. Stu catches up to him, locking him in the trunk of Marshall's limousine. The trio take the gold and meet with Marshall, who releases Doug when they reveal they cannot secure the original half as Chow lost it in Bangkok. Although Marshall had promised not to harm Chow, he shoots up the trunk of the car, presumably killing him. However, it was revealed that Alan had given Chow a chance to escape the trunk through a backseat compartment and armed him with a gun. Marshall finds the trunk empty before Chow emerges from the limo moonroof and kills him and his bodyguard. Chow spares Phil, Stu, and Doug because Alan saved his life. Chow gives Alan a gold bar, but he declines and ends his friendship with Chow due to his bad influence. While retrieving Phil's minivan from the pawnshop, Alan stays behind to date Cassie. Six months later, before his wedding, Alan leaves the Wolfpack.

The Wolfpack, with Cassie in tow, later stage another wild party that they cannot remember. Stu awakens to find himself wearing a lady's thong and breast implants. Alan remembers that the wedding cake was a gift from Chow, who emerges from the bathroom naked, wielding a katana. His monkey drops from the ceiling onto Stu, startling him.

Additionally, director Todd Phillips reprises his role from the first film as Mr. Creepy.