Maybe it’s just that I wasn’t the binge-drinking type in college (I was more into haunting the local movie theatres), but the comedies of Todd Phillips have never really spoken to me. I know that Old School has plenty of fans, especially among those who love Will Ferrell’s “Frank the Tank”, but personally I just don’t find getting plastered- and the consequences thereof- to be particularly funny. That said, The Hangover doesn’t look too bad as these things go. Sure, it traffics in a pampered frat boy’s fantasy of a bachelor party- plenty of booze, babes, and gambling, paid for by people who probably have more money than they deserve. However, the relatively low-wattage cast gives this a kind of ramshackle feel, and a potential for anything to happen that wouldn’t be there if Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn were top-lining. Besides, this got one more laugh out of me than the Brüno trailer (for the "Holocaust ring" joke, case you're wondering), so that’s something.