REVIEW

First Poster for HARRY….THE HANGOVER: PART 3

By Matt Oakes · March 6, 2013

The Hangover franchise may have banked quite a bit of cash for The Hangover: Part 2, $254.4 million following an epic $85.9 million opening weekend, but it didn’t leave a good taste in audience’s mouths and most have taken to slamming it for being an unimaginative do-over of the original. Well director Todd Phillips took this criticism to heart and has promised that the third and final installment, The Hangover: Part 3, won’t follow the blacked-out night followed by a hungover trail of clues formula. Instead, he’s suggested that it will involve the wolf pack breaking Alan out of a mental institution. Whether that’s how the chips will fall when the movie is finally released, we’ll see but the first marketing poster definitely suggests that they’re going a new route and are taking new inspiration.

This poster is clearly a tip of the hat to the poster art from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and I’m totally on-board the imitation bus. It worked tremendously with the marketing for The Muppets who spoofed Twilight, Paranormal Activity, Green Lantern and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. If the entirety of the Hangover media blitz follows suit and goes the mockery route, we could be in store for some good stuff.

Anyone unfamiliar with Zack Galifinikas‘ music video for Kayne West‘s ‘Cant Tell Me Nothing’ or his faux-cable-access talk show Between Two Ferns will be sure that the comedian actor isn’t unfamiliar with the art of mockery and should check them out here:

Zack Galifinikas’ version of Kayne West’s ‘Cant Tell Me Nothing’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2bCc0EGP6U

Zack Galifinikas interviewing Steve Carrell on Between Two Ferns