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Film:  Hangover 2

I watched 4 scenes.  Flat from the get go.  A good example of why movies fall fail on a very technical, craft, writing level -- no action.  Each scene is just people talking with zero objective.  In one, Ed Helms and Bradley Cooper are in Ed Helms dentist office and there is activity, ie he is giving him a teeth cleaning, but no action.  Neither one wants anything in the scene.  It is pure exposition.  You cannot call Bradley Cooper wanting a hit of nitrous an objective.  He barely tries and I don't believe him anyway.  Then he steals the prescription pad as a coda, but this joke doesn't work.  Is the idea that Bradley Cooper wants drugs?  But then why is Bradley Cooper getting a tooth cleaning from his friend?  It makes no sense.  There are other ways to achieve this objective, if it were truly his objective. The blocking is terrible - because there is nothing to do.