• Friday, June 05, 2009

• Language:

  English

• Runtime:

  100 min

2009

Doug (Justin Bartha) is about to be married, so his friends -- Stu (Ed Helms), a dentist planning on proposing to his girlfriend of three years, Phil (Bradley Cooper), a schoolteacher bored of the married life, and Doug's soon to be brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis), who is smart yet socially-inept -- take him to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Stu's girlfriend is very controlling, thereby forcing Stu to lie to her about their destination.

Goofs

• Right after the scene where the guys let Mr. Chow out of the trunk. Alan was sitting against the front wheel of the car. As the camera angle changed he was sitting against the door. And as the camera angle changed once more, he was sitting in front of the wheel again.
• When they are preparing the steak for the tiger it is very soft and floppy, Allan is even able to fold it in half. However, when Stu takes the steak to be fed to the tiger it is very stiff, indicating that it is a prop.
• There were no marks on Alan's face where the Taser probes were embedded.
• During the scene with Mike Tyson, you can see the reflection of the crew and equipment in Phil's sunglasses.
• The damage to the car keeps changing during the movie.
• During the scene in the convenience store, right after the clerk gives the total for the purchase, a boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen for about half a second.
• The tiger scratches on Phil's neck changes angles.
• When talking to Dr. Valsh in the hospital scene, Phil starts to write down "Best Little Chapel" on a piece of paper. He then asks Dr. Valsh where it is. After he tells Phil to get a map, the following shot of the piece of paper has nothing written on it and Phil rewrites "Best Little Chapel".
• When the guys push the car to Mike Tyson's house, lighting equipment, the camera and crew members are reflected on the side of the car.
• Jade has bright pink nail polish on while she is dancing for Stu, but in the wedding photos at the end of the movie she isn't wearing nail polish and the wedding to Stu was supposed to be on her break from work.

Taglines

• Feel it June 5
• Some guys just can't handle Vegas
• Am I missing a tooth?
• I stole a police car?!
• Whose baby is this?

Trivias

• Will be Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha's third film together as they starred in both New York, I Love You (2009) and best friends in Failure to Launch (2006).
• During filming in Las Vegas, one of the Mercedes (a very beat up and distinctive one) was stolen from the lot where the vehicles were being kept. The next day the production was filming driving sequences and traffic was being held up by the local police. A production person noticed that a very distinctive Mercedes was part of the cars being held, the police were told, the driver was arrested and the car was recovered.
• Three sets of twins and a dummy were used to portray the baby.
• During the first scene involving Las Vegas, the Danzig song "Thirteen" is played. The room number the characters stay in is room "2452", which added together separately equals "13". Thirteen is a very unlucky number in Las Vegas, hence the movie's entire plot.
• One of the songs from the movie is "Can't Tell Me Nothing" by Kanye West. One of the stars, Zach Galifianakis was actually paid by West to make an alternative music video for the song.
• No effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
• Director Cameo: [Todd Phillips] A guy making out with a woman in an elevator at the hotel.
• Plans for a sequel had already been made before this film was even in theaters.
• Director Trademark: [Todd Phillips] [band] The foul-mouthed band featured near the end of the movie is the "Dan Band", the same band from Frank's wedding in the movie Old School (2003).
• When Zach Galifianakis (Alan) makes the joke about him not being allowed near schools or a Chuck E. Cheese, that is a direct reference to one of his staple jokes in his stand up: "When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E. Cheese."