The Hangover Part II is a 2011 American black comedy film that follow up to 2009's The Hangover. The film super stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis. Todd Phillips directed a script composed by him, Craig Mazin and Scot Armstrong. The film was manufactured by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures. Manufacturing started in October 2010 and the film was released within the United States on May 26, 2011. A few years when their escapade in Las Vegas, Stu (Ed Helms), Phil (Bradley Cooper), Doug (Justin Bartha), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) are flying to Thailand to celebrate Stu's upcoming marriage ceremony to Lauren (Jamie Chung). Much to Alan's dismay, they are joined by Lauren's youthful brother, Teddy (Mason Lee). During Lauren's father's (Nirut Sirijanya) toast, he illustrates his disapproval of Stu by comparing him to rice porridge. At the finish of the evening, Stu hesitantly joins Phil, Doug, Alan and Teddy for just a beer. Staying at a campfire and roasting marshmallows, the group toast to Stu and Lauren's future happiness. The following morning, Phil, Stu and Alan, together with gangster Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) (whom Alan befriended after Las Vegas) and a chain-cigarette smoking capuchin monkey, awaken in a unclean resort room in Bangkok. Stu has a face tattoo, and Alan's head is totally shaven. Nonetheless, they are unable to see Teddy, only detecting his severed finger. Chow commences remembering the activities of the prior evening, but his coronary heart halts after snorting a line of cocaine. Panicked, the trio dispose of Chow's body in an ice equipment. Via an advice from Doug (who quit very early the last evening and continues to be on the hotel), they move to a gaol to obtain Teddy but are administered a wheelchair-bound elderly Buddhist monk, who knows extra about what occurred, but doesn't express anything: he has taken a declare of silence, and rejects additionally an alternate corresponding to writing one thing down. After finding a enterprise card, they sail to a neighborhood smouldering in wrecks. They go into a nearby tattoo parlor, in which they be trained that that they had setup a battle that escalated right into a riot. The group of 3 then return the monk to his Buddhist temple, in which they are inspired by the top monk to meditate. Alan is ready to evoke a strip club that that they had visited. There, they determine that Stu had engaged in sex with a katoey prostitute. Upon exiting, the threesome is attacked by {two} Russian mobsters from whom that they had robbed the monkey, and Phil is shot within the upper arm. After Phil is cared for at a health care clinic, Alan confesses that he had drugged a few of the marshmallows from the previous evening with muscle relaxants and ADHD remedy so as to sedate Teddy but by accident mixed up the plastic bags. After noticing an address and time point for a gathering written on Alan's abdomen, the threesome interact with another hoodlum, Kingsley (Paul Giamatti), who needs Chow's bank-account code and security password by the following morning in exchange for Teddy. They return to the resort to try to discover Chow's security password, only to discover that he's nonetheless still living. They grab the monkey (who stored the pin inside of his jacket) back from the Russian mobsters through a crazy automotive chase, throughout which the monkey is shot and injured. After acquiring the pin and leaving the monkey at a veterinary hospital, the group full the cope with Kingsley. Out of the blue, Interpol agents seem and charge Chow. Kingsley seems to be an secret agent, who talks the threesome that the police force have searched all day for Teddy but were unable to find him. Desperate and out of signs, Phil once again calls Doug's wife Tracy. Stu then has an epiphany and the threesome rushes again to the resort and discover Teddy within the elevator unharmed (albeit nonetheless lacking a finger). Teddy had woken up in the course of the evening to get more ice for his severed finger (after the primary bucket of ice had melted) but turned trapped after the facility went out. The 4 use Chow's speedboat, the keys for which were in Teddy's pocket, to travel again to the wedding reception. Arriving just as Lauren's father is about to cancel the wedding, Stu makes a defiant speech the place he rejects being boring and as a substitute states that he's in truth fairly wild. Impressed, Lauren's father gives the couple his blessing. After the wedding continues on, Alan presents Stu with a particular reward on the put up-reception dance: a musical guest performance by Mike Tyson. Teddy then sees that he had taken many pictures during the evening on his cell phone. As soon as again, the group, together with Tyson, agree to take a look at the pictures together once before erasing the proof of their exploits. The display goes black because the group (in answer to the primary film) exclaim in shock to the photos (which, just like the primary film, play over the final point credit).