September 21, 2024

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‘Hangover III’: The Reviews Are In!

That's right, Wolf Pack fans — "The Hangover" is back with the third and final installment in the comedy franchise, and boy, does it have a lot to live up to.

"The Hangover III" finds Alan (Zach Galifianakis) at a crossroads in his life: after the death of his father (Jeffrey Tambor), he stops taking his medication, and Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) agree to come together to help him get rehabilitation and treatment at a facility in Arizona. But en route to their destination, a ruthless gangster kidnaps Doug and threatens to kill him unless the other three produce Chow (Ken Jeong), who made off with $21 million in gold bars during the group's first round of misadventures in 2009.

The second installment made a boatload of money — one big enough to get the cast to Thailand and back — but it was critically derided, thanks in no small part to its similarities to the first film. But how much are critics liking "The Hangover Part III" so far? Take a look at a few reviews from around the web:

Maybe It's Not As Good As The Original
"While it may not recapture the exact same giddy thrill as the first film, this film manages to clarify what the overall story of the trilogy is in a way that I found satisfying and quite fitting." — Drew McWeeney, Hitfix

How Is This One Different?
"Director Todd Phillips inexplicably aims at making a standard action movie, complete with car chases and break-ins that compound the sense of ...

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Jennifer Aniston Breaks Bad, Strips Down In ‘We’re The Millers’ Trailer

Jennifer Aniston isn't afraid to shake what her mama gave her. Need proof? Check out the new trailer for her summer comedy,

The film re-teams her with her "Horrible Bosses" co-star Jason Sudeikis, who plays a slightly desperate, low-level drug dealer who recruits his stripper neighbor, Aniston, to play his wife on a road trip to Mexico. He devises the con in order to pick up marijuana for his horrible boss, this time played by Ed Helms.

Why the scam? "Me, crossing the border alone? Huge red flag. Families, they don't' get a second look," Sudeikis pleads, as Aniston grinds up against him at her place of employment. She agrees, and soon she's heading over the border with him, a "dork who lives in my building" (played by Will Poulter) acting as his son and a "little gutter punk" he recruits to play his daughter (played by Emma Roberts).

Along the way, their RV breaks down, they end up befriending a pair of swingers and, of course, things don't go as planned at the drug pick-up. In order to get out of some hot water with some Mexican drug lords, Aniston strips down to her lacy unmentionables.

Perhaps the only moment to upstage Aniston's impressive pole dancing abilities is Poulter's mastery of Left Eye's rap in TLC's "Waterfalls." Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber ("Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story"), the movie opens August 9 and also features Nick Offerman, Thomas Lennon and Kathryn Hahn.

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Is Paris Hilton Having A Moment? From ‘Impressing’ Birdman To ‘Bling Ring’

Don't call it a comeback, but 2013 just might be the year of Paris Hilton's pop culture renaissance, and she's got some major players co-signing the whole thing.

While it may seem like her former BFF, Kim Kardashian, has stolen the spotlight away from the hotel heiress as the most-buzzed-about reality starlet du jour, Hilton has been making strides to reclaim her spot at the top of the socialite heap. Not only has she graced the big screen in Sofia Coppola's latest, but she's also plotting her return to music, signing a headline-making record deal with hip-hop empire Cash Money Records.

She hit Cannes last week to promote her involvement with Coppola's flick, based on her own real-life experience with a group of Hollywood thieves and partially shot at her home. This week, she also scored major buzz by singing with YMCMB, which MTV News confirmed on Wednesday. After releasing her self-titled debut in 2006, Hilton first teased her sophomore project last year. And now it's well on its way, according to the label's co-founder, Birdman.

"She's always supported us, and we've supported her. It was a friendship first," he shared with the L.A. Times of his relationship with the star, whose previously collaborations with the crew includes her 2012 single with Lil Wayne "Last Night" and appearing in Rich Gang's video for just this month. "She played us music, and I was taken aback. I was impressed by her music, and I didn't know she could sing so well."

He added, "Controversy and all ...

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‘Star Wars’ Fans Still Love To Hate Ewoks 30 Years Later

On May 25, 1983, the third installment of George Lucas' "Star Wars" movie saga was released into theaters. Thirty years later, "Episode VI -- Return of the Jedi" remains quite a controversial film among "Star Wars" fans, largely due to the tiny inhabitants of the forest moon of Endor.

The introduction of the Ewoks, the furry creatures who figure prominently in the movie's climactic battle, caused a disturbance in the Force so great that people are still griping about it, and loudly. Heck, Stephen Colbert even ate one on the air.

Since 30 years have passed, and episode VII on the way, MTV News got three experts to weigh in on the debate.

Writer/producer Andrew Zilch, a "Star Wars" fan since childhood, couldn't help but notice the ever-swelling hatred of all things Ewok. "I started to realize inevitably any discussion about 'Return of the Jedi' would always devolve into total Ewok-bashing," Zilch told MTV News. "It would always be like, 'The Ewoks ruined the classic trilogy, blah blah blah...' "

So, Zilch decided to do something about it. "I thought it would be funny to write a song from the perspective of someone who really earnestly defends the Ewoks and feels like they were treated unfairly over the years," Zilch said. With the help of a few co-workers at HBOlab, he created an accompanying video in 2008 to celebrate the Ewoks for the film's 25th anniversary. The clip features "Episode VI" star Billy Dee Williams and has gotten nearly a million YouTube views.

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Did Rapper Tim Dog Fake His Own Death?

On Tuesday (May 21) a judge in Desoto County, Mississippi issued an arrest warrant for rapper Tim Dog ... which is interesting, considering the notorious "F--- Compton" MC supposedly died in February.

However, according to the Desoto County District Attorney's office, a death certificate has never been filed, and no one seems to know where Tim Dog — real name Timothy Blair &#8212 was buried. Which means, in their eyes, he is still very much alive, and may have faked his death to avoid court-mandated payments to a woman he stole $32,000 from in 2011.

"I need proof. I need a death certificate showing that he's dead, because as far as I'm concerned, he's alive," prosecutor Steven Jubera told Memphis news channel 3 WREG. "Nobody said where he died, nobody said where he was buried, which is very odd for an obituary."

Blair plead guilty to grand larceny two years ago and was given five years' probation. A judge also ordered him to repay $19,000 to a Mississippi woman he defrauded in a financial scheme within the probation period, but that woman says the payments stopped when he was reported dead in February. Suspicious, she sent a friend down to Atlanta, where Blair allegedly died, to find a death certificate, but that search came up empty.

After speaking with the victim, WREG hired a private investigator to look into the matter, who couldn't locate a death certificate either, and told the station that, as of April, there was also an active address for Blair in Atlanta.

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Psy Calls Out Fake Psy For Crashing Cannes

Some artists would go ballistic if they found out some joker was impersonating them on the red carpet at a major media event. Not Psy, though.

The genial South Korean rapper had a surprisingly jovial reaction to the fake tweeting, "Seems like there's another ME at Cannes ... say HI to him @scooterbraun lol #PsyinSingapore."

He later uploaded a photo of the phony, who was spotted by manager Scooter Braun, and, well, you could see why some people might have been fooled.

The fake Psy, who wore the rapper's signature round glasses and ill-fitting suit, has been living it up around Cannes for several days as celebrities and journalists hit the town for the annual film festival. According to the Atlantic Wire, the as-yet-unidentified imposter went to parties, posed with celebrities and appeared in a video for French radio station Radio Prestige where he showed the host how to do the "Gangnam Style" dance.

Among those who got duped into posing with the pretender were actress Naomi Harris ("Skyfall"), actor Adrien Brody and Portland Trailblazers player Nicolas Batum. He also reportedly made his way into parties at the Carlton hotel, the VIP Room and Martinez beach, as well as attending a secret bash thrown by millionaire oil baron and fashion designer Goga Ashkenazi at Le Baron, where he grabbed a mike behind the DJ booth at the soiree attended by Karolina Kurkova and Rosario Dawson.

A spokesperson for Psy's management could not be reached for comment on the incident.

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Backstreet Boys Warn Fans: Expect Lots Of ‘Testosterone’ On Summer Tour

What do you get when you take the Backstreet Boys, and then toss in Jesse McCartney and DJ Pauly D for good measure? "A lot of testosterone," according to BSB's Howie Dorough.

The boy band recently dished to MTV News about their upcoming summer tour, and told us that while they certainly aren't newbies when it comes to the road, their experience means they feel ready for anything. In 2011 and 2012, they went on massive tours with New Kids on the Block, and those jaunts were something like a traveling pop wolf pack.

"We just finished a tour with nine of us," A.J. McLean said of the NKTOTBSB run, adding that for the new tour, Pauly D being on the lineup ensures there will be "lots of fist pumping going on."

The In a World Like This Tour celebrates the boy band's 20-year anniversary and kicks off August 2 in Chicago. It will cross North America for five weeks before wrapping up September 8 in San Francisco.

"We're excited [because] we actually worked with Jesse before," Nick Carter said of McCartney, who opened for the guys on their Never Gone Tour in 2005. "We had a great time with him and, obviously, the relationship has stood."

"And Pauly D has a great fanbase. Now it'll be Double Ds, between me and him, on the road," Howie D joked.

Did One Direction Do The Backstreet Boys Justice?

Just days before the tour kicks off on July 30, the band will release their album, In a World Like This. (Their ...

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‘The Hangover Part III’: The Truth Behind The Grossest Scene

Over the course of three movies, the "

In a cameo appearance, Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy has an intimate moment with Zach Galifianakis' Alan in a Las Vegas pawn shop, and from there, things get real.

"I didn't know Melissa, and we had just met kind of met that day," Galifianakis said when MTV News spoke with him in Las Vegas. "Sometimes you get lucky enough to have clicked with another actor or actress, and we just, I don't know, felt like we had known each other for a long time. That helped."

The connection must have at least helped during the scene, which has Alan taking the lollipop from his mouth and seductively placing it into McCarthy's, in order to get the information he needs about the location of Mr. Chow.

Galifianakis' co-star, Bradley Cooper, agreed that McCarthy brought something special to the set.

"There's something about [McCarthy] and John Goodman especially," he said. "They come on set and bring an energy. It's amazing because there's a set structure and a set energy with the three of us, but Melissa would come on, and as an actress, she's just cool, unflappable energy. She set the tone actually. She really is a very powerful performer."

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Teen Choice Awards 2013 Nominations: ‘Twilight’ And Taylor Swift Dominate

"Twilight" may have wrapped up its saga last year, but the enormously popular franchise lives on in the hearts and minds of young moviegoers the world over — evidenced by its seven nominations at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards.

The film and its stars join the likes of Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway and many more who were recognized when the Teen Choice Awards released its list of nominees Wednesday (May 22).

received nominations in two categories — Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Romance — as did its stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Hathaway received nods for her performances in both "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Les Misérables." Bieber also nabbed two nominations, for Choice Male Artist and Choice Male Hottie. Swift grabbed three noms, for Choice Female Artist, Female Country Artist and Choice Smile.

Among the movies most often nominated, "Iron Man 3" followed "Breaking Dawn" with six, including two each for stars Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow, and "Les Misérables," which scored in both the Drama and Romance categories and earned nods for Hugh Jackman, Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfried. Interestingly, Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" follow-up "The Host" earned only one nomination, for star Saoirse Ronan.

In the television categories, "Gossip Girl" was nominated for Choice Drama and its stars Blake Lively and Penn Badgley for Choice Actress and Actor. But a trio of nominations was common among competing dramas: "Pretty Little Liars" and "Switched at Birth" also received three each, while "Revenge" scored four thanks to two Actor nominations, for Joshua Bowman and Nick Wechsler.

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