| ZenZa | 09-14-2011 10:49 PM |
Me and my friends Stu, Doug, and Alan travelled to Thailand to celebrate Stu's wedding to his fiancée, Lauren. Much to Alan's dismay, we were joined by Lauren's younger brother, Teddy, a prodigy and pre-medical student at Stanford University. At the wedding reception, Lauren's father shows his disapproval of Stu by comparing him to rice porridge in his toast. At the end of the night, Stu hesitantly joins me, Doug, Alan and Teddy for a beer. Sitting at a campfire and roasting marshmallows, we toast to Stu and Lauren's future happiness.
The following morning, we awaken in a dirty hotel room in Bangkok, along with a gangster named Leslie Chow (whom Alan befriended after Las Vegas) and a chainsmoking capuchin monkey. Stu has a face tattoo, and Alan's head is completely shaven. However, we cannot find Teddy, only discovering his severed finger. Chow begins recalling the events of the prior night, but his heart stops after snorting a line of cocaine. Panicked, we disposed of Chow's body in an ice machine.
Through Doug (who left early the preceding night and is still at the resort where the wedding is to be held), we find out that Teddy is waiting in jail. Upon arriving at the prison, we were given a handicapped elderly Buddhist monk, who has taken a vow of silence. Together we travelled to a bar after finding a business card only to see the entire neighborhood smouldering in ruins. We entered a nearby tattoo parlor, where we were told that we had started a fight in the club that escalated into a riot. We then return the monk to his Buddhist temple, where we were encouraged by the head monk to meditate to help remember past events. Alan was able to recall a strip club that they had gone to. There, we learnt that Stu had engaged in sex with a katoey prostitute at the bar (with Stu being on the receiving end). Upon exiting, we were attacked by two Russian mobsters from whom we had apparently stolen the monkey, and I was shot in the arm.
After I was treated at a clinic, Alan confesses that he had drugged some of the marshmallows from the previous night with muscle relaxants and ADHD medication in order to sedate Teddy but accidentally mixed up the bags. Stu attacks Alan leading them to notice an address and time point for a meeting written on Alan's stomach. We arrive at a luxurious hotel to find another gangster, Kingsley (Paul Giamatti), who demands Chow's bank account code and password by the next morning in exchange for Teddy. We returned to the hotel to try to find Chow's password, only to discover that he was still alive. After Chow explains that he had hidden the code in the monkey's jacket, we steal the monkey back from the Russian mobsters through a violent car chase, during which the monkey is shot and injured. After taking the code and leaving the monkey at a veterinary clinic, we return to Kingsley's hotel to complete the deal. Suddenly, Interpol agents appear and arrest Chow. Kingsley turns out to be an undercover agent, who tells us that the police have searched all day for Teddy but were unable to find him.
Desperate and out of clues, I once again calls Doug's wife Tracy to inform her of our dilemma. Stu then has an epiphany and realizes that Teddy must have woken up in the middle of the night to get more ice for his severed finger (after the first bucket of ice had melted) but became trapped after the power went out while he was ascending. We rushed back to the hotel and find Teddy in the elevator unharmed (albeit still missing a finger). Together, we used Chow's speedboat, the keys for which were in Teddy's pocket, to travel back to the wedding reception. Arriving just as Lauren's father is about to cancel the wedding, Stu makes a defiant speech where he rejects being boring and instead states that he is in fact quite wild. Impressed by Stu's sudden display of authority and confidence, Lauren's father finally accepts him and gives the couple his blessing. After the wedding continues on, Alan presents Stu with a special gift at the post-reception dance: a musical guest performance by Mike Tyson. Later at night as me, Stu, Alan, Doug, and Tyson reminisce about all of their crazy escapades, Teddy discovers that he had taken many pictures during the night on his mobile phone. Once again, we agree to look at the pictures together once before erasing the evidence of our exploits. | 