Todd Phillips was showered with critical acclaim last summer when he delivered The Hangover, which was one of the biggest and best movies of the 2009.
The movie was a sleeper hit as it took the box office, audiences and critics by storm to be one of them most successful comedy movies of the year.
This week sees Phillips return to the director's chair this week and the wolfpack are back!!
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis all return to the roles of Phil, Stu, Doug and Alan as The Hangover - Part II is one of the most highly anticipated movies of the summer.
The Brooklyn born filmmaker attended New York University Film School but he dropped out in order to concentrate on his first film.
That first movie was a documentary Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, which was about the life of punk rock musician GG Allin.
And he stuck with the documentary as he followed this up with his second movie Frat House, which looked at college fraternities.
Phillip directed and produced the movie and it went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
In 2000 he turned has hand to comedy as he wrote and directed Road Trip, which starred Breckin Mayer, Seann William Scott and Tom Green.
The movie was met with favourable reviews and it went on to gross in excess of $119 million at the global box office.
He went back to his documentary roots with Bittersweet Motel, which centred on band Phish, before returning to comedy with Old School.
The movie brought together a great comic cast of Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn as a trio of thirty somethings who wanted to re-live their college days - and they do so by starting a fraternity.
Since then he has gone on to work on Starsky & Hutch and School For Scoundrels but it is The Hangover that is his biggest success.
2009’s blockbuster summer was a little disappointing after being treated to The Dark Knight and Iron Man the year before so it was to be a comedy that would grab all the headlines.
A Las Vegas-set comedy centred around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him.
It was the sleeper hit of the year as the movie went on to gross in excess of $467 million, not bad for a film that was made on a budget of $35 million.
Phillips returned for the first time since The Hangover at the end of last year as he teamed up with Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr for Due Date.
The film put in a solid performance at the box office but it struggled with the critics - it's really not that great a movie.
But The Hangover - Part II is the movie that we have all been waiting for as the boys are let loose in Thailand.
Right after the bachelor party in Las Vegas, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu's wedding. Stu's plan for a subdued pre-wedding brunch, however, goes seriously awry.
The Hangover - Part II is out now
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