Four new TV spots for The Hangover 2 have been released, which is awesome for people who want to see the best parts of the movie before it actually comes out. And director Todd Phillips can claim that the trailers and spots aren’t revealing anything great, but he doesn’t have to sit in a theater with 80 drunken college kids yelling out the lines they already know.

So keep on trucking, Hangover 2 promotional and marketing team. Cram this movie that is already guaranteed to be a blockbuster down our throats, because we can’t tell what’s funny without you guys. At this rate we’re going to need Hangover 3 teasers for May.

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"Settle down, everyone, of COURSE I'm here for the gangbang."

You’ve probably noticed that just about any “raunchy” comedy is eventually available on “unrated” DVD. I always understood this as a way for the studios to sell you two of the same thing, but I also believed that it was also a chance for directors to include all the extra swearing and muff shots they’d originally intended but had to cut to get an R-rating from the MPAA.  It turns out the latter belief was just a fairy tale, like the female orgasm. As Phillips told a SXSW crowd this week, according to Movieline (his favorite site), directors usually aren’t involved at all:

Phillips’s beef lies with the widespread practice of selling unrated cuts of films on DVD, a marketing move that yielded an overly expository, seven minutes-longer cut of The Hangover and, he says, violates Director’s Guild rules.

“That’s something I have to take up with the DGA,” Phillips told a near-capacity audience at the Austin Convention Center. “Warner Bros., they’ll make your movie; your movie does well, and they want to create an unrated version, which is entirely against DGA rules because it’s not your cut. And they can’t call it the ‘Director’s Cut’ — they’ll call it ‘Unrated’ or some ridiculous term. Really all it is, is about seven minutes of footage that you cut out of the movie for a reason.”

“That won’t happen on Hangover 2,” he added. “The truth is that the unrated DVD, I probably could have killed, and they explained to me why they wanted to do it and what it meant as a marketing device. The fact that it ended up on HBO… was an incredibly large f*ck-up. That shouldn’t have happened. So that’s not going to happen again.”

I had a similar question about whether The Town “director’s cut” DVD was actually a cut Ben Affleck preferred or just an alternate cut they used to sell more DVDs, since the new version was so expository and lame that it actually made me wonder if my belief that Affleck was a solid director had been based on him just having really smart editors and producers.  Either way, both guys should be thankful they’re not working in porn, where, if you’re lucky, you get paid a grand or two to star in something you think is going to tasteful, and next thing you know your face is on the box for Fat Ugly Jizz Dumpsters 77.

Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, and Todd Phillips carried the first Hangover, even though the script was pretty lame and hacky.  I was going to say that, instead of calling it “overrated”, but then the sequel teaser hits and practically the whole thing is glowing quotes from critics about the first one.  Really, guys?  That’s still the movie where the fat guy gets a BJ from an old lady in an elevator, right?

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That’s right, Bill Clinton will have a cameo playing himself in The Hangover 2.  While I tend to agree with Todd Phillips that comedy relies on the element of surprise, and it kind of takes the fun out of it to constantly spoil them with gossip columns, by now this news is already all over the web, so the only thing I’d be doing by not posting it is hurting myself.  And if I’m just going to hurt myself, what am I paying these hookers for?  Anyway, Clinton is joining Paul Giamatti and Liam Neeson as yet another famous person with a cameo in The Hangover 2.

Jizz on my dress, TMZ:

Bubba was spotted on the set in Thailand yesterday where we’re told extra security was added for his presence.
Our spies say they saw Bill walk on the set and were told by crew members he was filming a cameo. None of the people we spoke to, however, saw Bill actually step in front of the camera.
Although some people associated with the flick have told us Bill just “hung out,” we’ve now confirmed he did indeed shoot a cameo.
In the photo on the right, you can see Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper riding in a rickshaw — Zach is sporting a shaved head like in the pictures we posted earlier this week.
We’re guessing Clinton did some serious work … on the craft service table. [TMZ]

Haha, the craft services table, get it?!?  Ouch, my sides.  Phew, that was a good one, TMZ.  Let’s see… Thailand, blow jobs, Mel Gibson, Hangover 2… yeah, definitely gonna go with a Bill Clinton-is-fat joke here.  If only we could somehow work in a reference to that hot new MTV VJ, Kennedy…

So, to recap, Hollywood Morality: Angrily demanding a blow job from your wife = unacceptable. Actually receiving a blow job from not your wife = totally cool.

Liam Neeson has replaced Mel Gibson in The Hangover 2, after the latter was blackballed by the Hangover cast in the fallout from Pack of N-Words Gate.  To be fair, if he didn’t want to get blackballed, he probably shouldn’t have dressed like that. Neeson will play the role of “deranged tattoo artist” originally slated for Gibson, which makes sense, because Neeson brings a similar level of gravitas, and considering his recent movie choices, he’d probably lick the floor of a peep show if you gave him five bucks and told him you were filming it.

Director Todd Phillips recently spoke about Gibson’s firing to our buddy awkward Josh over at MTV, saying he was surprised by the cast and the public’s “lack of empathy”.  Mel figures it’s probably just something they learned from the wetbacks.

“I was surprised in some way by the reaction, because I think in some way we have, especially in Hollywood, empathy for people who have struggled with alcoholism.”
“We just had a long talk about it, I explained it,” Phillips said. “He certainly understood, you know. He wasn’t happy, but he certainly wasn’t upset, I mean, it just was kind of a bummer because I think he understood the intention of the casting and the role.”
Phillips told MTV that despite the actor change-up, the role has remained completely the same because Gibson was never intended to play a version of himself the way Mike Tyson did in the first “Hangover” film.
“It was very different. [Gibson] was coming in to add a little bit of weight to the situation that unfolds in Bangkok, so we just needed an actor that brings weight. I think Mel and Liam, and there are probably four other guys in that age range that sort of bring that gravitas,” he said.

That interview is after the jump, along with some “spoilery” pictures from The Hangover 2.  In any case, this certainly marks the first time in history an Irishman was hired for being the least racist.

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