'Hangover Part II': The party continues

By Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY

There are celebrations and then there are Hangover celebrations.

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  "It was a very good night": Ken Jeong joined his Hangover Part II co-stars for a big night out doing karaoke in Berlin on Saturday.

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"It was a very good night": Ken Jeong joined his Hangover Part II co-stars for a big night out doing karaoke in Berlin on Saturday.

The cast of the box office hit Hangover Part II finished the last of their European press obligations Saturday in Berlin. Giddy with word of the rising international box office tide for the movie, the crew celebrated in the only way appropriate ? heading to the Green Mango Karaoke bar.

"It was a very good night," says Hangover star Ken Jeong. "We were literally there until the equipment just stopped because we were burning it out."

The Wolf Pack howled until 3 in the morning. They had good reason. In the USA, the movie was in the midst of setting a box office record for a comedy ($85 million for the weekend) before topping $200 million at a record pace worldwide despite a drubbing from movie critics.

"Hangover's legacy was set on the weekend," says box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com. The party likely will continue. "This movie is definitely holding in there and reflecting great word of mouth," he adds. "Despite what the critics say, people want some fun."

So do the stars of the movie. Jeong, a confessed "karaoke fiend," performed REM's Losing My Religion before joining Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms on Radiohead's Creep. But the star act of the night was Justin Bartha and Cooper performing an a cappella freestyle rap. "That was my favorite part, Bradley freestyle-rapping and Justin laying down the fat beats," says Jeong.

The next beat for the franchise is not if, but when, the Hangover crew will reunite. Director Todd Phillips discussed Hangover Part III at a Los Angeles news conference last month. "The third would be very much a finale and an ending," he said.

Phillips said the next film would not follow the same template. As for the location, the director is mulling options.

"I'm very open, like the Olympic committee, to being pitched and presented cities, flown around with wine and women and bribes. Then I will make my decision."

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