If you liked The Hangover, then you will probably want to go and see The Hangover Part II. The Wolf Pack are back. So is Chow the gangster. And so, very briefly, is Mike Tyson, although his infamous facial tattoo plays a more prominent role than the former heavyweight boxing champ.

If you liked The Hangover, then you will probably like The Hangover Part II. You will probably enjoy it, but you will probably come out of the cinema thinking that it was not as good as the original.

The premise is virtually identical, only this time the friends are in Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After a drink on the beach, they wake up in a grotty hotel room in Bangkok and once again have to piece together what happened the night before and work out what has happened to Stu’s future brother-in-law.

They do this with the help of some gun-toting criminals, a chain-smoking denim-wearing drug-dealing monkey, a wheelchair-bound monk who has taken a vow of silence, some strippers and a tattoo artist. There is also of course the requisite mobile phone clips to chuckle away to during the closing credits.

If you’re not so much a fan of The Hangover, then you probably won’t be going to see The Hangover Part II. And all the better for it, because it is puerile, smutty and repetitive, with many jokes – especially about gay sex and chicks with dicks – aimed at the lowest common denominator.

“I can’t believe this is happening again,” says Stu halfway through The Hangover Part II. That just about sums up my sentiments about this movie.

The Hangover Part II is released today at cinemas across Bristol.