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I saw this during a sneak preview, so I had no idea what this movie was about. It was lots of fun.

It starts off bad. Really bad. Like they tried to go for "so bad it's good" but then failed at that. If it weren't for the fact that I was sitting in the middle of a row with people on either side I would have just left.

But after half an hour, there's a change of pace, and yet another 'what am I watching' moment, but then it all starts making sense, and it becomes really funny and easy to watch.

From the makers of Disaster Movie and the likes comes a new low.

The story is a failed rip-off from The Hangover where 4 women: the rich neat sister, the weird one, the loose one and the one about to be married head to Las Vegas for a bachelorette party, their booking went all wrong so they just go out to get as drunk as they possibly can. What follows are seemingly random scenes akin to the stories my wannabe hip uncle tells at birthdays.

Still, if everything else was great it could have been saved. Unfortunately this isn't the case. The acting ranges from bad to mediocre. The editing only makes it worse, where sometimes people respond 2 seconds too late to shocking news. And the camera is horrible, they went for the handy-cam way of shooting the movie which makes for crappy quality and constantly gives you the feeling that you're watching some embarrassing home video that didn't quite make it to the funniest home videos show.

If after all of this you still want to see it, watch the trailer instead as anything remotely funny or worthwhile is in the trailer.

A lot of the reviews here are of the first season. Though the first season is not as pitiful as most of these reviews would lead you to believe, it is rather cheesy. Anyways, I am not here to tell you to watch the first two seasons. You might want to watch the first (maybe first two) episodes of season one and the 7th (Dead man walking) and last episode of season two to get you up to speed. Or read the summaries.

After this however, it all changes. To begin with, season three is a mini-series with one overlying story: all the children on Earth stop in their tracks and speak the words "We are coming." What is going on is left to the - now renegade - Torchwood team to figure out. Superior story writing, acting and suspense keep you on the edge of your seat for almost the entire time. Planning on watching only one episode, we suddenly found ourselves staring at the TV at 3 in the morning still in awe after the conclusion of the final episode.

And if you've watched season 3, you'll be pleased to know season 4 is even better, keeping (almost) everything that was good about season 3, and putting a bit more icing on the cake.

As you might have guessed, my rating of 9 is for season 3 and 4.