The Stag is a low key Irish comedy about 5 middle class men going on a stag do for Fionnan who is getting married. It really is a glorified hiking weekend as Fionnan was not too keen on having a stag party.

Things turn sour for them when Fionnan's boorish and boisterous brother in law to be gatecrashes them. Known as The Machine, he ends up burning the tents, dives nude into the river, even ends up electrocuting himself while trying to jump over an electric fence.

It leads to some stark truths that Fionnan's best man Davin was once in love with the woman he plans to marry. The five men also lose their inhibitions and their clothes.

Despite the title it is not very raucous although there is some male nudity. It is also not very funny but it does try to show a new, more modern Republic of Ireland which is represented by the depiction of Fionnan's two gay friends.

Another title for this movie that is, which kind of describes what this is about. But some things cannot be put into words. And like with Hangover you do get the one character who is very much out of place. But without that character the movie would've (probably) been boring, so while you might not want to see him at first, you do realize, that he's necessary.

There are some really bad moments in this, but there are also some very funny ones. While you can see that this is going somewhere (no pun intended),it also stops from time to time (especially that one scene which puts this to a full stop - crucial scene, but there had to had been a better way to handle that). Other than that, pretty solid and decent effort. More drama than comedy though (unlike Hangover in case you started to compare those two)

By looking at all the postive reviews involved here, I was really appalled at this movie. Yes the gorgeous Amy Huberman is in this but to be honest, this is one of her worst films she ever got involved in and the wedding dress they had her to wear in the end wasn't very stunning enough..

Story is bleak, not even funny and really cringy. I just dont understand how it got such positive reviews, it just doesn't deserve it!

I would love to give this a 0 since it just wasn't a great watch...