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Daron Aldridge: As Max said, Bradley Cooper seems be a bit more visible than the other guys and therefore, I think he will get the biggest bump from this one. I liken Cooper to the type of actor that the studios REALLY want to make into a star and this kind of performance will just make them think he's finally arrived. Unfortunately, the word-of-mouth I have heard is that he's the fourth most memorable person from the movie behind Zach, Ed and Mike Tyson. Then again, maybe this proves that Cooper was the reason for Wedding Crashers' success.

Reagen Sulewski: I find Bradley Cooper to be just another one of those blandly handsome leading men, like Josh Lucas or Gerard Butler, of which there seem to be oodles of around. This will get him a couple of years of work but he's honestly the most forgettable thing about it. I don't know if Galifianakis has a lead role in him, but he's definitely about to become hugely famous.

Eric Hughes: Definitely will go with Galifianakis on this one, with Ed Helms coming in second. And to answer Scott's question about what he follows this one up with - Hangover 2, man! It's already in the works.

Pete Kilmer: Bradley Cooper, who had a stellar turn in Wedding Crashers, adds another notch into his movie resume. He works best in an ensemble and I think he realizes that. Ed Helms might just become a "go-to" type of guy for a bunch of movies as the uptight henpecked husband. But Zach just might become the guy that takes some roles that Jack Black is too expensive for.

David Mumpower: As a (or maybe the only?) fan of the short-lived Fox sitcom, Kitchen Confidential, I disagree about Bradley Cooper being bland. If anything, I think his problem to date is that his personality belies what people expect from his looks. His dark sense of humor is hard to translate, which is why I give the producers of The Hangover all the more credit for casting him perfectly here. I agree that Helms will get indefinite work in those Phil Hartman kinds of roles as supporting comedy actor and I also agree that Galifianakis could leverage this the same way that Will Ferrell did with Old School, albeit to a much lesser degree. In the end, Cooper is the one with the leading man good looks, however, and I strongly suspect that unless he prices himself out of it, an announcement is coming any day that he's the new Green Lantern. If that movie is good (a huge if to me), he's a superstar. If not, he runs back to The Hangover 2 and sticks to comedy from now on. Under any circumstance, he's having the career that was expected of his Alias co-hort, Michael Vartan.

Kim Hollis: While I do agree that Galifianakis steals a lot of the show, I also believe that Helms was just really terrific in this role, and his character was different enough from Andy on The Office that you're not just thinking he's a one-trick pony. I can see a lot of casting directors giving him a look for various character-driven roles. However, I still see Cooper as the guy who gets the big bump here. He mostly had the role of straight man in The Hangover, and he handled it very well. Some of his interaction with Galifianakis is just sublime, and I don't think that Zach's over-the-top character would have worked nearly as well without both Helms and Cooper to react to his outrageous antics and comments. Since Cooper is so good-looking, he's the most marketable of a good bunch.

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