The Hangover Part Two broke box office records -- raking in $137.4 million over Memorial Day weekend, the best opening ever for a comedy in the U.S., and grossing more than any other R-rated film in its first five days.

The movie's opening also collected $59 million from 40 countries, bringing the flick's earnings to $200 million worldwide in five days. The Hangover sequel cost $80 million to make.

"It’s… just an epic adventure," actor Ed Helms says in an interview. "Just to live in Bangkok for eight, nine weeks is an adventure on its own. You add to that by making a huge Hollywood movie and then it becomes just this ludicrous assault on your senses. It’s fun, exciting, intense, overwhelming and scary, all at once.

Apparently the audience agrees.