Honestly, we do our best to warn you. Don’t be too enthusiastic about comedy carcrash The Hangover: Part II, we said, or there’ll be a threequel – in which Phil, Stu and Alan wake up in the belly of a whale and find out Jonah fucked Stu in his sleep – before you know it. Why doesn’t anyone ever listen to us? Why? DO YOU HEAR ME, WORMS?

Part II co-writer Craig Mazin is reportedly in talks to begin working on a script for the third instalment, which we suspect has been ready to go for some time – production of the sequel was memorably started before the original Hangover film was released after Warner Bros. was emboldened by strong test scores.

Nothing’s official yet, but with The Hangover: Part II inexplicably breaking all sorts of box-office records there’s no real way this isn’t going to happen. Anyone who paid to see that utter drivel and thereby contributed to this sorry state of affairs: watch your back. We’re serious. (No we’re not.)

(Yes we are.)