So, was it better? No, for the ethics.
Enter the Tamil dubbed version. When the character "Stu" (voice dubbed by a Chennai artist) wakes up with a shaved head and a face tattoo, he doesn't just say, "What the hell happened?" He says, "Dei! Eppudi da ithu? Naa sonnen la, intha kudikarathu namma thalaila muzhichidum!" (Dude! How is this? I told you, this drinking will ruin us!) hangover 2 tamil dubbed bad words tamilrockers better
The "bad words" transform the film. They take a formulaic American sequel and turn it into a local legend. While Tamilrockers is now largely dead (shut down or blocked by ISPs), the memory of that specific dub lives on in external hard drives and secret Discord servers. So, was it better