Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay Review
Apr 26th, 2008 by gtull1
I just had to get this review of the Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (aka Harold and Kumar 2) movie out before I went to sleep. If you saw the first movie, and enjoyed watching the two idiots searching for White Castle burgers all night, you will love the sequel! It is absolutely hilarious!! I am so glad that we went to the movie theaters tonight.
Early reviews of Harold and Kumar 2 are mixed. One movie critic wrote, “The great thing about Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle is that there were no expectations. The news of its secret hilarity spread quietly through whispers and surprised admissions — You know what I saw last night OnDemand that was oddly incredible? It was a time when a Neil Patrick Harris cameo was delightfully random since no one had seen much of him since Doogie Howser and the simple fact of two guys on a quest for greasy sliders was plot enough. Unfortunately, H & K 2 doesn’t have that luxury. The expectations are high (ha, get it?), and sadly, the movie doesn’t live up them. Or maybe I’m just getting old.”
I’ll agree that he’s getting old of he didn’t like it!
Another critical review of the Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay stated, “In Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, a fitfully funny if somewhat less excellent sequel, Kumar tries to light up a homemade bong in an airplane lavatory — but the device gets mistaken for a bomb, which results in the two getting tossed into a grimy cell in Guantanamo. They escape quickly enough (do you get the feeling this movie is a bit less plausible than the first?), and once they’re on the road, trying to outrun the authorities, it’s not Harold and Kumar who keep getting misjudged by their appearance. It’s everyone else — the redneck hunter who lives in a shack that’s really a sleek yuppie lair; the scary-looking black man who is actually a mild orthodontist, and whom the chief government terrorist hunter tries to make talk by ”tempting” him with a can of grape soda; our heroes’ parents, grilled by the authorities as if they had just stepped through the gates of Ellis Island. Written and directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who wrote the screenplay for the first film, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay milks the absurdity of prejudice in so many different ways that it threatens, at moments, to wilt into a didactic liberal fable. It’s a mesh of the funny and the draggy, though the comedy is goosed along by little volts of shock and edge: a ”bottomless” party at which people, quite graphically, wear tops and nothing else; the appearance of an even more riotously-self-loathing-than-before Neil Patrick Harris; an encounter with a daddy-fearin’, smokin’ Dubya who seems, in his total aspect, at least faintly, halfway…plausible. Harold and Kumar, fortunately, never lose their verbally relentless way of delivering raunch as pure common sense. Kal Penn, who knows just how to bounce his quick, affectless delivery off his mischievous features, never reduces Kumar to shtick — he plays him as a fully thought-out character — and John Cho gives Harold’s constant exasperation vigor and snap. At the same time, the movie reveals both of them to be not-so-secret romantics: When Kumar recites a love poem, which turns out to be a science nerd’s metaphorical plaint about the loneliness of the square root of 3, it’s a real Hugh Grant moment. From the look of things, it won’t be long before these two have to escape from adulthood.”
OK That’s a pretty good review.
Here is my review: GO SEE HAROLD & KUMAR 2!!!!!!! Awesome movie folks.