Anything the filmmakers might have, could have, should have handled with even the remotest degree of subtlety...they didn't.
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
54 %
Reviews Counted: 117 Fresh: 63 Rotten:54 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
It may not equal its predecessor, but Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is still good for some laughs -- and food for thought.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 25, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $38,087,366
Synopsis: America's favorite pothead pals, Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn), return with an uproariously un-PC sequel that skewers everything from racial prejudice to the president of the United States. HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY picks up shortly after the first film, cult... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Kal Penn, John Cho, Rob Corddry, Neil Patrick Harris, Roger Bart
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Screenwriter: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Producer: Greg Shapiro, Nathan Kahane
Composer: George S. Clinton
Screenwriter: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Producer: Greg Shapiro, Nathan Kahane
Composer: George S. Clinton
Reviews
A prison sex slave rebellion having to do with an organ sandwich, don't ask, and a detour over to Bush's secret sex den, make this ballsy doper duo and their Blue State versus Red State rant hard to resist.
07/18/08
Whereas White Castle had a freshness in its humor, Guantanamo goes crude for the sake of crudeness, to the point of ruining entire scenes.
07/12/08
A drunken bachelor party kind of movie, more of a rental idea than a full-priced theater movie.
06/28/08
Those wishing to defend the honor of the red states will find much to dislike here, starting with the depiction of Southerners as rednecks and Klansmen
06/11/08
Unfortunately, the movie has too many uninspired and shockingly unfunny moments that outweigh the good by at least a few tons.
06/08/08
A surprisingly 'post-9/11' movie, it combines typical stoner humor with a plot about ethnic profiling, torture, and War on Terror paranoia. But, like, in a funny way.
06/03/08
...even Doogie Howser and his imaginary unicorns can't save this film.
05/20/08
Not a high point in stoner comedies, the snickering filmmakers miss their chance to take on racial profiling in the war on terror. Bongs away!
05/20/08
There's plenty about the Bush administration's War on Terror worthy of satire, but Harold & Kumar picks over a carcass that others have chewed over with much sharper teeth.
05/16/08
This movie has everything. Violence, racism, incest, sex, drugs, gross-out humor, insane amounts of nudity and Neil Patrick Harris!
05/12/08
The sequel proves you can still have fun with Harold and Kumar, but you can never go back to White Castle again.
05/12/08
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay, a loosely strung-together collection of sex, race, and stoner jokes, is, by any rational standard, a terrible movie, yet I kept laughing at it, and I came out of the theatre in a good mood.
05/12/08
Top Critic
Overall, it's an enjoyable sequel, although not up to the admittedly high--heh--standards of the first installment.
05/11/08
After two films of their joyous irresponsibility and hedonistic pleasures, I can say with confidence that I wouldn't want to live in a world without them.
05/10/08
The gross-out and gay-panic humor is overdone, but like its predecessor, the movie makes some cogent if clumsy points about racial identity.
05/09/08
If you're really, really high, you might think that H&KEfGB suggests that we are only truly free when we transcend our own racial identities.
05/08/08
A disappointing and bland follow up to a comedy that deserved much better than a typical cash-in...
05/07/08
Falls into that classic sequel trap: do the same thing again, but do it bigger and louder... It's a big, noisy, unfunny rerun.
05/06/08
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