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Fresh:15
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6/10
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Kal Penn, John Cho, Rob Corddry, Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
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.
Top CriticA fitfully funny if somewhat less excellent sequel.
Top CriticAs much as I enjoyed the pot-fueled laughs and the sheer energetic lunacy of the original, I was really let down by this uninspired sequel.
Top CriticThe jokes all revolve around weed, stereotypes, and Neil Patrick Harris; the stereotype stuff is by far the funniest.
Top CriticA guilty pleasure that retains the anarchic charms of the original.
Top CriticThis is one of those rare pictures that can gross you out and make you think at one and the same time.
Top CriticHarold and Kumar are pothead patriots in the first feel-good torture film.
Top CriticThe film is carried by its charismatic stars, John Cho as Harold and Kal Penn as Kumar. Kumar plays Laurel to Harold's Hardy, continually getting the pair into messes. Cho is a marvel at displaying exasperation, his face contorting into a frown.
Top CriticOffers a mix of nasty toilet jokes and sex gags, but the gratuitous nudity (male and female) and crazy cannabis-ness are there to serve a greater good: to mock social and political hypocrisy, a culture steeped in prejudice and pretense.
Top CriticThe whole film feels easily distracted and apt to laugh at anything. But that's okay. So is its target audience.
Top Critic[The movie's] idiocy serves the cause of good sense and intelligence. And no, I'm not smoking anything.
Top CriticI didn't laugh anywhere near as much at this far less fresh sequel - which is broader, more vulgar, more scattershot, more overtly political and a lot less funny than it sounds on paper.
Top CriticPenn and Cho's stoner slapstick will doubtless please their obsessive fans.
Top CriticWhile Penn and Cho remain casually cool (they're hipper than the fools who spout bigoted clichés), the movie forgets to stay true to their characters or to itself.
Top CriticWith its intoxicating blend of frat boy humor and sociological satire, Escape From Guantanamo Bay is the comedy of the year so far.
Top CriticHarold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is no political tract, but it can be surprisingly bold.
Top CriticThe film is far from an intelligent commentary on America's race relations...but at a time when race is at the forefront of the American discussion, it presents the topic in a way at which we can laugh.
Top CriticHarold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay embraces America's capacity for decency and kindness. The possibility that we could actually be that great country isn't just a pipe dream. Only sometimes you need a pipe to truly believe in it.
Top CriticIt's sporadically enjoyable in a silly, mindless way and it's hard not to laugh at least a few time while awash in all the bad taste.
Top CriticYou find yourself smiling at some of the bits, wincing through many, many others, and ultimately wondering if the pacing would've improved had either H or K developed a terrible cocaine habit.
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