A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 38
Still raunchy, still irreverent, and still hit-and-miss, this Harold & Kumar outing also has a Christmas miracle: The audience gets to see the sweeter side of the duo.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 9
Still raunchy, still irreverent, and still hit-and-miss, this Harold & Kumar outing also has a Christmas miracle: The audience gets to see the sweeter side of the duo.
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Movie Info
Following years of growing apart, Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrives at Kumar's door on Christmas Eve, his attempt to redirect it to Harold's house ends with the "high grade" contents-and Harold's father-in-law's prize Christmas tree-going up in smoke. With his in-laws out of the house for the day, Harold decides to cover his tracks, rather
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Cast
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John Cho
Harold -
Kal Penn
Kumar -
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris -
Patton Oswalt
Mall Santa -
Danny Trejo
Mr. Perez -
David Burtka
David Burtka -
Tom Lennon
Todd -
Richard Riehle
Santa Claus -
Amir Blumenfeld
Adrian -
Paula Garcés
Maria -
Danneel Harris
Vanessa, Vanessa Fannin... -
Bobby Lee
Kenneth Park -
RZA
Lamar -
Elias Koteas
Sergei Katsov -
Eddie Kaye Thomas
Rosenberg -
David Krumholtz
Goldstein -
Melissa Ordway
Gracie -
Davone McDonald
Latrell -
Shirley Benyas
Nana Perez -
Esteban Cruz
Pepe Perez -
Marvin Cruz
Timo Perez -
Jordan Hinson
Mary -
Bennett Saltzman
Boris -
Yasen Peyankov
Yuri -
John Hoogenakker
Gustav -
Tristan Canning
Noah -
Isabella Gielniak
Caren -
Gabriella Dione
Inez Perez -
Ashley Coss
Ava -
Chloe Coss
Ava -
Hannah Coss
Ava -
Ripper Brown
St. Peter -
Jake M. Johnson
Jesus -
Austin Bickel
Kid in Line -
Inga Wilson
Mom in Line -
Allyson V. Lengers
Waffleboat Kid -
Gabriel Anderson
Waffleboat Kid -
Nelson Tyler
Teen -
Tom Kruszewski
Teen -
Steven A. Clark
Teen -
Hilary Anderson
Hot Teenage Girl -
David Rife
White Castle Employee -
Dave Davies
Church Security Guard -
Dana DeLorenzo
Becca the P.A. -
Brett Gelman
TV Director -
Dan Levy
Reporter -
Evan Mann
Heaven's Bartender -
Gareth Reynolds
Heaven's Bartender -
Cassie Keller
Topless Angel -
Chernise Yvette Taylor
Topless Angel -
Fred Melamed
Uncle Yoav
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For all its pretensions to bad taste, this is surprisingly heartwarming festive fare.
Top CriticThe laughs may not be as strong as they were the first time, and the sense of discovering something fantastically illicit may have faded to mellow, familiar charms that come with the occasional giggle fit, but that's life as a stoner comedy.
It contains the mother of all blunts, which, wouldn't ya know, burns down the Christmas tree that Harold's glowering father-in-law grew from a sapling.
This film will stuff your stocking with profane, perverse, politically incorrect glee.
If there's a complaint to be made, it's that the humor could be less scattershot.
Of course it's offensive and crude. It's also hilarious at times.
While there's no mistaking a Harold & Kumar movie for something that's going win an Oscar, movie fans shouldn't be so quick to dismiss these 21st century incarnations of Cheech and Chong as purely shallow entertainment.
Seriously, someday you guys are going to sober up, catch this on video and wonder what gave you the giggles all those White Castle runs ago.
Falls short of being a holiday classic or an enjoyable 3D experience - meaning, in the end, it's little more than another Harold and Kumar film.
A funny, memorable romp through metafictional sequel land, and a pleasingly Christmasy grossout film to boot.
What started as a beautiful one-off, extended in a pretty decent sequel, has now grown gray at the edges.
Cho and Penn continue to be a likable pair who work well off each other and it's fun to spend time with them, even in the movie's off moments.
Funny in spots, but the story and characters have almost nowhere to go. The direction feels aimless and crafted like a DTV film. In other words, this is an enormously disappointing threequel.
The "let's find a Christmas tree" plot is more in the vein of the original than the outlandish Guantanamo Bay plot was, and the Cho/Penn chemistry remains charming.
A raunchy and religiously-incorrect roller coaster ride for the very-open minded, not to be mistaken for one of those sentimental Christmas yarns you usually see during the holiday season.
For me, this was the best 'Harold & Kumar' film yet. Unfortunately, the film still comes off as too juvenile in its humor to have pleased this adult for very long.
The strain to continually push the envelope of altered-state-friendly absurdity is starting to show.
They keep the tone just right, and the strong, external humor by original writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg sustains it.
The dialogue isn't snappy while the physical comedy is predictable
It's mostly unfunny, stupid and juvenile.
Few will find all of it funny, a fair number will find none of it so, and some will exit in high dudgeon.
Not nearly as subversive as it purports to be, but fittingly witty and wintry nonetheless.
Want to make manchildren laugh? Blow some weed smoke out at them in 3D. Call something 'Avatarded' as a compliment. Get a baby high. Throw in a subplot about a 'hot virgin I met on the Internet' who's horny for a manchild...
Although the humour is patchy, when the laughs hit they hit hard, slyly sending-up holiday season conventions...
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas's slacker posturing belies a rare comedic rigour. It takes brains to be this thick.
It all remains on the light-hearted, harmless and inoffensive side despite bad-taste gags and gory Yuletide violence.
Audience Reviews for A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
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I've never seen the Harold & Kumar installments so maybe that's why this 3rd iteration was an enjoyable one for me. It's everything you could expect from a flick like this: Grotesque, abidingly crude, and vulgarity that's thrown in your face; it's also a lot of fun.
This offensive flick throws a lot comedic punches that, most of the time, misses, but every now and then, it finds a haymaker comes from nowhere and results in laugh out loud laughter. I found myself getting lost in gleeful laughter and hooked into the simple but entertaining narrative. Yeah, the 3D formatting is blatantly thrown in, and yes, it isn't the most fantastically well-thought-out film, but it shamelessly embraces all of it, suspending all kinds of beliefs from all over. It's a raunchy movie that doesn't care how ridiculously over-the-top things can get; it's here to entertain. With such an audacious full-front assault towards it's repulsive personality, obviously I had my gripes with the film, but not for it's offensive behavior; this eccentric execution usually comes coupled with poor technicalities and a real poor respect towards the art of filmmaking. Plus, it's simply not my type of movie.
Nevertheless, "A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas" took me by a wild surprise; my expectation was that equivalent to the more recent Van Wilder flicks. This is a profane caricature that draws its comedic value through its sarcastic outlook on everyday life. It's entertaining
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- Boris: Tthen we kick your rankley asses out of here and take all your muther fucking cash.
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- Harold: Dude, what are you doing?!
- Kumar: Getting 'not-low', what do you think?
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- Kumar: You're not gay, motherfucker!
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- Todd: This is a robbery. Give me all your friendship!
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- Harold: A Korean killed his mother, now his tree!
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- Kumar: Hey, Wafflebot. They think that pancakes are better than waffles.
- Waffleboat Kid: They serve pancakes in hell...
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Oh, believe me, there's some bad taste type of stuff here, it just didn't seem as overkill. I think this could have been a lot better had they come up with a far stronger and fresher script, but at least they got creative with the 3D (even if I did have to see it in 2D. Plus, they did seem to have fun by making it a Christmas movie (the claymation part is pure gold).
Unlike part two which took place within an hour after the first, this one is set several years later. Harold and Kumar have drifted apart and have become estranged. Harold is a married man whose become a responsible straightlaced (read: boring) adult, while Kumar has remained the apathetic juvenile.
Fate brings them together on Christmas Eve, and, after some typical shenanigans, the duo are forced to search for the perfect Christmas tree after Harold's father-in-law's prized one is destroyed. What follows is the typical madcap adventutre with all kinds of over the top nuttiness, vulgarity, and laughs, with some (but not too much this time) subtext thrown in for good measure. There's no Meloni cameo, but Elias Koteas does a good job in his place. Also, Danny Trejo wearing Christmas sweaters and playing against type (mostly) is one of the funniest things ever.
All in all, an entertaining return, but not as awesome as it should have been. Still, it's short, not boring, and an okay way to spend some time.