Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo 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.
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
This time they're running from the joint.
2008 · 1h 41m · R
Adventure, Comedy
Directed by
Jon Hurwitz
,
Hayden Schlossberg
Overview
Having satisfied their urge for White Castle, Harold and Kumar jump on a plane to catch up with Harold's love interest, who's headed for the Netherlands. But the pair must change their plans when Kumar is accused of being a terrorist. Rob Corddry also stars in this wild comedy sequel that follows the hapless stoners' misadventures as they try to avoid being captured by the Department of Homeland Security.
Director and cast
- Jon Hurwitz Director
- Hayden Schlossberg Director
- John Cho as Harold Lee
- Kal Penn as Kumar Patel
- Neil Patrick Harris as Neil Patrick Harris
- Rob Corddry as Ron Fox
- Jack Conley as Deputy Frye
- Roger Bart as Dr. Jack Beecher
- David Krumholtz as Goldstein
- Eric Winter as Colton Graham
- Eddie Kaye Thomas as Rosenberg
- Christopher Meloni as Grand Wizard
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A fitfully funny if somewhat less excellent sequel.
As 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.
The jokes all revolve around weed, stereotypes, and Neil Patrick Harris; the stereotype stuff is by far the funniest.
A guilty pleasure that retains the anarchic charms of the original.
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