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64
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63
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63
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62
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61
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59
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58
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
New Line Cinema
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MPAA RATING: R for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language and drug use
Starring
John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Roger Bart, Neil Patrick Harris,
Kal Penn,
Rob Corddry,
Roger Bart,
and
Neil Patrick Harris
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay marks the triumphant return of these two hilarious, slacker anti-heroes. Their last adventure found them traveling across country to find a White Castle hamburger in order to satisfy a weed-induced case of "the munchies." This time, the boys get themselves in trouble trying to sneak a bong on board a flight to Amsterdam. Now, being suspected of terrorism, they are forced to run from the law and try to find a way to prove their innocence. What follows is an irreverent and epic journey of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling and a wild trip around the world that is as "un-PC" as it gets. (New Line Cinema)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
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Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jon Hurwitz
Hayden Schlossberg
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jon Hurwitz
Hayden Schlossberg
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: April 25, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
102 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
78
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Anyone can come up with jokes about incestuous rednecks or pubic hair that "looks like Osama bin Laden's beard," but it takes guts to make a comedy in which the Indian-American hero accuses an African-American TSA agent of racial profiling, all so he won't get caught smuggling weed onto a plane.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The big payoff, of course, is Neil Patrick Harris reprising his role as "Neil Patrick Harris."

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's not exactly high art, but it's certainly high.

75
Premiere
Jenni Miller
At the screening I attended, someone walked in wearing a shirt that read "I HEART BONGS," so that gives you a pretty good idea of the target audience. Maybe this time they will rouse themselves from the couch and make it possible for us to follow Harold and Kumar through more adventures.

70
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Precisely because their attitudes are so bluntly hedonistic and apolitical, Harold and Kumar manage to be fairly persuasive when they get around to criticizing the status quo, which the movie has the wit to acknowledge itself as part of.

70
Variety
Joe Leydon
An over-the-top and beyond-PC comedy that sometimes deftly, sometimes slapdashedly infuses party-hearty anarchy with hectoring moral outrage.

70
The New Yorker
David Denby
They are Abbott & Costello with dirty mouths--indomitable, ungovernable, and possibly immortal.

70
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Honestly, the most shocking thing put forth in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay just might be the proposition that George W. Bush is actually a pretty cool guy.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
That rare sequel that builds on the movie that came before it without crushing its attributes to death. "Escape" doesn't feel belabored. Giddy, freewheeling and sweet-natured, it pulls off the effect of seeming spontaneous, a tall task by itself.

70
Time
Richard Corliss
Harold and Kumar are pothead patriots in the first feel-good torture film.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Harold and Kumar, fortunately, never lose their verbally relentless way of delivering raunch as pure common sense.

63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
If only the wit weren't overwhelmed by lame jokes about body parts, functions and fluids.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Mostly, Harold is a guilty pleasure that retains the anarchic charms of the original.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The movie is unpolished, unabashedly un-PC, and takes on as many "sacred cows" as it can uncover in a slightly-too-long 105 minutes.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
No political tract, but it can be surprisingly bold.

60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The jokes all revolve around weed, stereotypes, and Neil Patrick Harris; the stereotype stuff is by far the funniest.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Among the variations of gags from the original are a threesome involving Harold, Kumar and a giant bag of marijuana.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Is a truly political stoner movie even possible? The entire point of getting high is to take some of the sting out of life. The movie goes after easy targets and goes soft on the harder issues.

50
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It exploits post-9/11 anxieties as fodder for goofball gooniness. "Dr. Strangelove" it's not.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Lacks the fresh charm that made their first such an unexpected (if guilty) pleasure.

50
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Mostly dumb, no matter how desperately and even valiantly it aims for "thinky."

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
It can devote itself entirely to bodily functions or, having established its grossness quotient, take the high road toward satire like its 2004 predecessor, "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle." It fails mainly because it does neither.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
You 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.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The movie is sporadically funny in an anarchistic way. But Cho and Penn don't have the needed personality or comic identity to sustain a franchise and their non-drug humor is so crude and scatological that -- to say the least -- it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.

40
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
It's a big fat missed opportunity.

40
Slate
Dana Stevens
It betrays the spirit of the stoner comedy, which has traditionally been subversive--when it wasn't detailing the love affair between two marginally functional young men and their stash of sweet, sweet herb.

30
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A largely mind-numbing experience.


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