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| Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (Unrated Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Kal Penn, John Cho
Studio: New Line
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Format: Color, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown)
Rating: Unrated
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Running Time: 114
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN40365D
UPC: 794043122934
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ASIN: B0017ANAX6
Theatrical Release Date: April 25, 2008
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 07/29/2008 Rating: Ur
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Beginning precisely where Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle left off, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay takes the film franchise in a more boorish and spuriously topical direction. Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, during which Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a wild-eyed, racist Homeland Security nut (Rob Corddry) to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay, where beefy guards sexually subjugate "enemy combatants." The duo manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected fiance (Eric Winter) of Kumar's old girlfriend, Vanessa (Danneel Harris), can get them out of their mess. During a dangerous and grotesque odyssey to Texas (where Vanessa is marrying her rich and vain boyfriend, much to Kumar's dismay), Harold and Kumar have episodic encounters with the Ku Klux Klan, a one-eyed, inbred monster, and old friend Neil Patrick Harris (as himself), who swallows fistfuls of magic mushrooms and drags the boys to a brothel stop that goes terribly wrong. The desultory comedy strikes a lowbrow tone from its opening scene (Harold takes a shower while Kumar has a diarrhea attack) and doesn't get much more interesting than that. If there's a bodily fluid that doesn't rate a joke in Guantanamo Bay, it doesn't exist. The persistent sight gags about weed (including a smoky visit with President Bush) never reach the kind of giddy pitch that pot humor requires, leaving a lot of the film's comedy just hanging like dead space. The sequel's attempt to say something, albeit in a gross way, about the state of the country during the Bush years is obvious and empty. Really, there isn't a lot of reason for Guantanamo Bay to have been made, except to print money. --Tom Keogh
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 It's a guy thing May 20, 2008
20 out of 45 found this review helpful
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
1.Harold and Kumar board flight for Amsterdam
2.Kumar tries to get mile high with a bong
3.Guantanamo Bay here we come
4.Guantanamo Bay sandwiches are hard to swallow
5.Adios Guantanamo Bay
6.Majority of movie involves predictable jokes and low blows about Homeland Security, Rednecks, the KKK and George W. Bush
7.The evil side of Doogie Howser returns
The script also calls for a unicorn, a cyclops, full frontal nudity and a character named T!ts Hemmingway (played by adult film actress Echo Valley)
Otherwise, the plot is pretty much what you'd expect from an R-rated comedy about allegedly intelligent friends who disagree on almost everything except getting high.
The problem with this sequel is that the jokes that worked in the first movie just didn't seem so funny this time around, making you wish that the writers had come up with some original material. Definitely not a chick flick - this one is for the guys.
Amanda Richards, May 19, 2008
 What a disappointment!! April 27, 2008
16 out of 41 found this review helpful
Being a big fan of the first Harold and Kumar, I had high expectations for this sequel. I had heard some initial negative reviews, but still went to the theater, wanting very badly to like it. Sadly, it was not to be. By the end, I was ashamed to be in the theater--I felt offended, cheated, and even a little nauseated. This film was incredibly lame and had almost none of the charm of the original. Its almost as if the writers went out their way to make it brain dead.
Some specifics:
1. Many of the bits were blatently recycled from the original (like the weird couple living in the woods), but just weren't funny this time around. There was also a much greater reliance on toilet humor than in the first.
2. Almost everyone who was a white male was portrayed as stupid, racist, or both.
3. The Guantanamo Bay scenes were in incredibly bad taste--especially the bit about the "sandwiches" fed to the prisoners. Sorry, but implying that military guards pull that stuff goes way beyond being not funny--it is highly offensive and insulting to those who wear the uniform.
4. Some of the same characters show up again. While this could have been cool, especially the Neil Patrick Harris cameo, it turned out to be pointless and incoherent.
5. And, of course, the obligatory scenes making George Bush look like a drug addled moron. I'm sure the writers had to work really hard to come up with those.
Bottom Line: If you liked the original, stay away--far away--from this awful sequel.
 Wildly uneven...and sometimes wildly funny. May 9, 2008
13 out of 21 found this review helpful
HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE...is a very funny movie, and I laughed a great deal. That's a good thing.
It's also sloppy, careless and goes for too many obvious or cliched jokes. That's a shame.
It's too bad, because what we have in these two guys is a wonderful blend of what's best and worst about young Americans. They are smart. They are multi-ethnic. In general, they are good-hearted and appreciate the chance to live in America. They're also lazy, self-indulgent and far too easily distracted by drugs. This makes their movies ripe for social commentary.
Too often, though, they take the easy way out with cheap jokes and predictable visual puns.
The movie shows us these two goofballs (and if you haven't seen #1...you must see it first...#2 literally picks up the morning after WHITE CASTLE), setting out on a trip to Holland, so that Harold can follow a girl he's hot for and Kumar can enjoy the legal drugs. But when Kumar brings a hi-tech bong on the plane, it's mistaken for a bomb and the two are mistaken for terrorists. This bit is probably the funniest stuff in the film. It's weirdly credible that passengers might take these two unruly and "un-white" Americans for terrorists...not just because they don't "look like us" but because they sneak into restroom together and then appear with a dangerous looking device. Much is also made of the world "bong" sounding a lot like "bomb." As in, "I've got a bong! No, no...I said bong!!"
My wife and I were pretty much laughing our rear ends off at this point. Then Harold and Kumar are incarcerated in Guantanamo, and the movie quickly reaches it's low-point. The American guards are all rapists and idiots. So, at this point, we were wondering if we could continue to sit through these cheap and unfair jokes about the young men and women in our military. Have many of them done disgusting and illegal things? Yes. Have MOST of them? Absolutely not...yet scenes like these propagate the idea that our soldiers are a bunch of oral sex crazed, torturing thugs.
Fortunately, the two boys escape quite soon, and we're able to follow their adventures as they try for vindication. I won't spoil any more of the plot...but suffice it to say that from this point on, the jokes become wildly uneven. Some scenes are quite funny (there's a scene with a deer that had me in stitches) and others are FLAAAATTT! A scene at a wealthy friend's house in Florida springs to mind.
Neil Patrick Harris reprises his role as himself...and he's nearly as funny and surprising as last time...although far cruder. It was almost too much of a good thing.
The movie takes some clever shots at the current political climate...but mostly it follows the same crude path as its predecessor.
The two young leads are quite enjoyable and easy to warm up to. Kal Penn, in particular, has some promise (see THE NAMESAKE)...I hope he can shake off this role. Otherwise, the movie is low-budget and stylistically simple.
As a 44 year old man, I fully recognize that I'm not the target for this film. Yet I enjoyed it enough to laugh a great deal, and to say now that I would recommend it...but only if you've seen and enjoyed #1. If you hated #1...you won't like ESCAPE any better. This movie plays right to its core audience...for better or worse.
Kal Penn and John Cho make a great comedy duo. April 30, 2008
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
This film contains, male and female frontal nudity, foul language, smoking, sexual content, gross humor. Rated "R".
It's been nearly 4 years that we have waited for this sequel to Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004). It was actually filmed in January to March of 2007. It was originally meant to be a straight-to-DVD release, however they decided to release it theatrically, April 25, 2008.
The great comedic chemistry between Kal Penn and John Cho returns in "Harold & Kumar Escape to Guatanamo Bay".
Also returning with Kal Penn and John Cho are Paula Garces as "Maria", David Krumholtz, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Christopher Meloni, Neil Patrick Harris, Errol Sitahal.
The writers of the first film, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have written and directed this second film.
This second movie begins on the same day where the first movie ended. Since Harold (John Cho) has finally spoken and kissed the girl he had been fantasizing about, but was too closed-up to speak to her before, he needs to see her again, but she is on her way to Amsterdam, Netherlands for 10 days. Kumar (Kal Penn) rescheduled his job interview and has booked a flight for both of them to Amsterdam, so that Harold can find Maria (Paula Garces).
When do these guys ever sleep?
At the airport, Kal sees an old girlfriend, Vanessa (Danneel Harris) who is getting married soon.
The flight doesn't go off without a hitch thanks to Kumar and his smoking pipe invention. An old lady passenger gets disturbed and Harold & Kumar are arrested and sent to Guatanamo Bay jail.
As the title of this film suggests, they do escape and this leads them on another mis-hap adventure.
Beverly D'Angelo makes an appearance as "Sally".
To see a surprise scene, you must wait until after the end credits.
Not as funny as the first film. Some scenes are just too unbelievable too be funny. The movie plays like a mushroom dream, but then again so did the Cheech & Chong movies.
I hope Kal Penn and John Cho continue to make many movies together. They are a good comedic team.
Kal Penn is a regular on the "House M.D." tv series. He will star and is executive producer of the film, Under New Management (2009).
John Cho is "Sulu" in the new motion picture, "Star Trek" to be released May 8, 2009. He will appear in the film, "Expats".
***Update: "Harold & Kumar 3" has been picked up by Mandate Pictures.
They are currently asking Kal Penn and John Cho to return.
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg are helming the movie and are screenwriting again for the third time.
Might have a 2010 release date.
Let's not wait too long, guys. Where's my hamburger?
A second serving--rehashed, refried, and redundant July 29, 2008
8 out of 25 found this review helpful
Okay, our favorite Mexican potheads are at it again. This story begins at the exact point the first one left off.
Kumar has somehow gained about 20 pounds, but hey, he did just devour like 30 White Castle burgers. He sprays out the after-effects in disgusting fashion, and the toilet humor just gets more raunchy from there.
The Arabian buds head off to Amsterdam, but the journey is even more beserk than their last adventure. There's jailtime, weed-smoking, naked chicks, hallucinations, Doogie Howser...hmmm, I might have already seen all that before.
Still, while I'm groaning at all the regurgitated scraps that are being re-served, I found myself laughing in several spots. Yeah, I wasn't even smoking anything, go figure. Our stoners from Korea still got that quirky chemistry.
Although this Indian dope duo lost much of their charm and all of their originality, this is still probably one of the best comedies of the year. Dang, now that's actually depressing.
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