So, I was a big fan of Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. It wasn’t reviewed terribly well, but it was arguably the funniest comedy I’d seen in years. As in, I’ll usually go to a comedy and chuckle a bit, or maybe laugh out loud some…but White Castle was to the point where I couldn’t breathe for half the movie. (No Mom, you wouldn’t find it funny…not your kind of humor… :-P)
Therefore, we went and saw the second iteration, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay this weekend, which picks up right as the previous film lets off. The basic premise is that, at the end of “White Castle,” Harold finally kisses the girl of his dreams, but promptly finds out that she’s off to Amsterdam. So…Harold and Kumar, being the stoners that they are, are all about getting on a plane and heading off…
Well, the crazy old white lady on the plane sees our Indian (read: Al Qaeda) and Korean (read: North Korean) protagonists, gets freaked out, comedy ensues, and the Air Marshalls send the two off to Guantanamo. After a brief stay (as in, like, 2 minutes), they escape and make it to Florida with a boat of Cubans. Anyway, the pair go through all kinds of shenanigans as they make their way to Texas to clear their names…
In all honesty, I’m glad I saw the movie, but it wasn’t as good as the first one. It still had breathless funny moments, but it wasn’t quite half the movie…maybe a quarter, this time. The cameos alone are hilarious, as Ed Helms, Rob Corddry, David Krumholtz, Beverly D’Angelo, Christopher Meloni, Jon Reep (of “Last Comic Standing” fame), George W. Bush (yeah…that George W. Bush…) and, of course Neil Patrick Harris.
This isn’t the kind of movie you see for the acting (which was good, of course), or the special effects (there weren’t any), but it was quite funny and worth the money…especially if you liked the first one.
And yeah…watching a George W. look-a-like smoke weed and speak ill of his parents isn’t funny…I don’t know what is…