Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay2008
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
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Critic Consensus: It may not equal its predecessor, but Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is still good for some laughs -- and food for thought.
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Cast
as Kumar Patel
as Harold Lee
as Ron Fox
as Dr. Beecher
as Goldstein
as Rosenberg
as Deputy Frye
as Maria
as Vanessa
as Colton
as Neil Patrick Harris
as Raymus
as Raylene
as Cyrus
as George W. Bush
as Sally
as Tits Hemingway
as Tammi
as Trisha
as Sparkle
as Venus
as Agnes
as Travis
as Kenny
as Archie
as Carter
as Raza
as Kim
as Big Bob
as Interpreter
as Dr. Patel
as Mr. Lee
as Mrs. Lee
as Old White Woman
as Dr. Jonavon White
as Groomsman
as Goon
as Goon
as State Trooper
as Carsten
as Vanessa
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Critic Reviews for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
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As the idea is no longer fresh and the plot has basically the same structure, it doesn't quite match the original. But the sequel delivers enough new developments to keep it interesting.
The film is so even-handed and so diligent in its urge to offend that after a while I felt myself go numb.
Amid the dick jokes, drug taking and gratuitous nudity, the film also serves as a salient reminder about what actually ranks as subversive comedy.
While not without its funny moments, this labored sequel ups the nudity and gross-out factor while diminishing the sweetness and evident camaraderie of its appealing leads.
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo 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.
[A]ctually scores more points off the nation's paranoid and repressive post-9/11 mindset than all of Hollywood's hand-wringing war-on-terror dramas put together.
Audience Reviews for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
four stars
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A big step (or two) down overall when compared to its predecessor, but this is still a pretty funny and extreme satirical comedy in which no one is spared. The freshness wasn't all there, but I enjoyed the movie regardless. Here's to hoping that future sequels keep from getting stale, and creativity enters back into the mix. Also, the title needs to be changed. Keeping it the way it is with how the film plays out is asinine. They need to call it Harold & Kumar go to Amsterdam or something. What hurts the movie the most, for me, is that it's a really big retread of the first, but this time they take the shock humor to some extreme and sometimes really offensive levels. Some of it does work, some doesn't, but it is overkill regardless. I still give it a lot of credit however because it does tackle some actual issues, even if it mostly prefers to focus on the dumb humor.
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Quotes
| Kumar: | dude this is weed. |
| Kumar: | Dude this is weed. |
| George W. Bush: | thats alabama kush, thats one of the finest. |
| George W. Bush: | That's alabama kush, thats one of the finest. |
| Kumar: | so you get high then you put other people who smoke weed in jail. |
| Kumar: | So you get high then you put other people who smoke weed in jail. |
| George W. Bush: | duh. |
| George W. Bush: | Duh. |
| Kumar: | thats so hypocritical. |
| Kumar: | That's so hypocritical. |