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afq2846

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I am not much of a fan of the first movie so when I heard they where making a sequel I had no idea why. Lets be honest here from start to finish this is a bad movie. The whole idea of harold and kumar going to guantanamo bay and then escape in an...
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I am not much of a fan of the first movie so when I heard they where making a sequel I had no idea why. Lets be honest here from start to finish this is a bad movie. The whole idea of harold and kumar going to guantanamo bay and then escape in an hour. Then they go on a road trip all over the country. They meet a bunch of people and suppoedly there is comedy somewhere here. I think maybe you would have to actually be high to think that parts of this movie are funny. Again we go with the whole hit or miss style of comedy. They put a lot of things out there and they hope that some of them stick. There are more misses here then hits because this is a really poorly done movie. Skip this movie at all costs unless you are high or just really really bored.

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Posted aug 9, 2008 3:15 am pt

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For a movie making fun of Eurotrip, it should have at least tried to be better. It has some funny moments, but it's not as good as the first one. Neil Patrick Harris saved this movie, making it a rental at best.

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Posted jul 30, 2008 8:54 am pt

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i just want to say that it was a painful movie to watch.

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Posted jul 17, 2008 8:02 am pt

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Harold and Kumar was so hysterical that I can't even review it because the dialouge was inaudible. There were parts that were actually so funny that you could not here what the characters were saying. I really loved this film. The second Harold...
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Harold and Kumar was so hysterical that I can't even review it because the dialouge was inaudible. There were parts that were actually so funny that you could not here what the characters were saying. I really loved this film. The second Harold and Kumarcpicks up maybe 30 minutes from where the first one ended. Our unlikely heros, played by John Cho and Kal Penn head off to Amsterdam to chase Harold's (Cho) dream girl. Kumar (Penn) wants to smoke unlimited amounts of pot. When they're on the plane, Kumar decides he can't wait until they reach their destination of the "Weed Capital of the World", so he lights up a bong, misinterpreted as bomb, on the plane. Theya are deatined and questioned by Rob Corrdry, who is hilarious in this movie. the two end up in Guantanamo bay instead of Amsterdam. About 2 minutes later they escape and embark on an adventure. I COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING! Non-stop laughter! All the performances are considerably good, especially from Rob Corddry who's never really done any work to show his tallent as a comedian. And Neil Patrick harris was also unforgettable playing himself. I don't want to over sell this or repeat myself but THIS MOVIE IS HYSTERICAL!!!!

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Posted jul 14, 2008 8:54 am pt

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This is one of the best comedy movies I have ever seen!This movie is not for everyone. There is nudity as well as drug and bodily function humor; however, it is definitely funny. Unlike most drug-themed movies, Harold and Kumar doesn't show the...
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This is one of the best comedy movies I have ever seen!This movie is not for everyone. There is nudity as well as drug and bodily function humor; however, it is definitely funny. Unlike most drug-themed movies, Harold and Kumar doesn't show the boys as being a couple of baked idiots, but as an intelligent sensitive individual paired with a baked idiot. Much like Bruce Willis' Blind Date, it only takes one person with absolutely no impulse control to make your life hell. As they said in Star Wars, however, there is another.

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Posted jul 6, 2008 12:27 am pt

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While not as great as the first it still gave me what i wanted which was some good laughs.I wont get into detail about this one but it feels alot like the first one where harold and kumar try to accomplish their goal but then on the way crazy $hi+...
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While not as great as the first it still gave me what i wanted which was some good laughs.I wont get into detail about this one but it feels alot like the first one where harold and kumar try to accomplish their goal but then on the way crazy $hi+ happens.If you liked the first one then i cant see how you cant like this one since it delivers more of the same even if nothing really new.

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Posted jun 17, 2008 10:34 am pt

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No, it's not a good movie. And no, it's also not funny. Everything that was good about the first one they brought back to this one and crapped all over it. It relies on toilet jokes, sex jokes, racist jokes, and they are not funny. If you are a...
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No, it's not a good movie. And no, it's also not funny. Everything that was good about the first one they brought back to this one and crapped all over it. It relies on toilet jokes, sex jokes, racist jokes, and they are not funny. If you are a fan of epic movie, superhero movie, date movie, and all the above, then you will just love this one. But if you hit puberty, and demand an actual movie out of your 10+, then you know what not to do.

It's not even funny when you're high.
Oh, and if you didn't catch it from before, then here it is: don't watch this movie.

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Posted may 9, 2008 9:52 am pt

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Harold and Kumar was so hysterical that I can't even review it because the dialouge was inaudible. There were parts that were actually so funny that you could not here what the characters were saying. I really loved this film. The second Harold...
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Harold and Kumar was so hysterical that I can't even review it because the dialouge was inaudible. There were parts that were actually so funny that you could not here what the characters were saying. I really loved this film. The second Harold and Kumarcpicks up maybe 30 minutes from where the first one ended. Our unlikely heros, played by John Cho and Kal Penn head off to Amsterdam to chase Harold's (Cho) dream girl. Kumar (Penn) wants to smoke unlimited amounts of pot. When they're on the plane, Kumar decides he can't wait until they reach their destination of the "Weed Capital of the World", so he lights up a bong, misinterpreted as bomb, on the plane. Theya are deatined and questioned by Rob Corrdry, who is hilarious in this movie. the two end up in Guantanamo bay instead of Amsterdam. About 2 minutes later they escape and embark on an adventure. I COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING! Non-stop laughter! All the performances are considerably good, especially from Rob Corddry who's never really done any work to show his tallent as a comedian. And Neil Patrick harris was also unforgettable playing himself. I don't want to over sell this or repeat myself but THIS MOVIE IS HYSTERICAL!!!!

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Posted may 4, 2008 7:33 am pt

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First film was way more funny

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Posted apr 26, 2008 3:19 pm pt

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this flim is a riot i laughed so hard than the first one this flim was worth it

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Posted apr 26, 2008 1:59 pm pt

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  78
  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.

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• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  75
  The big payoff, of course, is Neil Patrick Harris reprising his role as "Neil Patrick Harris."

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  It's not exactly high art, but it's certainly high.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  75
  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.

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• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  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.

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

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• [+] The New Yorker
  
  70
  They are Abbott & Costello with dirty mouths--indomitable, ungovernable, and possibly immortal.

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• [+] Film Threat
  
  70
  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.

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• [+] Salon.com
  
  70
  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.

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• [+] Time
  
  70
  Harold and Kumar are pothead patriots in the first feel-good torture film.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  67
  Harold and Kumar, fortunately, never lose their verbally relentless way of delivering raunch as pure common sense.

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• [+] TV Guide
  
  63
  If only the wit weren't overwhelmed by lame jokes about body parts, functions and fluids.

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• [+] USA Today
  
  63
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• [+] ReelViews
  
  63
  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.

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• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  No political tract, but it can be surprisingly bold.

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