Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Directed by John Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
New Line Cinemas 2008
By Caesar Martini
Oh, Harold and Kumar, you wacky stoner scoundrels. Your foray to White Castle led you on a cheetah-filled, weed-fueled, hang-gliding rampage of self-discovery. What shenanigans will you get into on your journey to Amsterdam? Oh, thrown into Gitmo. Of course.
At the end of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle our two heroes, stoned and full of sliders, decide on a not-at-all-creepy trip to Amsterdam to visit this girl that Harold kissed on an elevator. However, on the flight there, they are mistaken for terrorists and thrown into Guantanamo Bay, the infamous prison for enemies of the United States. Through a stroke of luck, H & K escape within about fifteen minutes and are on the run as fugitives with an extremely prejudiced and moronic government agent (Rob Corddry) hot on their tails. Oh, and there’s something about Kumar’s ex-girlfriend in there. She smokes pot too!
If you liked the first H&K, I see no real reason you shouldn’t enjoy this one. Just imagine the first one without the cheetah and add a ridiculous amount of full-frontal female nudity (seriously, ridiculous), and you’ve got a pretty good idea of what the sequel is all about. I mean, Jesus. You don’t see that much vag in a strip club [Editor's note: Caesar goes to the wrong strip clubs]. It’s silly, over-the-top, and stupid, but all in a good way.
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay isn’t quite as amusing as the first one, but it’s definitely funny and worthwhile. And yes, Neil Patrick Harris returns and he is AWESOME, even though his part is almost as brief as it was in the first one. I kind of want to be Neil Patrick Harris. Well, the Harold & Kumar version of him. Not the real life version who has to act with Britney Spears.
