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1. #HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY MOVIE#
2. #HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY SERIES#

#HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY SERIES#

For it does commit the other sin of the sequel: it needlessly raises the stakes by substantially broadening its scope, and in so doing loses much of the humanity from the original White Castle was an exemplar of one of the great American narrative models: the Long Night of the Soul, in which Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) undergo an increasingly absurd series of ordeals between sundown and sunup on the way to discovering that they are not the men they thought they were. In the same breath, it's impossible to claim that this film is as good as the first. The gross-out humor is kicked up a bit and the stoner humor is kicked down, and the gags, though not so fresh as a summer's day in the high sierra, are hardly retreads of the first film.

#HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY MOVIE#

It's mildly frustrating that the film rolls back some of the character development the titular duo under went during the previous movie - it sets them, let's say, two-thirds through that movie, not all the way at the beginning - but it's hard to imagine a plot working with the characters in exactly the place that we last saw them.

Oh, there's still a Neil Patrick Harris cameo as an insatiable drug-using (straight) horndog named Neil Patrick Harris, and a scene with a crazy bumpkin and his improbably gorgeous wife, but that's mostly it, aside from some self-referential one-liners. (It's not even something that just happens to comedies what is Spider-Man 3 but a louder and goofier take on the same content as Spider-Man 2?)įor a film that seemed tailor-made to do just that, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is rather amazingly free of needless retreads from its predecessor, the unexpectedly well-received commercially and critically Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Everyone who has seen the increasingly desperate films in the Austin Powers trilogy knows this: the likeliest path for a comedy sequel to take is to recreate the gags from the original movie that it's perhaps better to call it a remake rather than a continuation, and everything is done much louder and goofier the second time around. The traps awaiting the sequel to an unexpectedly successful comedy are easy to pinpoint, because virtually every such film stumbles into them.