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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
2008
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Positive Reviews
30
Negative reviews
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1.5
Bad deed, good cause: If thats the films moral, then the films ultimate finale completely contradicts that message.
Austin Chronicle
0.0
While not without its funny moments, this labored sequel ups the nudity and gross out factor while diminishing the sweetness and evident camaraderie o ..
Screen Daily
2.0
A sequel to the stoner comedy was inevitable, considering the business the movie wound up doing on home video (where most stoner comedies wind up earn ..
E Film Critic
4.0
Now the movie delves deeply into a more complicated plot about racism and governmental buffoonery.What it loses in innocent intentions though, it make ..
Cinema Blend
2.0
While Penn and Cho remain casually cool (theyre hipper than the fools who spout bigoted clichs), the movie forgets to stay true to their characters or ..
Ny Daily News
3.8
Offers a mix of nasty toilet jokes and sex gags, but the gratuitous nudity (male and female) and crazy cannabis ness are there to serve a greater good ..
Philly
3.1
If only the wit werent overwhelmed by lame jokes about body parts, functions and fluids.
Tv Guide
3.1
In a film that is even more raunchy and raucous than its predecessor, Harold and Kumar are still focused on the pleasures of weed and wild women, but ..
Usa Today
2.5
Harold blames Kumar for getting them into this mess, and it indeed was Kumars fault.
Lariat
2.8
Like most comedy sequels, it is not as funny as its predecessor but, like most comedy sequels, that wont matter too much if you get stoned before you ..
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
The movie is occasionally very funnybut only occasionally, where White Castle was a parade of belly laughs from start to finish.
News Review
2.5
As is so often the case with sequels, this one feels like a retread, albeit on a bigger scale.
Cs Monitor
3.5
Dude%u2014now even a stoner comedy can star minority actors. That may not seem like major cultural progress, but progress it is.
Film Journal
1.3
And the adventure they have is a sporadically funny gross out picaresque.
Boston
2.5
And, it has to be said, Harold and Kumar take the task very seriously.Their desire to offend is all embracing.
Smh
2.5
Plays like desperate repackagings of the first movies more successful set pieces with the accent on desperate and the freshness level down to zero.
Mountain X
2.8
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Emanuellevy
1.0
It isnt worth attempting in this case however.A quantitative difference between the two films might be just as illuminating.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.2
Harold and Kumar, fortunately, never lose their verbally relentless way of delivering raunch as pure common sense.
Ew
1.5
I wanted to love this sequel, I really did, but everything accomplished in the first comedy from racial undertones, to stoner comedy is beaten over ou ..
Cinema Crazed
2.5
The sequel takes a far more serious subjectracial profiling and the war on terrorand manages to render it completely banal.
Slate
3.0
HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY is an acceptable follow up to the first film.
Common Sense Media
3.8
To go this far out, you better be sure the material is funny, and it is much of the time.
Sf Gate
4.0
David Owen (Tim Robbins), the outraged hero of Noise, is a pain in the neck, and, depending on your point of view, either the craziest or the sanest m ..
New Yorker
3.5
That is the message of two new films that have virtually nothing else in common.
Time
2.5
Everything is on a bigger scale, the bawdiness is more rampant, and the story goals and comic targets are of a loftier persuasion.
The Movie Boy
3.8
It may start off with some grossout gags, but once the opening credits have rolled, everythings as funny as the first, from the dual aural/visual joke ..
Reeling Reviews
3.8
It may start off with some grossout gags, but once the opening credits have rolled, everythings as funny as the first, from the dual aural/visual joke ..
Reeling Reviews
3.0
Luckily Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay has enough solid stoner humor and goofy set pieces to make up for its periodic missteps and interm ..
Las Vegas Weekly
3.1
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
2.2
Cho and Penn dont have the needed personality or comic identity to sustain a franchise and their non drug humor is so crude and scatological that to s ..
Seattle Pi
2.5
The Harold & Kumar Series Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (April 21/08) Theres little doubt that Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle fares a whole lot ..
Reel Film
3.1
Its all in good fun, but the best laughs for us adults come when the movie aims a little higher.
Movie Habit
3.1
Article Continued Below This is one of those rare pictures that can gross you out and make you think at one and the same time.Key to its appeal is the ..
The Star
2.5
Its funny in parts and there are some inventive ideas when it comes to the politically incorrect racial and religious slurs.
Urban Cine File
4.0
Which means that its uncomfortable and confronting and may struggle to find an audience, because very good films almost always do at this point in tim ..
Film Ink
3.5
Amid the dick jokes, drug taking and gratuitous nudity, the film also serves as a salient reminder about what actually ranks as subversive comedy.
The Age
2.5
Predecessor Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, made me laugh more than any movie Ive seen so far this century and it became a cult favorite on DVD.U ..
New York Post
3.5
Run of the mill gross out humour combines with a playful critique of American prejudice and insularity.
Abc
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
1.3
This is an excellent case study in a sequels simply increasing the sleaze factor while pay scant attention to virtually every other aspect of the prod ..
News Blaze
1.2
The other unfriendly angle of Guantanamo Bay is the pictures slathering of racial humor.I realize the jokes are meant to be harmless by their obvious ..
Brian Or Ndorf
2.5
The simplicity of it all makes it more attractive (and entertaining), and gives the writers and actors a chance to be inventive.
Waffle Movies
2.5
Looking for love just doesnt seem as satisfying as satisfying the munchies.
Movie Crypt
4.0
Either way, this is easily the funniest movie since Superbad and a more than satisfying sequel.
ComingSoon
3.8
As Harold lament to Kumar at one point, every time the two of us try to get somewhere, its fucking disaster after fucking disaster!
Montreal Film Journal
3.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
1.9
Taking these kinds of jokes to the extreme that a modern R rated picture allows, however, is just not new enough or funny enough.
Scene Stealers
3.2
Writers/Directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg tone down the pot humor in favor of gross out gags and riskier racial jokes.
From The Balcony
3.5
Despite the new hook, the film is somewhat underwritten (Rob Corddrys role, especially), but Penn and Chos stoner slapstick will doubtless please thei ..
Ny Mag
2.5
It just crept in mildly with a few clever twists and running jokes and tickled me.Now it feels like the sequel is trying too hard.
Can Mag
3.5
Fast, cheap, and out of control Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay is just what America needs.
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
1.9
A comedy that isnt as funny as it thinks it is, on a scale of zero to four stars I give Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Crazed Fan Boy
3.0
After successfully seeking out the ultimate slider in the 2004 stoner comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, the cannabis craving twosome returns ..
Rotten Tomatoes
2.0
I say this with much regret:is a weak, often lame and sometimes sloppy sequel.
Tucson Weekly
3.1
Makes sense.Its more fun to sit at home in comfort with your buddies and your munchies (keep it legal, folks!) than a cold, dark theater with pubic ha ..
Sea Coast Online
2.5
Presumably because hes a glib tease who goes light on the details, is intellectually nonthreatening or possibly defensive, cares little for establishe ..
Stop Smiling Online
2.5
In short, Id like to like this film a lot better than I do.So why dont I, in spite of my basic approval of good clean fun for the young folks
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