Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Advance Screening)
Directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
To be released April 25, 2008
As this movie begun and I questioned why I was in fact sitting in the theatre, I pointed out to the person sitting next to me that it took two people to direct this movie. I was not prepared for how much I was going to hate this film. The first one was mildly entertaining and classic in its own way, but the thing here is that they have no endgame. In the first film, you really want them to get to White Castle and they are headed somewhere. Why a sequel needed to be made is inexplicable. Kumar just keeps messing up and getting the duo into trouble, and Harold (who everyone keeps calling "Roldie" all of a sudden) acts like a complete tool who cannot for a second relax. The humor is immature, which is to be expected, but it is so sad when it is apparent that the jokes could be infinitely funnier if a slightly more intelligent approach had been taken. Rob Corddry as the villain is probably where things started going wrong. Even Neil Patrick Harris, a bad Bush impersonation, and a whole lot of pot cannot help this film in the slightest way. My friend did rejoice when he heard me laugh for the first time about an hour an a half in. This movie is way too long. About an hour an forty-five minutes too long. It will not be out until April, which means you have plently of time to find other movies to see instead of this one.
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I saw this movie at an advance screening too. You've got to be pretty humorless if you didn't like it. Everyone in the audience was going ape shit throughout most of the film. Rob Corddry was absolutely genius.
ReplyDeletei didnt see this movie yet but the trailer makes it look hilarious and the first one was one of the funniest movies ive ever seen. i guess thats just my type of humor.
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