Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay

When you think of movie sequels you think damn this better be better than the original and better live up to the hype also. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay does not really do either. It doesn’t surpass the first, but its also not worse than the first. This movie is about the same two bubbling idiots just another way.

Directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who also directed the first installment, bring their crude humor and weed laced comedy back to the big screen. Harold and Kumar are agin played by John Cho and Kal Penn.

The story takes place a bout 5 minutes after Harold (Cho) and Kumar (Penn) get back from White Castle and are about to embark on a trip to Amsterdam to follow Harold’s new girlfriend Maria (Paula Garces). While on the plane to Amsterdam, Kumar gets the wild hair up his ass to try out his new invention the smokeless bong in the bathroom. Kumar doesn’t shut the door and is spotted by an older lady who think he has a bomb. Harold and Kumar are then taken down by air marshals and return to the USA. They are then dubbed terrorists by a dim-witted government official Deputy Frye (Jack Conley). Frye sends them to Guantanamo Bay as terrorists. Harold and Kumar manage to escape prison, just before they were forced to have their daily dose of a cock-meat sandwich, with actual terrorists and sneak back into the US with a bunch of Cuban refugees. Harold and Kumar then begin the journey to Texas where they have a friend they hope will help them clear their names. So let the shenanigans begin.

Just like the first movie the two boys set out to do something and get massively sidetracked in the process. Though the is a lot of one-liners, funny scenes, nudity and lewd humor its basically the same movie done a different way.

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay gets a 2.5 out of 5.
(If you liked the first one you’ll like this one.)

This is a rental from the theatrical version, but I would suggest buying the unrated version instead, might have movie sick humor than the original. This is a laugh out loud movie.