New Line Cinema, Mandate Pictures and Kingsgate Films present an R rated, 102 minute adventure comedy directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg and starring John Cho (Harold Lee), Kal Penn (Kumar Patel), Rob Corddry (Ron Fox), Jack Conley (Deputy Frye), Roger Bart (Dr. Beecher), Neil Patrick Harris (Neil Patrick Harris), Danneel Harris (Vanessa), Eric Winter (Colton), Paula Garces (Maria) with Jon Reep (Raymus), Missi Pyle (Raylene), Mark Munoz (Cyrus), James Adomian (George W. Bush), Beverly D'Angelo (Sally) and Echo Valley (Tits Hemmingway).
Harold and Kumar set off on an adventure, traveling to Amsterdam to get away from all the stress in their lives. On the way they bump into Kumar's ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, in the airport who announces she is about to get married to future politician, Colton. After only two years separated, Kumar has trouble understanding how she could possibly be getting married to such a stuffed shirt. As an American, Kumar decides to exercise is right to freedom of speech when asked to step aside while going through airport security which makes for a so familiar moment to many of us in America these days. From this point on, everything in Harold and Kumar's life decides to take a nose dive.
While on the plane not only do terrorists profiling jokes take a jump into first class but so does the attack on nine eleven. All this leads them into trouble when Kumar decides to smoke some marijuana he snuck on the plane, using a made at home bomb, I mean bong. After some dramatic occurrences during flight, both men end up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and offered a cock meat sandwich by Big Bob. Yes, this scene is quite crude and graphic to say the least but of course fitting to the rest of the story!
After escaping and floating their way to Miami they seek out a friend to help them make their way to Texas in search of some potential help from Colton, Vanessa's fiancé. But question is can you truly trust a politician, let alone one about to marry your ex? While on the run now from the United States government lead by a control freak, Fox, they arrive at their friends house stumbling upon a bottomless party. Ok, let your imagination run wild and you may be close to why this film is rated "R"! Let's just say a lot of T & A along with D, if you get my draft, I mean drift!
Pimped out in a fine and flashy yellow car, Kumar as navigator and Harold at the wheel, they leave Florida and end up in Birmingham. After getting a group of black basketball players all wet, running from a crazy deer hunter, hysterically played by Jon Reep, who happened to win "Last Comic Standing", don't look for Bambi to have a big part, eventually ending up at a KKK rally supported by a hooded yellow labador, these 2 guys are always in the wrong place at the wrong time. But thanks to the heroic actions of a drugged out horny Neil Patrick Harris the boys catch a lift and possibly some other things while visiting his friend Sally on the way to Texas. Rest in Peace Neil in the good old Fox Hole. Lesson learned to never brand a whore named Hemmingway, who would have been better known as Hindenburg. You'll understand after seeing the movie!
This film will keep you entertained from beginning to end even though it is targeted at a younger audience. The writers truly believe in being equally offensive to every race, religion, handicap and culture possible. Let alone shining a sense of humor on an otherwise dull and idiotic politician in the White House, currently high on life out at his ranch when the boys happen to drop in on him. Finally though Bush saves the day and Kumar once again finds love thanks to the square root of three. As for Harold, Amsterdam finally came true and his search for his one true love, Maria, was over. An ending filled with sex, drugs and a great score to a fun and worthy movie to check out for some good old slapstick humor poked at life.
Superbly directed and filled with a vast ocean of one liners, colorful characters and multiple story lines that all come to a climatic final moment this film truly stands alone not as a need to see previous adventure but one that comes with a beginning, middle and end in itself. Cho and Penn truly play out like the great actors of past duo comedies, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis, filled with skilled acting that points out the meaning of true friendship in the face of doom. Corddry and Bart were an added bonus, hot in pursuit of the possible terrorists, all along arguing the points of guilty or innocent. Even though the girls, Harris and Garces, weren't major roles they surely were easy on the eyes and an asset to this hysterical plot weaved throughout this funny adventure. Overall, well executed by all the main characters and supported by the additional actors this film should offend several but entertain much more. Sit back, snort some Zoloft and get ready for one heck of a bumpy ride sure to make you laugh with tears.
Reporting for Talkin' Pets, I'm Jon Patch.