Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Critic Reviews
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Based upon 9 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Precisely because their attitudes are so bluntly hedonistic and apolitical, Harold and Kumar manage to be fairly persuasive when they get around to criticizing the status quo, which the movie has the wit to acknowledge itself as part of.Read the full review
Mostly, Harold is a guilty pleasure that retains the anarchic charms of the original.Read the full review
It betrays the spirit of the stoner comedy, which has traditionally been subversive--when it wasn't detailing the love affair between two marginally functional young men and their stash of sweet, sweet herb.Read the full review
The movie is unpolished, unabashedly un-PC, and takes on as many "sacred cows" as it can uncover in a slightly-too-long 105 minutes.Read the full review
An over-the-top and beyond-PC comedy that sometimes deftly, sometimes slapdashedly infuses party-hearty anarchy with hectoring moral outrage.Read the full review
Lacks the fresh charm that made their first such an unexpected (if guilty) pleasure.Read the full review
Harold and Kumar, fortunately, never lose their verbally relentless way of delivering raunch as pure common sense.Read the full review
The big payoff, of course, is Neil Patrick Harris reprising his role as "Neil Patrick Harris."Read the full review
Is a truly political stoner movie even possible? The entire point of getting high is to take some of the sting out of life. The movie goes after easy targets and goes soft on the harder issues.Read the full review
