An early review, Harold and Kumar 2 opens April 25, 2008.Given that this was my most anticipated movie for this year, I regret to inform you, it doesn't live up to my hype.
We pick up our hapless heroes, a few hours after the first one ended. Within the first scene there's a fart joke, which sets the tone for the rest of the jokes to follow.
Written/directed by Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg (the same team that wrote the first one), everything just seems so run of the mill. All of the gags and performances are so single layered, with no depth.
Kumar just can't wait to get high in Amsterdam, so he decides to sneak a bong on board and light up in flight. The bong gets mistaken for a bomb (get it, they sound the same too!), and they get sent to Guantanamo Bay. The problem is how to make a comedy about Guantanamo? You can't. So Harold & Kumar escape (never mind the details) and go on a journey through the south to Texas, where a friend will be able to exonerate them. Along the way, they hook up with the President, Neil Patrick Harris, whores and a lot of pot. Everything gets thrown in. There's a bit of sending up stereotypes, but it's all rather predictable.
The first H&K had characters that we'd never seen before and were able to identify with their underdog qualities. This new edition has the two friends with an awkward confidence, illustrating their new found ease of getting out of ridiculous situations. Unfortunately, the characters and this movie are now just run of the mill, American-teen movie pap.
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