# Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2007, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460 "2007-12-10T11:32:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/21 "2008-04-28T01:06:41Z")
[QUOTE=CandidGamera] Don’t forget to stay through the credits for the stinger. [/QUOTE] NPH LIVES! BOO-YAH! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/22 "2008-04-28T01:14:08Z")
Ain’t DVD sales a wonderful thing? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/23 "2008-04-28T01:35:57Z")
Sampling of favorite lines: “They’re not obnoxious like New Jersey deer…” “Don’t you make have to come down there and whip your Cyclops ass!” “The fucker branded me!” “Black? If you were any whiter you’d be Matthew Perry!” ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/24 "2008-04-28T11:45:00Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] Ain’t DVD sales a wonderful thing? [/QUOTE] Now that I’m a bit more rural than before (i.e., no subway, cabs are a PITA), there’s no way I’ll be catching this before the DVD release. I’m too…erm… responsible. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/25 "2008-04-28T16:13:32Z")
Saw it this weekend and enjoyed it a lot. Needed more NPH and Big Bob, but great over all. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/26 "2008-04-28T16:24:21Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] God rest the soul of Neil Patrick Harris though. 🙂 [/QUOTE] SOMEone didn’t stay through the credits. I thought it was fairly good. I enjoyed the last third the most. Some of the gratuitousness grated on me though. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/27 "2008-04-28T17:12:57Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] SOMEone didn’t stay through the credits. I thought it was fairly good. I enjoyed the last third the most. Some of the gratuitousness grated on me though. [/QUOTE] Yes indeed, this particular someone made a beeline to the men’s room as soon as the credits started. Let’s just say it was better for all concerned that way. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/28 "2008-04-28T17:54:07Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] SOMEone didn’t stay through the credits. I thought it was fairly good. I enjoyed the last third the most. Some of the gratuitousness grated on me though. [/QUOTE] I was fine until the “Fifth Amendment” scene. (I won’t spoiler as if you haven’t seen the movie you’ll have no idea what I’m talking about and if you have there’s only one thing you’ll think of… unfortunately. 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/29 "2008-04-28T19:00:40Z")
Someone I saw it with commented it was like a live-action South Park. In almost every scene you didn’t think they’d go there - and then they did, and more so. But it always ended with a laugh. I liked it a lot, even better than the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/30 "2008-04-28T21:44:12Z")
Shit. I missed the stinger. My wife never lets me sit through the credits. I have never seen so much bush in a movie, and I tell you what, if for nothing else, it was soooo worth it just for that. (Damn, I’m almost 40; I’m never going to grow out of this, am I?) Overall, though, while it was an _okay_ raunchy comedy, it didn’t go anywhere near the heights of the first Harold and Kumar, Superbad, the first American Pie, or There’s Something About Mary. Major faults: 1. The Kumar love story. We didn’t need anything so earnest. 2. The Rob Corddry character was not funny in the slightest. 3. Kumar was way too stupid, especially with the bong on the plane. They should have found a less stupid way of their getting sent to Guantanamo. 4. The eeeeviiilll preppy villain. Come on, people. Why not just cast James Spader? And, wait, how do we know he’s a badguy? He won’t let his fiancee smoke pot. Uh, okay, slightly over-the-top on the pro-pot message. 5. I just couldn’t buy the whole George W. Bush scene. 6. Amsterdam sequence – boooooring Highlights: - the Miami sequence - the Neil Patrick Harris sequence - the scary country bumpkins sequence. Oh, and John Cho and Kal Penn should be slapped silly for chickening out in the Miami sequence – come on, guys, _everyone else was showing_! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/31 "2008-04-28T21:56:41Z")
Especially considering that John Cho has really nice pubes. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/32 "2008-04-28T21:59:31Z")
[QUOTE=acsenray] I have never seen so much bush in a movie, and I tell you what, if for nothing else, it was soooo worth it just for that. [/QUOTE] And the weird part is he actually seemed like a likable guy when he’s at home on the ranc… Oh. Never mind. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/33 "2008-04-28T22:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=acsenray] - the scary country bumpkins sequence. [/QUOTE] The scary country bumpkins with a beautifully decorated home don’t forget- I loved that part! But the “dolphin voice” (again no spoiler as you don’t know what it means until you see the movie) freaked me out! ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/34 "2008-04-28T22:09:25Z")
Piece of crap. We went to see it last night on the strength of the last one, which took me by surprise with how funny it was. This was the first film I’ve ever seen that I strongly, _strongly_ wanted to walk out of. For raunchiness to be funny it requires incongruity; gross-out jokes every forty seconds ruin the effect. The love story was stupid. Rob Cordry might be the worst comedic actor I’ve ever seen, and I think, perhaps, that he should be dragged out back and shot. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/35 "2008-04-28T22:22:38Z")
I loved the first film like it was my very own. The sequel was like something they put through the Sequel-O-Matic 900, a machine that takes the funny stuff and makes it 10x longer and cruder (and therefore 10x less funny), and all it got as input was the Battle Shits bit. John Cho’s whole ‘I’m saying something calmly, NOW I’M REPEATING IT LIKE A LUNATIC!’ shtick wore thin real fast and Kal Penn was pure caricature. Plus did anyone else notice most of his groin-related lines were obviously done in ADR? Methinks some genius exec didn’t want to pay fro reshoots but though there should be more dick jokes. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/36 "2008-05-08T02:35:50Z")
[QUOTE=CandidGamera] Don’t forget to stay through the credits for the stinger. [/QUOTE] Saw it today. Need to get in the habit of not walking out when the credits start. Can you spoil this for me? I was dissapointed. I really liked the first one, to my surprise, since I generally hate stoner/buddy movies. It was too heavy handed/preachy with a lot of the terrorist stuff. I didn’t mind the raunchiness (and it took some balls to show lots of frontal bottomless nudity these days when strangely nudity is becoming scarcer and scarcer), but it just didn’t quite have the charm of the original. Not enough funny moments. Nothing half as good as “Bullets! My only weakness! How did you know?” or “Bitch! Learn how to make coffee!” from the first one, although the NPH scene (you know which one) was pretty good. In fact I want a screencap of his initials, they’d make a great avatar on other boards. They should’ve had Neil Patrick Harris as Neil Patrick Harris play a bigger role. For some reason he’s gold. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/37 "2008-05-08T02:45:26Z")
[QUOTE=SenorBeef] Saw it today. Need to get in the habit of not walking out when the credits start. Can you spoil this for me? [/QUOTE] It’s only about 5 seconds. At the whorehouse, a bloody NPH slowly raises his head and says “Motherfucker!” ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/38 "2008-05-08T02:53:36Z")
Awesome. They could do a spinoff movie - Neil Patrick Harris as Neil Patrick Harris gets messed up, travels randomly, and mistreats hookers and I’m there. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460/39 "2008-05-08T14:11:45Z")
[QUOTE=acsenray] Shit. I missed the stinger. My wife never lets me sit through the credits. I have never seen so much bush in a movie, and I tell you what, if for nothing else, it was soooo worth it just for that. [/QUOTE] I admire that artistic choice. The past decade or so, it’s been like Hollywood is afraid of ladies’ “girl parts”. Reluctant to venture into the enchanted forest. Unwilling to scale _Veneris Mons_. Even in a raunchy comedy like _Eurotrip_, there was a whole screenfull of bouncy, floppy penises, yet no female full frontal nudity. (Why are we using spoiler codes?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay/429460.md?page=1)