A thread for "Harold And Kumar Go To Amsterdam"

I'm looking forward to this as much as I'm looking forward to the new Indiana Jones

OH HELL YES

So Amsterdam is White Castle? I think I get it.

weren't they sposta go to Abu Ghraib?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0481536/

Plot Outline:
Follows the cross-country adventures of the pot-smoking duo as they try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.

oh my goodness, i need to see this

omg kal penn marry me!

weren't they sposta go to Abu Ghraib?

They get sent to Guantanamo

hopefully we get more neil patrick harris?

he's listed in the cast

And in the trailer.

yes!

hooray Neil Patrick Harris!

richard christy plays a klan member in this

Richard Christy is amazing,

Fantastic! V excited now.

NP Harris & John Cho rumored to have amazing mutual fellatio scene

Having recanted my 'go to white castle' hate, i am def looking forward to this.

clip too short

does mutual mean to each other, or more like just at the same time?

Why would they try to smuggle a bong TO Amsterdam?
The entire premise of this movie is flawed.

harold & kumar escape from guantanamo bay.

no, really.

WAU

this will be sweet

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/829/829335/harold-kumar-2-20071022051851838.jpg

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/whatwouldnphdo.jpg

sweet god

I saw him on the subway the other day.

I love him, he looks like Li'l Sting.

He was really ordinary looking, like in a way that you'd never think he was a celebrity if you didn't know him. He was also doing the same weird coked-up facial twitches he did in the movie.

guys is there a "gonads & strife" thread? i really don't want to have to create a whole new thread just to go GONADS IN THE LIGHTNING

God that's awesome, is that a real poster?

wow. just... wow.

totally fer real xpost

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/27/harold-kumar-escape-from-guantanamo-bay-movie-trailer/

this will surely be the greatest film ever made.

Was kinda looking forward to this, but honestly any comedy that pulls out bad presidential impersonations (especially GWB or Clinton) as the big guns it needs to show off in the trailer is kinda instantly earmarked as the kind of movie I don't wanna see.

i hope there's more pot humor than the trailers show off (it'd suck if this was the kind of movie people support for its politics because the comedy isn't actually surefire) but either way lol.

and really, what's more surefire than pot "humor"

not much

esp when they did the 4 pot jokes in the first film.

i'm curious if they're even going to address NPH coming out of the closet since the first film or if they'll just proceed as if it's business as usual (the latter would probably be funnier).

a simple "dude i'll fuck anything that moves" line would suffice

suck face w/ John Cho, and I'll be there opening day

tmi

this looks kinda funny i guess

If they didn't put all the best jokes in the trailer, this might actually be good. If they did...

debuts at SXSW.

the stoner cannes.

meanwhile:

At the bottom of Debbie Schlussel’s post is the R-rated trailer for what looks to be a decidedly unfunny and mean-spirited chapter in the continuing exploits of Harold and Kumar.

The first one was watchable and funny at times, but the schtick got tired after an a hour adding nothing whatsoever to the road comedy genre. It should be interesting to see how teens take to this one which seems to be banking on young people’s belief America’s a racist country and too hard on the terrorists.

The irony is that this is about as cutting-edge as yelling “boobies” at a frat party, but no doubt the filmmakers think otherwise.

Furious D Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Here’s how they should have done it:

Harold and Kumar go to Gitmo because a Michael Moore type reporter framed them so he could have a story.

On the way they hear all kinds of horror stories, but when they get there, it’s like a hyper-perky summer camp, with Donny Osmond as the Commandant.

The “torture” are all harmless summer-camp style games. Waterboarding turns out to be a pool game played with boogie boards. Interrogations are basically lap-dances and puppet shows.

They get their lawyer to tell the State Department that weed is part of their religion, and the US government has to provide them with free pot to avoid an ACLU lawsuit.

Once they get the free pot, they refuse to leave, even though they’ve been cleared. So a CIA agent arranges for a terrorist to kidnap them during his escape into Cuba, so the agent can have an embarrassing story to leak to the New York Times.

Once in Cuba they face terrorists, dodgy Cuban medicine, Zombie Castro, the ghost of Che Guevera (trapped forever in that famous picture that gets printed on various, and increasingly unpleasant merchandise) and Neil Patrick Harris as Neil Patrick Harris - Actor and nuclear bomb defuser.

Toss in Stephen Wright as the President and I think whole thing writes itself.

b/c Castro LUVS him some terrists

The irony is that this is about as cutting-edge as yelling “boobies” at a frat party, but no doubt the filmmakers think otherwise.

-- kingfish, Monday, March 3, 2008 6:35 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yes it's so ironic

scene w/ smoking up Dubya doesn't seem very funny. I'm kind of tired of That's My Bush joeks.

http://www.whatwouldnphdo.com/

Once in Cuba they face terrorists, dodgy Cuban medicine, Zombie Castro, the ghost of Che Guevera (trapped forever in that famous picture that gets printed on various, and increasingly unpleasant merchandise) and Neil Patrick Harris as Neil Patrick Harris - Actor and nuclear bomb defuser.

actually funny. at least in my head.

I want to see it but no rush. I maintain that Dude Where's My Car is way better but it still gets slept on.

i have a friend who's radically in tune with media representation re: east asians and I shared his relief in how these guys chose to present themselves. that sounds douchey but the asian media representation in the west has always perplexed me. I understand it innately with re: my own race.

but it's plain not funny for long stretches.

i still like it though, like it alot.

i have a friend who's radically in tune with media representation re: east asians and I shared his relief in how these guys chose to present themselves. that sounds douchey

not sure why it sounds douchey?

i don't want to be like some, no offense, white folks who think they know what's up with other cultures when they don't.

presumptuous, i think, is the word.

got it got it. yeah i mean i think the movie very clearly played around with the idea of east asian representation.

i guess. sometimes i feel like i'm in a very sparsely populated tunnel re: race.

presumptuous, i think, is the word...

the trailer for this wasn't really funny

Two days!

Good interview with leads and screenwriters; various spoilers

so apparently, it stinks?

im stoked

My experience in Amsterdam shall never be undermined.

Harold and Kumar Cross the Line
Attacking the politics of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is like subjecting Penthouse Forum to literary criticism. So when I took in a matinée of the stoner sequel last Friday, I was prepared to overlook the film’s distasteful depiction of our president. I was even prepared to disregard the fact that, aside from Harold and Kumar, no one has ever been sent from American soil to Guantanamo, and the only U.S. citizen ever imprisoned there was released once his citizenship became known.

What crossed the line, however, is that the American soldiers stationed in Guantanamo Bay were portrayed as rapists. Political operatives at the Homeland Security Department are fair game, but I don’t think I’m alone in suggesting that showing our troops sodomizing detainees disrespects the many soldiers stationed there who are making great sacrifices to protect our country.

Although it’s hard to believe that Harold and Kumar will be released in any Middle Eastern country, I have no doubt that many foreigners would take this parody of Bush administration policies seriously. Do recall the Turkish film, Valley of the Wolves Iraq, showed U.S. doctors harvesting the organs of detainees to send to Israel.

Posted by Jaime Sneider on April 28, 2008 03:05 PM

lol of the day

Attacking the politics of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is like subjecting Penthouse Forum to literary criticism.

Someone hasn't been around college campuses lately, I see.

It's 35 degrees and raining, and I'm near a theater with five-dollar matinees til 6 p.m. Was going to go home and watch Half Nelson, but how can I not see this instead?

showing our troops sodomizing detainees

Yeah, I'd much rather just read about it in the papers.

Man, that was satisfying.

Prison jokes aren't my style, but having the guard explain why the prisoners are gay but the guards aren't is.

That was really good, I thought. So glad they didn't blow it.

I read somewhere that it's the most sympathetic portrait of W yet?

(in a film, that is)

By far the most credible, moment by moment. The guys' Homeland Security nemesis was also credible in very specific ways.

i think i have too much of a mancrush on kal penn not to see this

this was pretty funny, kinda peters out at the end though.

favorite part: flashback to their college years

I made it to them packing for the trip and then Kumar... finishes. Wau. Then the projector broke.

:( :( :(

-----------I maintain that Dude Where's My Car is way better but it still gets slept on.

i tried to see a 10:00 this on friday, but we got there at 10:10 and they had stopped selling tickets & locked the doors. :( :(

funny moments but it didn't maintain

i was kind of disappointed. cringe to laugh ratio didn't seem as good as the first one (though I haven't seen it since it was in theaters) and way too much of the stuff that should have been funny was already used in trailers/ads/viral marketing. i do agree with latebloomer that best part was totally college flashback.

Good enough for a mall movie on a lazy Saturday night. Had its moments. The Harold bit in the flashback was probably the best gag I've seen in the last year.

wish this was better than it was. still good though.

Come on, this was/is great!

agreed

how is your ass SO filthy?

not as funny as the first one. I made the mistake of watching half of this as the "unrated" version on the dvd, which threw the pacing all off; I watched the second half of it as the normal edit and it seemed snappier, though I don't know for certain, maybe it just got better. Anyway, was alright. Too nice to Bush though.

this was fucking fantastic.

mainly because i miss the grand tradition of complete punch you in the face vileness comedies used to be able to go for without adding the slick sheen of irony one might expect from the apatow crew. and i am fine with apatow, but lets hear it for more stuff that harkens back to caddyshack floating poo jokes for the modern day.

The George Bush stuff at the end was funny cos it seemed like it was probably true.

SNAKES ON A PLANE