Starring Kal Penn John Cho Rob Corddry Danneel Harris Neil Patrick Harris. Their last adventure found them traveling across country to find a White Castle hamburger in order to satisfy a weed-induced case of 'the munchies. Fresh from White Castle, Harold and Kumar get sent to Guantanamo Bay as potential terrorists after Kumar’s bong is mistaken for a bomb at the airport. Summary: Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay marks the triumphant return of these two hilarious, slacker anti-heroes. The movie has its blind spots - it's rather homophobic, and for every clever gag there's a base one - but it finds comedy in a subject that isn't at all funny. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. In hot pursuit of these fugitives is a determined but culturally clueless Homeland Security agent (Rob Corddry) who sums up everything that's wrong in These Troubled Times - at one point he literally wipes his ass with the fifth amendment. ![]() It's a red herring, really - they escape within half an hour, and proceed to stumble through an American landscape of ethnic stereotypes, all of which are both subverted and re-affirmed (the Alabama rednecks' shack, for example, has a tasteful, yuppie-standard interior, but they still keep an inbred, one-eyed son in the basement). ![]() A mishap with a "smokeless bong" on their flight to Amsterdam leads to their branding as terrorists, and an orange-jumpsuited spell in Guantanamo Bay. ![]() Despite an all-American penchant for marijuana, their ethnicity continuously counts against them. For those who missed this film's predecessor, Harold and Kumar are respectively a Korean-American (John Cho) and an Indian-American (Kal Penn).
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