Director: Danny Leiner

Screenplay: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg

I make it a firm habit never to muck about with the sort of filmmaking that produces work such as Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. However, since the film’s release in 2004, that title, that ridiculously languid title has echoed from the depths of my cerebellum.  Now, some six years later, I’ve given in.  Well, to be honest, in the end it wasn’t the title that got me to see the film.  It was the realization that the film concerned two grown men living together.

It’s not that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is a good film or a bad film.  Such a classification is irrelevant.  Rather, the film is utter perfection as a case study of homoeroticism in the contemporary “buddy” comedy.

The “story” of Harold and Kumar involves marijuana and cheeseburgers, with the former barely being edged out by the latter as king.   A tremendous quest for cheeseburgers then ensues.  From a superficial view point, this is simply two good friends desperate to obtain their favourite meal.  But scratch the surface almost effortlessly and what’s buried beneath is crystal clear.

Seen from this perspective, meat and its bewitching allure drives the film as surely as does a libido.  In layman’s terms, Harold and Kumar’s quest is a quest for meat, and plenty of it.

So reverential is this meat in fact, that once Harold and Kumar get it, it proves to be the cure for all the problems the boys face with regards to women, bullies or any other conflict that life can throw at them.  They’ve stuffed themselves with meat and their hunger has been sated.  By the film’s end, both a symbolic as well as a physical penetration has occured in the lads, changing their views on everything and making them realize that their true strength was in them all along and that surprise, surprise,  it was hiding.

Still, although the film unearths the great depth of sexual attractions and feelings that Harold and Kumar share toward one another, it tries (in vain) to poke fun at the honest emotions behind what bonds Harold and Kumar.  Harold, for example, coming home after a difficult day at work to find Kumar trimming his pubic hair with a set of Harold’s scissors.  Kumar licking Harold’s face in order to “revive” him.  These sorts of dalliances into the arena of male courting patterns are to be perceived as little more than silly notions of homosexuality between two ostensibly very heterosexual men. In reality, this practice determines that not only are there feelings between these two friends, but also just how tender of a bond those feelings are.  For its part, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle soundly fails at dispelling any sort of male intimacy by mocking it.  For goodness sake, there’s even a giant penis cut into a wheat field, seen by the pair as they sail by, snuggled up together in a hang glider.

Yet, what quite possibly persists in most endearing me to this film is that below its crack-up of homosexuality, there truly exists a soul.  Down beneath the frivolous surface it shines: a world where men form alliances that aren’t broken by women and where alliances with their brethren elevate them to phenomenal plains of ecstasy.  Plains of ecstasy, I might add, that came solely from a slab of beef inserted betwixt two pillowy soft buns.

-Brice Hornell

Lionsgate

El estudio Lionsgate ha comprado el guión de Josh Friedlander que se llama “One night Stan” (que es un juego de palabras sobre que Stan tenga una noche y que sea una noche de sexo casual) para que lo dirijan los directores de Harold y Kumar: Escape de la bahía de Guantánamo, John Hurwitz y Hayden Schlossberg.

El guión, según como nos lo cuenta el The Hollywood Reporter, trata de el escenario en la cual nosotros los hombres fantaseamos en el matrimonio. Todo comienza cuando Stan se entera de que su prometida, Julie, ha tenido más compañeros sexuales que él, y ella en su afán de apoyarlo, le da chance para que en una noche, trate de alcanzarla. Desafortunadamente, sus planes para tener un buffet lleno de sexo no le salen como esperaba.

Aún no nos dicen la fecha del inicio de la filmación de esta movie.

Title: Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Year: 2008
Directors: Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg
Writers: Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn
Music: George S. Clinton
Length: 107 minutes
Synopsis: Harold & Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), February 2009
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay).
Objective Rating: 5/10 (gets points for characters, dialog, pacing, acting and subjective rating) c. 2.0/4 (Indifferent).

Not actually funny, except for some of the Neil Patrick Harris bits. But it’s mildly entertaining anyway.

Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 07/29/2008 Rating: Ur

Beginning precisely where Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle left off, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay takes the film franchise in a more boorish and spuriously topical direction. Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, during which Kumar’s suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a wild-eyed, racist Homeland Security nut (Rob Corddry) to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay, where beefy guards sexually subjugate “enemy combatants.” The duo manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected fiance (Eric Winter) of Kumar’s old girlfriend, Vanessa (Danneel Harris), can get them out of their mess. During a dangerous and grotesque odyssey to Texas (where Vanessa is marrying her rich and vain boyfriend, much to Kumar’s dismay), Harold and Kumar have episodic encounters with the Ku Klux Klan, a one-eyed, inbred monster, and old friend Neil Patrick Harris (as himself), who swallows fistfuls of magic mushrooms and drags the boys to a brothel stop that goes terribly wrong.

The desultory comedy strikes a lowbrow tone from its opening scene (Harold takes a shower while Kumar has a diarrhea attack) and doesn’t get much more interesting than that. If there’s a bodily fluid that doesn’t rate a joke in Guantanamo Bay, it doesn’t exist. The persistent sight gags about weed (including a smoky visit with President Bush) never reach the kind of giddy pitch that pot humor requires, leaving a lot of the film’s comedy just hanging like dead space. The sequel’s attempt to say something, albeit in a gross way, about the state of the country during the Bush years is obvious and empty. Really, there isn’t a lot of reason for Guantanamo Bay to have been made, except to print money. –Tom Keogh

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Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 07/29/2008 Rating: Ur

Beginning precisely where Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle left off, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay takes the film franchise in a more boorish and spuriously topical direction. Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, during which Kumar’s suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a wild-eyed, racist Homeland Security nut (Rob Corddry) to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay, where beefy guards sexually subjugate “enemy combatants.” The duo manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected fiance (Eric Winter) of Kumar’s old girlfriend, Vanessa (Danneel Harris), can get them out of their mess. During a dangerous and grotesque odyssey to Texas (where Vanessa is marrying her rich and vain boyfriend, much to Kumar’s dismay), Harold and Kumar have episodic encounters with the Ku Klux Klan, a one-eyed, inbred monster, and old friend Neil Patrick Harris (as himself), who swallows fistfuls of magic mushrooms and drags the boys to a brothel stop that goes terribly wrong.

The desultory comedy strikes a lowbrow tone from its opening scene (Harold takes a shower while Kumar has a diarrhea attack) and doesn’t get much more interesting than that. If there’s a bodily fluid that doesn’t rate a joke in Guantanamo Bay, it doesn’t exist. The persistent sight gags about weed (including a smoky visit with President Bush) never reach the kind of giddy pitch that pot humor requires, leaving a lot of the film’s comedy just hanging like dead space. The sequel’s attempt to say something, albeit in a gross way, about the state of the country during the Bush years is obvious and empty. Really, there isn’t a lot of reason for Guantanamo Bay to have been made, except to print money. –Tom Keogh

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Actress Rachel McAdams (The Family Stone) has been cast as Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes’ love interest in the forthcoming adaptation from director Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla) starring Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder) and Jude Law (Sleuth).

Series creator Shane Black has written and intends to direct Lethal Weapon 5, which introduces two young new NYPD cops (wait, aren’t the Lethal Weapon films set in LA?). Plans will move forward as soon as series co-star Mel Gibson approves the script. In the meantime, Black is directing Cold Warrior.

Steve Pink (Accepted) will write and direct a remake of the 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Apparently several big names are interested in joining the cast.

Harold & Kumar creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg will write and direct Til Beth Do Us Part, a comedy about two buddies whose friendship is put in jeopardy when one of them gets engaged.

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Name: Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481536/
Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/harold_and_kumar_2/
Trailer: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8w3ZxcT2Lhk&feature=related

mFacts:

01. A film with Neil Patrick Harris is always better than one without Neil Patrick Harris.
02. Jews like gold.
03. Black people like grape pop.
04. Cheetahs like weed.
05. Never leave NPH alone with a hooker.
06. Ugly men have hot wives.
07. A bottomless party is awesome until you’re asked to take off your pants.
08. Fat guys in convenient stores do great teradactle impressions.
09. It’s okay to piss on Harold, but not on Kumar.
10. Never leave Kumar alone with your nosehair clipper.
11. Neil Patrick Harris never dies!
12. When bringing weed on an airplane, wait until landing to smoke it.
13. The best George W. Bush impersonator was not available.
14. Hot girls still wants to kiss you when you smell of hamburgers, blood, sweat and weed.
15. Katie Holmes’ tits may or may not be real.
16. It is possible to perform surgery while high.
17. There’s no sense getting all riled up every time a bunch of idiots give you a hard time. In the end, the universe tends to unfold as it should.
18. Never say bomb or BONG on an airplane.
19. Guantanamo Bay is actually really easy to escape from.
20. Doughnuts are delicious.
21. When giving a cockmeat sandwich to hardened terrorists, never leave the cell door open.
22. Neal Patrick Harris deserves an Oscar for that performance on shrooms.
23. NPH hooked up with every piece of ass on the show Doogie Howser MD…except for the chick who played the hott nurse.
24. Never leave NPH in your car alone, because he will steal it.
25. Never leave NPH in your car alone, because the cops won’t believe he stole it.
26. Don’t judge a huge scary black man as he approaches your car with a crowbar. He might just want to help.
27. George W. Bush hates weddings.
28. Hookers can never find love.
29. Government officials only wipe when the 5th amendment to the US Constitution is the TP.
30. When don’t like giving handjobs, but like getting handjobs, that makes you a hypocrite.
31. He was serious about that Kool-Aid.
32. NPH goes wherever God takes him.
33. When ever you see a hot girl through a window in amsterdam about to kiss a german guy in leather it is probobly just a photoshoot.
34. NPH likes big knockers.
35. Farming not high is boaring as sh*t.
36. If you call a black guy Matthew Perry he will immediatly get pissed off.
37. Never trust men in guerilla masks even if you think hes your BF.
38. The KKK throws Keggers frequently.
39. Little white girls signify the U.S.A.
40. Men’s faces from the middle east looks exactly like their privates with a beard.
41. A Jew’s weakness is loose change.
42. A black man’s weakness is grape soda, or Kool-Aid.
43. A government official’s weakness is a little white girl (America).
44. A Korean guy’s eyes make him look retarded.
45. If you are a preppy guy with a “date-rape face”, who’s father has ties to the president, then you are indeed awesome.
46. Bottomless parties are a great idea. Period.
40. Two words: Starship Fu*ckin Troopers….(Okay it’s three words)
41. Goldstein had sex with Cindy Kim.
42. Neil Patrick Harris hopes that T-Bird kept the baby
43. Every time Neil Patrick Harris sees Hershey Kiss’s, his balls get wet
44. It’s perfectly safe to smoke weed in the school library
45. The most hideous boil face in the world has a singing voice like a bird
46. The KKK know how to party
47. Harold is a twinkie, yellow on the outside and white on the inside
48. Mentioning those perfect square burgers to another hamberger resturant employee… makes him wanna burn that motherf—— place down
49. Extreme punks listen to lite/pop rock
50. Venessa’s fiancee really is a douche bag
51. Ron Fox enjoys eating malt balls while listening to Top Gun’s “Dangerous Zone”
52. Both Harold and Kumar have no idea what they’re doing when they jump from the sky with a glider or parachute
53. Harold used to be emo.
55. Hey…. *beep* Kumar!
56. In Guatanamo Bay they serve cockmeat sandwich
57. Bush invites trespassers into his secret hideout
58. Throwing something at Harold, saying ‘Think fast!’ is NOT a good idea
59. When Kumar falls from up on high and hits his head, his ass hurts.
60. A woman fisting a human sized bag of ganja crossed my line.
61. Harold & Kumar were DESTINED to be together…hence emo Harold loitering in the background whilst Kumar tucked in.
62. Weed in America gives you the MAD-MUNCHIES to such a degree one can eat 30 burgers in one sitting.
63. Business Hippy = Douchebag
64. Kumar can smell douche
65. Learning Hindi wasn’t such a bad idea…because it meant the Indian store owner smiled.
66. Americans have a sense of humour
67. Kumar’s idiot brother should’ve been in number 2
68. Bottomless parties are great…but tits are required
69. Some sterotypical prejudice will NEVER stop being funny.
70. Eating an entire bag of shrooms and talking about Starship Troopers will NOT make you see big F@CK OFF bugs everywhere. Neither will the snozberries taste like snozberries.
71. I learned how to play Battle $hits.
72. Weed makes your life more colorful.
73. Never let you roommate take a dump when u are taking bath.
74. Library is a great place to do weed, and make out.
75. You can swim while sky diving.
76. Govt. officials don’t wipe their ass clean.
77. Redneck Farmers that live in the middle of no where have internet.
78. George Bush smokes that Bama Kush.
79. Current presidents love smoking weed, but they grow out of it as soon as they leave the oval office.
80. Follow the unicorn to find out the secret of being.
81. That a bong can be mistaken for a bomb.
82. Old white people think indians are terrorists.
83. That cubans do not know how great TiVO really is.
84. That a poem with mathematical equations can touch you and make you cry.
85. White Castles is worth it.
86. When you crash your car into a black neighborhood and they approach you with crowbars, they just want to help.
87. Your dad is always forcing you to live up to his standards, especially when he was the President of the United States