Orange Aid
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
As a thirty year-old, I’m self-conscious about Malin Akerman’s bare breasts selling me on a movie like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. They don’t (see Watchmen), but shouldn’t a sequel as stupid as Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay reward the teenagers who sneak in to watch it? This series, let’s face it, is written for a younger man. Again, civil rights are broached in us-against-them generalities, putting the kid in the audience squarely on the side of progress against narrow-minded, bigoted enforcers of the law. But prison tops out at five minutes and one homophobic joke too many, and then it’s a free-for-all of mostly scatological humor, said nudity, and crackpot Bush apologist nonsense. Harold and Kumar are a funny team, but I’m suspicious of why politics made it into the script at all.
directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
As a thirty year-old, I’m self-conscious about Malin Akerman’s bare breasts selling me on a movie like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. They don’t (see Watchmen), but shouldn’t a sequel as stupid as Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay reward the teenagers who sneak in to watch it? This series, let’s face it, is written for a younger man. Again, civil rights are broached in us-against-them generalities, putting the kid in the audience squarely on the side of progress against narrow-minded, bigoted enforcers of the law. But prison tops out at five minutes and one homophobic joke too many, and then it’s a free-for-all of mostly scatological humor, said nudity, and crackpot Bush apologist nonsense. Harold and Kumar are a funny team, but I’m suspicious of why politics made it into the script at all.
posted by NPK at 8:19 AM
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