On the way to a hoped-for idyll in their spir­i­tual home Ams­ter­dam, our two beloved ston­ers Harold and Kumar take unin­tended detours through Cuba (as col­lat­eral dam­age in the War on Ter­ror), Florida (where they drop trou’ for a “bot­tom­less” party), Alabama (rudely inter­rupt­ing a Klu Klux Klan klatsch), and Texas (where­upon they pass the Mary Jane with the worst George W. Bush imper­son­ator ever).

Harold and Kumar are the best of buds. Get it? “Buds”? Oh, never mind…

Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are the 21^st Century’s answer to Cheech and Chong, and their first film was a rather enjoy­able, free­wheel­ing affair that rev­eled in its absur­dist plot twists and even aided in mak­ing Neil Patrick Har­ris a star again, deservedly. But this sequel unfor­tu­nately wastes too much time pair­ing Harold and Kumar off with their difficult-to-distinguish brunette love inter­ests. It’s as if, like Tal­ladega Nights (read The Dork Report review), it wants to toy with het­ero­sex­ual “gay panic” humor, but chick­ens out; the impli­ca­tion is that Harold and Kumar are actu­ally more in love with each other than any­body else, or even pot.

Drop­pin’ LSD with the NPH

Offi­cial movie site: www.haroldandkumar.com

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