3.0, United States/Canada

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

2008 / Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg > Let’s just keep it simple and say this is an out and out absurdity of a film. There, that makes things easier. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay won’t win Oscars (nor it should), but it does things that keep you glued to the screen until the end—even through an unbelievable sequence involving George W. Bush where you can’t help but smile. Doogie Howser is all kinds of crazy, and Kumar’s math poetry just makes you tear a little. There is, however, definitely a generational gap in the film that scours it away from a significant amount of moviegoers, and those who are easily offended will probably switch off within the first half hour.

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