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Harold and Kumar 2 (2008)
aka "Harold and Kumar Go to Amsterdam" - USA (working title)

Ed Helms .... Intrepeter

nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The first one was such a great surprise, probably because everyone thought it would be shit, will this one live up to and/or surpass our now high (lol) expectations?

nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

scenes in Guantanamo

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The first one was such a great surprise, probably because everyone thought it would be shit,

Not those of us who had already seen Dude, Where's My Car!

Seriously though, I had no idea they were by the same director until I checked the IMDb page for Harold & Kumar. But he isn't involved with the sequel, I wonder if it'll be as good as those two.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, I just checked the imdb page and it lists the same directing/writing team for H&K and the sequel, but NOT for Dude Where's My Car. Weird.

Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The first one was such a great surprise, probably because everyone thought it would be shit,

Not those of us who had already seen Dude, Where's My Car!

I'd seen DWMC, and I was still surprised. (Mostly because I didn't think DWMC was super funny.)

luna (luna), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"Maria Quesa Dilla" - FFS.

I remember hearing somewhere that they were going to do a kind of Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead half-sequel thing with the Jewish guys that went to Hot Dog Heaven, I guess not then?

nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not a surprise Dude Where's My Car wasn't written by the same people as Harold & Kumar, it's way stoopider. But in a good way. I think it'll be one day viewed as the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure of the 00's.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude > H&K > Bill & Ted

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Morbs, you're beginning to piss ME off

jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Morbs is just sayin that cuz Ashton is hottttter than Kumar

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

which one was John Cho? he's cute.

hell, Keanu was the hottest of all 6 of them, but I like stoner humor to be funny unstoned, like in the DUDE!SWEET! scene.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

stoner humor to be funny unstoned, like in the DUDE!SWEET! scene

DOES NOT COMPUTE

nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

also, JW prefers Klingon Christopher Lloyd to Ricardo MontalKhan!

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

okay that I don't understand

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I never really thought about it, but I don't think I've ever watched ...Excellent Adventure while high. Although I did watch it while 11 years old, which is pretty similar.

nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Bogus Journey & H&K are the two that outshine them all

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i watched excellent adventure on new year's day this year totally hungover and it was magically delicious.

a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

also, JW prefers Klingon Christopher Lloyd to Ricardo MontalKhan!

-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...)

klingon christopher plummer > khan > klingon christopher lloyd

the cute girl from 24 is in dude wheres my car

and what (ooo), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Plummer is indeed great but better than Khan...? I dunno

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

H & K fans don't acknowledge that half of it is smart & funny, and the other half is puerile filler like "Battleshits" and Neil Patrick Harris (which will really date the film in ten years when no one but Gen Y nostalgists remember who he was).

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I had no idea who he is, so that joke was kinda lost on me.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Battleshits and NPH were the best parts!

31g (31g), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

"I was trippin' balls"

I will enjoy this no matter what. The first one was such a surprise, I still can't remember why I first watched it oddly enough. No, drugs were not involved!

kv_nol (kv_nol), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Gen Y nostalgists

yr timing's a bit off here

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

what years did Doogie Howser run?

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

89-93, jr high -> high school for me

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked "battleshits." There were some jokes I could have done without, but that's sort of part of the bargain with comedies like these.

Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a kind of interesting discussion with some kind of lamewads last night re: the difference between "stoner comedy" as a comedy for stoners vs a "stoner comedy" as a comedy in which the main characters are stoners, it started promising, but quickly devolved into a frustrating younger guy with two first names basically trying to tell us why Bogus Journey wasn't funny.

nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the other half is puerile filler like "Battleshits"

LIST EVIDENCE PLZ

jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

hah, like I remember specifics from seeing the movie once!

also the New Jersey driving geography in it is science fiction.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

well yeah, that's the thing. W/ H&K, the characters are actual stoners, but there's _so_ much shit going on at multiple levels in the flick that it can't be resigned to some bin as "simplistic stoner comedy"

xp

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

NPH was the best part!

also the New Jersey driving geography in it is science fiction.

Especially because there's a White Castle in Jersey City!

dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link


huge hanggliding cliffs in burlington county, too.

H & K fans don't acknowledge that half of it is smart & funny, and the other half is puerile filler like "Battleshits" and Neil Patrick Harris (which will really date the film in ten years when no one but Gen Y nostalgists remember who he was).

meloni's character in it was painfully lame. the first half hour is pretty good, then it gets bogged down in weird, retarded shit - that, crucially, isn't funny.

GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

and there IS white castle in new brunswick! its gross!

max (maxreax), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

haha I just bought H&K on DVD - will report back, but I remember finding the battleshits thing funny (if it was too fat ugly guys it wouldn't be funny at all, but the fact that its two "perfect" girls makes the gag)

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably the 3 funniest parts of the fillum (for me):

1. Anthony Anderson's scene ("c'mon Pookie let's burn this motherfucker down!")

2. Jamie Kennedy's scene* ("what, is this your SPECIAL BUSH? are you KING OF FOREST?")

3. the life-with-bag-of-weed montage

All of which were kind of random throwaway scenes (except AA's White Castle lament)

*note: I don't generally find Jamie Kennedy entertaining AT ALL

nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

NPH is currently on a hit sitcom, though, so kids of today will remember him in a different context.

mh (mike h.), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

the life-w-bag o weed montage is the funniest thing in the movie

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Morbs is OTM though, this movie is kind of stocked with lots of puerile filler, but, shit, it's puerile filler that makes movies like Airplane entertaining and the lack thereof that makes movies like Chasing Amy barely comedies at all.

nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I'm imagining a deleted scene in Chasing Amy where everyone else in the movie - extras and all - take turns smacking the shit out of Joey Lauren Adams, which would pretty much be the best scene in the movie.

nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah there is tons of puerile filler in it, but I guess I don't have the same opinion as Morbs on exactly where it is. The disgusted looks on H&K's faces when they see those girls in the hall after the battleshits scene is one of the best moments in the movie.

the characters are actual stoners

They aren't stereotypical movie stoners though--I mean Harold is a fucking investment banker. That's one of the things I enjoyed about it, because I know people IRL who really love weed but are also tremendous overachievers.

31g (31g), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"puerile filler"

elmo albatross (allocryptic), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

the worst scene is the freak dude in the shack with the hot wife. everything else is pure classic

akm (akmonday), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

ryan reynolds's delivery of the line "but why?" is like the highlight of my life

max (maxreax), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7bK3w9Mw6w

milo (milo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1CwsNw7yY

milo (milo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

haha "I been craving burgers too...FUR BURGERS"

nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfIuJz16ouM

Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Thursday, 15 February 2007 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, the Chinatown bootleg DVD experience.

milo (milo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

the worst scene is the freak dude in the shack with the hot wife. everything else is pure classic

Yeah, that scene was weird, there was such a buildup that resulted in nothing. I guess the film-makers wanted to fuck around with movie cliches, but the result wasn't really funny at all.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 15 February 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I know people IRL who really love weed but are also tremendous overachievers.

That's worst of all.

Don't they use "puerile filler" at Taco Bell?

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link


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