Harold and Kumar 2 (2008)
aka “Harold and Kumar Go to Amsterdam” - USA (working title)
Ed Helms .... Intrepeter
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?
scenes in Guantanamo
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.
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.
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.)
“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?
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.
Dude > H&K > Bill & Ted
Morbs, you’re beginning to piss ME off
Morbs is just sayin that cuz Ashton is hottttter than Kumar
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.
stoner humor to be funny unstoned, like in the DUDE!SWEET! scene
DOES NOT COMPUTE
also, JW prefers Klingon Christopher Lloyd to Ricardo MontalKhan!
okay that I don’t understand
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.
Bogus Journey & H&K are the two that outshine them all
i watched excellent adventure on new year’s day this year totally hungover and it was magically delicious.
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
Plummer is indeed great but better than Khan...? I dunno
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).
I had no idea who he is, so that joke was kinda lost on me.
Battleshits and NPH were the best parts!
“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!
Gen Y nostalgists
yr timing’s a bit off here
what years did Doogie Howser run?
89–93, jr high -> high school for me
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.
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.
the other half is puerile filler like “Battleshits”
LIST EVIDENCE PLZ
hah, like I remember specifics from seeing the movie once!
also the New Jersey driving geography in it is science fiction.
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”
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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!
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.
and there IS white castle in new brunswick! its gross!
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)
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
NPH is currently on a hit sitcom, though, so kids of today will remember him in a different context.
the life-w-bag o weed montage is the funniest thing in the movie
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.
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.
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.
“puerile filler”
the worst scene is the freak dude in the shack with the hot wife. everything else is pure classic
ryan reynolds’s delivery of the line “but why?” is like the highlight of my life
haha “I been craving burgers too...FUR BURGERS”
Ah, the Chinatown bootleg DVD experience.
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.
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?