2008 Woodie Awards
"Harold and Kumar 2" is a hilarious follow-up
By Adam Korman
Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: Entertainment
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As luck would have it, once they get on the plane an old lady spots them and immediately thinks that their terrorists. She keeps calm at first but once Kumar goes to the bathroom and tries out his new invention, the smokeless bong, she mistakes it for a bomb and the boys get held up with our nation's Homeland Security boys.
Playing on the stereotypes of every sense we have a buffoon of an officer played by Rob Corddry who is named Ron Fox. He sees them as Korean and Iraqi and figures the two countries are working together to stop our freedoms and sends the boys off to Guantanamo Bay. After an escape involving a certain kind of sandwich, Harold and Kumar find themselves on the run ranging from Miami to Alabama to Texas in order to clear their names.
Fox chases closely behind them, stopping in Alabama where Harold and Kumar leave an abandoned car, and questions some of the locals. Fox's character, who believe all stereotypes to be true, questions a local African American and in order to get him to tell the truth, pours him a can of grape soda.
While questioning Harold and Kumar's Jewish friends, he pours a small bag of pennies on the table playing into the Jewish stereotype. Followed by a quick comment from one of the friends says "What? About seven dollars more or less?" We see every stereotype from African Americans to Jews to Red-necks even the Klu Klux Klan makes an appearance in this movie.
The real focus is no longer on the boys getting to Amsterdam but to get to Texas where Kumar's ex-girlfriend is getting married to an egotistical jerk who's only concern is getting into the White House just like his dad, and befriending the president of the United States. Kumar sees this as a great way for him to break up the wedding and win back the girl he lost in college.
For all you of the Neil Patrick Harris fans out there, the answer is yes, he is back for round two and this time we see more of him and he is just as off the wall as he was before.
This time, he finds the boys in Alabama and drives them closer to Texas. Once he picks up Harold and Kumar, he immediately states that he goes where God tells him to and downs a bag of shrooms washed down with a nice cold beer. After a little driving, they run into a checkpoint brought up by Fox himself.
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WTF
posted 7/30/08 @ 8:41 AM EST
While questioning Harold and Kumar's Jewish friends, he pours a small bag of pennies on the table playing into the Jewish stereotype. Followed by a quick comment from one of the friends says "What? About seven dollars more or less?" We see every stereotype from African Americans to Jews to Red-necks even the Klu Klux Klan makes an appearance in this movie. (Continued…)
Adam Korman
posted 8/19/08 @ 1:13 PM EST
I apologize for leaving some of the stereotypes out of my article. I only put a few of the ones that stood out because they also used them in the first movie. (Continued…)
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