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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (Unrated Special Edition) [Blu-ray] | ![Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (Unrated Special Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BfTYmi0tL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: Beverly D'angelo, Paula Garcés, Neil Patrick Harris, David Krumholtz, Jack Conley
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 4434
Format: Color, Special Edition, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TRNBRN40633
UPC: 794043122941
EAN: 0794043122941
ASIN: B0019K65PO
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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Product Description
Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 07/29/2008 Rating: Ur
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Beginning precisely where Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle left off, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay takes the film franchise in a more boorish and spuriously topical direction. Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, during which Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a wild-eyed, racist Homeland Security nut (Rob Corddry) to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay, where beefy guards sexually subjugate "enemy combatants." The duo manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected fiance (Eric Winter) of Kumar's old girlfriend, Vanessa (Danneel Harris), can get them out of their mess. During a dangerous and grotesque odyssey to Texas (where Vanessa is marrying her rich and vain boyfriend, much to Kumar's dismay), Harold and Kumar have episodic encounters with the Ku Klux Klan, a one-eyed, inbred monster, and old friend Neil Patrick Harris (as himself), who swallows fistfuls of magic mushrooms and drags the boys to a brothel stop that goes terribly wrong. The desultory comedy strikes a lowbrow tone from its opening scene (Harold takes a shower while Kumar has a diarrhea attack) and doesn't get much more interesting than that. If there's a bodily fluid that doesn't rate a joke in Guantanamo Bay, it doesn't exist. The persistent sight gags about weed (including a smoky visit with President Bush) never reach the kind of giddy pitch that pot humor requires, leaving a lot of the film's comedy just hanging like dead space. The sequel's attempt to say something, albeit in a gross way, about the state of the country during the Bush years is obvious and empty. Really, there isn't a lot of reason for Guantanamo Bay to have been made, except to print money. --Tom Keogh
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 freakin hilarious November 13, 2008
Matt Corenzwit
if you liked the first, there is NO WAY you can dislike this one. it's gut-busting funny.
I laughed. A lot. I'm just not sure if I should feel guilty about that! October 14, 2008
Rachel Slater (Las Vegas, NV, USA)
First off, I have to say that, IMO, the first one was better. It's usually true of sequels, so that shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone. As for the movie? Many of the jokes were crude and/or offensive to any number of religous/ethnic/political/ect. groups and/or peoples. But, you know what, if you can't take a joke then that's too bad, so although the jokes might be offensive, I don't think anyone should take offense. That being said, if you saw and liked the first movie, this is essentially more of the same. Harold and Kumar are the same likable loosers they were in the first film... and they're still getting high. Also, they're still getting lost. It's still funny though. Oh, and NPH steals the show. Again.
No special extras to speak of on this DVD, but I don't know that they're really needed anyway.
 Product not as described October 13, 2008
Maximilian Montez
The case makes this look like a bootlegged copy, this was a gift for someone and I was humiliated. Thanks.
 Stupidly Funny October 8, 2008
Lex (Virginia)
This is really a pot head's movie. There's always a laugh in this film, mostly seeming to concern race. But I found those jokes to be handled in a really funny way. I mean many of the stereotypes explored in this film are rather stupid. So laughing at them makes them even stupider which shows that racism is, indeed, stupid.
Having said that there is a poltical statement from jump street in this film. Harold and Kumar are sent to Gitmo because they're believed to be terrortist, despite their protests. If that's not saying something then I don't know what is. Their parents are treated awfully, which is again another statement.
In fact this movie could be considered a political comedy, but it's not. It's still got the weed, but to a less degree this time than in the first.
Everyone is cast really well in this. I was happy to see John Reep(as I think he's rather funny) and he was spot on playing a Southern redneck you'll actually like.(Which, even though he's a Southerner, isn't as easy as you may think.)
I would hope to be seeing a third film, but if not two is just fine with me. They're going to be classic, stupid comedies.
Awesome October 6, 2008
J. Bavinck (Auckland, New Zealand)
People may say it's not as good as the first one but I think that is only because of the prejudice you automatically have when a second movie gets released.
This one is great because they have managed to capture the essence of the first movie. If they could not get the same actors it would not have been worth making....
So do yourself a favour and get it! An instant classic!
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