Let me say that I am big fan of the Harold and Kumar enterprise, if only b/c yes, it is nice having some non-white, and not especially handsome boys as the leads. The same dynamic and humor is there, John Cho being the uptight choad and Kumar getting all the gross-out jokes. I have to say that what sealed the deal for me was the one brief shot of Kumar masturbating where you see him come over his own face. God Bless America and our sense of humor.

The bit in the south with the KKK and the in-bred child (a cyclops) is a bit hackneyed, but yeah I still laughed. The homeland security chief grew on me. At first he seemed like your typical whiteboy homeland security prick, but they gave him good jokes to wrap it around, like when they bring in Harold and Kumar’s parents, and speak to the former in Korean. The translator squeals something remotely Korean and, when the parents reply in English, clearly audible to everyone–the translator turns to the homeland security guy and says “they’re using some strange dialect.” Later the homeland guy turns to the translator and says “are you sure you know how to translate?” The translator replies, “I have a Master’s in Romantic Korean literature” to which the homeland guy replies “that’s good enough for me.”

So you know there’s nothing new in there, just some good old-fashioned white, hetero, liberal humor. In fact it’s very “Stuff that white people like.” You get weed, hot chicks, whores, a strange relationship with homosexuality (eg the “cockmeat sandwich” torture at Guantanamo as well as the choice of casting openly gay Neil Patrick Harris as a (hetero) sex maniac who likes to “rock out with the cock out.” Sounds like we’ve got a repressed/closeted scriptwriter.

What else? Not much. Keep your expectations low. Laugh hard, laugh honestly. You will enjoy the movie.

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