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Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
Overall Rating:2.4012
Avg Critic Score:2.3295

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Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Common Sense (James Rocchi) Common Sense (James Rocchi)
Stoner social satire is rude, crude, and funny. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Common Sense (James Rocchi)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Film Snobs (Stephen Himes) Film Snobs (Stephen Himes)
If you're really, really high, you might think that H&KEfGB suggests that we are only truly free when we transcend our own racial identities. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Film Snobs (Stephen Himes)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.) Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Overall, it's an enjoyable sequel, although not up to the admittedly high--heh--standards of the first installment. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell) Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
Hurwitz and Schlossberg aren't exactly subtle in making their case against government paranoia and repression, but they are funny most of the time. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.25 out of 4 stars for FilmStew.com (Brent Simon) FilmStew.com (Brent Simon)
Made for only $9 million, and released in the summer of 2004 the week after The Bourne Supremacy, as rib-nudging counter-programming to the seriousness of both The Manchurian Candidate and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, New Line's raunchy, pot-driven ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at FilmStew.com (Brent Simon)

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Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.20 out of 4 stars for Film School Rejects (Kevin Carr) Film School Rejects (Kevin Carr)
The core Harold and Kumar audience of stoners and slackers will enjoy the rude humor and drug references, but the rest of us clean and sober folks are going to be left cold. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Film School Rejects (Kevin Carr)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.20 out of 4 stars for EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy) EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Sequelitis Syndrome: The new film suffers from all the problems of a sequel: Its humor and situations are not as fresh, funny, or wild. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.20 out of 4 stars for E! Online (Leslie Gornstein) E! Online (Leslie Gornstein)
It was fresh the first time. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at E! Online (Leslie Gornstein)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.20 out of 4 stars for EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider) EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Like most comedy sequels, it is not as funny as its predecessor -- but, like most comedy sequels, that won't matter too much if you get stoned before you watch it. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice) Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
The jokes that actually work successfully in Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay are the same ones that worked in its predecessor ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for New York Post (Lou Lumenick) New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
I didn't laugh anywhere near as much at this far less fresh sequel - which is broader, more vulgar, more scattershot, more overtly political and a lot less funny than it sounds on paper. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means) Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
There's plenty about the Bush administration's War on Terror worthy of satire, but Harold & Kumar picks over a carcass that others have chewed over with much sharper teeth. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for MovieCrypt.com (Kevin A. Ranson) MovieCrypt.com (Kevin A. Ranson)
Looking for love just doesn't seem as satisfying as satisfying the munchies. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at MovieCrypt.com (Kevin A. Ranson)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for KyleSmithOnline.com (Kyle Smith) KyleSmithOnline.com (Kyle Smith)
There's a reason why Foreign Affairs has never done a theme issue about "Dude, Where's My Car?" ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at KyleSmithOnline.com (Kyle Smith)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke) Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Plays like desperate repackagings of the first movie's more successful set pieces -- with the accent on desperate and the freshness level down to zero. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Associated Press (David Germain) Associated Press (David Germain)
They're such lovable goofs that you can't help wishing their quest for White Castle fast food and their flight from Gitmo could live up to the sort of sharp satire these two bright boys deserve. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Associated Press (David Germain)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair) Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
...has been infused with an uncomfortably over-the-top sensibility that handily obliterates the easy-going feel of its predecessor... ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Reel Film Reviews (David Nusair)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty) Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)
The whole film feels easily distracted and apt to laugh at anything. But that's okay. So is its target audience. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Times (Mark Rahner) Seattle Times (Mark Rahner)
It's as if the filmmakers were doing something that impaired their concentration and made them lose focus on something they started. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Seattle Times (Mark Rahner)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle) WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)
They try very hard to re-create the magic and popularity of the first Harold & Kumar adventure, but you can't always capture lightning in a bottle twice. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman) TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
Far from a complete failure, but in trying so hard to up the ante the filmmakers have made a lesser, more rambling finished product. Simply isn't as satisfying this time around. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Filmcritic.com (Bill Gibron) Filmcritic.com (Bill Gibron)
During its slightly surreal scenes, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay crackles. At other times, it's the same old smoke out. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Filmcritic.com (Bill Gibron)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips) Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
You find yourself smiling at some of the bits, wincing through many, many others, and ultimately wondering if the pacing would've improved had either H or K developed a terrible cocaine habit. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman) Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
The film feels careless and calculated at once: careless in its assembly, calculated in an attempt to copy Castle. (But who could blame Hurwitz and Schlossberg? They have no other film credits.) ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Metromix.com (Matt Pais) Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
Chasing freedom's not as funny as chasing fast food. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Joe Neumaier) New York Daily News (Joe Neumaier)
While Penn and Cho remain casually cool (they're hipper than the fools who spout bigoted clichés), the movie forgets to stay true to their characters or to itself. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at New York Daily News (Joe Neumaier)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore) Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
In all its mock outrage and its daring shots at hypocrisy, bigotry and the government, Harold & Kumar, the characters and the movie, lose their subversive innocence. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Tucson Weekly (Bob Grimm) Tucson Weekly (Bob Grimm)
An unfortunate, sloppy sequel. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Tucson Weekly (Bob Grimm)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane) Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)
...unpleasant and mean-spirited... ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius) eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Falls into that classic sequel trap: do the same thing again, but do it bigger and louder... It's a big, noisy, unfunny rerun. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
Cho and Penn don't have the needed personality or comic identity to sustain a franchise and their non-drug humor is so crude and scatological that -- to say the least -- it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Slant Magazine (Nick Schager) Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
An amplification of scale and subject matter that isn't, alas, accompanied by an upgrade in humor. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Can Magazine (Fred Topel) Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
There are poop jokes and c*m shots but nothing as insightfully twisted as the diarrhea twins. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Scene-Stealers.com (Eric Melin) Scene-Stealers.com (Eric Melin)
It ends up coming off like an extended Carlos Mencia sketch, and it certainly can't justify the film's short 100-minute running time. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Scene-Stealers.com (Eric Melin)
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Washington Times (Christian Toto) Washington Times (Christian Toto)
Harold & Kumar should be thrown in Gitmo for starring in such an awful sequel. ...read the complete Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay movie review at Washington Times (Christian Toto)
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