Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo

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But I'm getting ahead of myself: First, Harold and Kumar aredetained in, and sneak out of, Guantánamo Bay , after a mix-up involving a smokeless bong that Kumar has smuggledonto their flight. A devious, boneheaded fed, Ron Fox (RobCorddry), sets out to recapture them. Somewhere along the way NeilPatrick Harris, reprising the role he played in the first picture(that of himself), shows up and, after nibbling too many 'shroomsfrom a baggie, has a close encounter with a glowing white unicorn.
There's much more, including a Klan rally that's really just anexcuse for a beer blast, but the crazy patchwork that makes up"Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" works best if you don'tknow what's coming next. Hurwitz and Schlossberg do an almostmiraculous job of sustaining, and linking, the most improbablegags: Just when you think the movie has pooped itself out, it comesrolling back with some wayward giggle you couldn't have predicted.And like its predecessor, "Escape" both sends up stereotypes andrevels in them. At one point Harold and Kumar's stoner buddiesRosenberg and Goldstein, played by Eddie Kaye Thomas and DavidKrumholz (the former sporting a nice-Jewish-boy yarmulke, thelatter an "I [heart] Smegma" T-shirt and a crocheted Rasta beanie),are dragged into Fox's lair for questioning; he tries to get themto talk by showering them with gold coins spilled from a pouch.They keep mum -- but after they're out of danger, they glance ateach other and proceed to scoop up the coins. "Escape" is sogood-natured that it can get away with a silly little scene capperlike that.
The movie's generosity extends to our wily, untrustworthy presidenthimself (played by James Adomian), who gets a surprise visit fromour heroes. The George W. that Hurwitz and Schlossberg give usisn't so much a sympathetic figure as a shimmering, impossiblefantasy: If only the most terrifying U.S. president in history (I,for one, think he trumps even Ronald Reagan) would take a toke andchill out, he'd recognize his hubris and greed for what they are.Or maybe not. But Hurwitz and Schlossberg do give W. the movie'smost hopeful line: "You don't have to believe in your government tobe a good American. You just have to believe in your country." Like"Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" before it, "Harold & KumarEscape From Guantanamo Bay" embraces America's capacity for decencyand kindness. The possibility that we could actually be that great country isn't just a pipe dream. Only sometimes youneed a pipe to truly believe in it.