Harold & Kumar 2 - Escape from Guantanamo

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Movie
German title Harold & Kumar 2 - Escape from Guantanamo
Original title Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jon Hurwitz
Hayden Schlossberg
script Jon Hurwitz
Hayden Schlossberg
production Nathan Kahane ,
Greg Shapiro
music George S. Clinton
camera Daryn Okada
cut Jeff Freeman
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Harold & Kumar

Successor  →
Harold & Kumar - Every year again

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Original title: Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay ) is a 2008 comedy film with John Cho and Kal Penn in the lead roles. Directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who also wrote the script. The film is a sequel to Harold & Kumar from 2004.

action

At the end of the first film, the Indian-born Kumar and his Asian-American friend Harold had decided to travel to Amsterdam after Harold's dream wife Maria . Now they make their way to the airport, where they meet Kumar's ex-girlfriend Vanessa and learn that she is getting married in a week in Texas . The groom is Colton, a buddy of Harold's who Kumar hates, and who has just started a position at the Department of Defense that he got because his father was in the same fraternity as George W. Bush .

On the plane, Kumar's self-developed smoke-free bong is mistaken for a bomb. They are overwhelmed by flight security attendants, the plane turns around, and Harold and Kumar are interned in Guantanamo Bay . They can soon escape from there, as the guards were overwhelmed by their cell neighbors during forced oral sex . On a Cuban refugee boat they get back to Miami in the USA and visit their friend Raza, who is currently holding a "bottomless" party. He can't help you but can lend you a car. They decide to make their way to Texas to see Colton, who had promised them at the airport that they could turn to him if they ever needed help. Ron Fox from the Ministry of Homeland Security is on their heels with his employees and a turbulent journey through the southern states of the USA begins for both of them : They meet a siblings living in incest and their one-eyed child locked in the basement, involuntarily take a ku -Klux Klan -meeting part and accompany Neil Patrick Harris , who takes her hitchhiking in a brothel - from there, however, have to flee because Harris a prostitute after sex a branding missed with his initials and then the brothel boss Sally is shot down.

When Harold and Kumar finally made it to Texas, Colton does not give them the promised help, instead he betrays them to Ron Fox, who puts them on a plane that is supposed to take them back to Guantanamo. However, they manage to overpower their guards and jump off with a parachute. The two end up in George W. Bush's Texas home and hide with him from Dick Cheney in Bush's guest house. There they make friends with the president and are invited by him to smoke weed. With Bush's help, they manage to blow up Vanessa's wedding. Vanessa then accompanies them to Amsterdam. After Harold found Maria, the four of them spend some time together in Amsterdam.

background

  • The human rights organization Amnesty International had called on its members in the USA to distribute leaflets with the title "Guantanamo is no joke!" In front of the cinemas in the USA which read: "You have" Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay “… But what does it really mean to be one of the 775 or so people illegally detained in Guantanamo by the US government? Imagine you were sold to Guantanamo or kidnapped in the middle of the street, accused and denied a fair trial, tortured, prevented from seeing your family, denied the right to challenge your internment, and in a cell 22 hours a day for over 6 hours Stuck for years ... but never convicted or even charged with a crime. - Call on the US government to prosecute the prisoners and give them a fair trial or release. "
  • Production costs were estimated at around $ 12 million. The film grossed around $ 43 million in theaters around the world, the majority of it (around $ 38 million) in the United States and only around $ 5 million in all other countries.
  • It was released in theaters in the USA on April 25, 2008. In Germany, the film did not come into theaters and was released directly on DVD on October 17, 2008.

Reviews

The film was rated less well by American critics than its predecessor and scored 57 out of 100 points by Metacritic . James Berardinelli wrote that the film delivers what fans expected. The critic of the media service of the evangelical organization Focus on the Family advised against the film, among other things because, according to his count, the protagonists violate “at least 9 of the 10 commandments ” and about 125 F-words and 50 S-words can be heard.

The lexicon of international film found the film to be a "[p] olitically emphatically incorrect comedy as the successor to a lucrative cinema film, which gives its swipes in all directions, but does not reveal any convincing satirical potential".

More movies

In July 2008, another feature film in the "Harold & Kumar" series was announced. It bears the original title Harold & Kumar - All Years Again and was released in American cinemas on November 4, 2011. The film did not come into cinemas in Germany, but was released on DVD on November 23, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What would Guantánamo really be like for Harold & Kumar? ( Memento from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Financial data on boxofficemojo.com
  3. ↑ Harold & Kumar 2 at Metacritic.com
  4. ↑ Review at reelviews, accessed on August 8, 2008
  5. ↑ Review ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at pluggedinonline.com, accessed on August 8, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pluggedinonline.com
  6. ↑ Harold & Kumar 2 - Escape from Guantanamo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ 'Harold & Kumar' continuation ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in variety @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com