The original Harold and Kumar movie, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, took a typical “man on a mission” movie and put a really unique spin on it by:
1) Making the “mission” an otherwise conceivably easy goal (i.e. getting the delicious White Castle burgers).
2) Casting two non-white actors in the lead, which helped put some unexpected social commentary on race.
Of course, any chance of the movie being anything more than a side-splitting stoner comedy ended with the film’s climax when they smoked pot and rode a cheetah. Other than that, the film’s crowning achievement is probably the resurrection of Neil Patrick Harris‘ career.
So several years later we now have a trailer for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, and we’re in stoner overdrive. We got Santa, Jesus, a not-gay Neil Patrick Harris, very cheesy 3D effects (with considerable eye winking about how cheesy they are), and of course, pot and penis jokes. Now I’m not saying it doesn’t look funny, but we’ve come quite a long way from the genius simplicity of two dudes wanting some sliders. Perhaps a Christmas film wasn’t the way to go, dudes…
Of course, the film stars the titular duo, played by John Cho and Kal Penn and is set for a November 4 release. Check out the trailer below from Yahoo! and tell us what YOU think in the comments:
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