Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

In spite of their dubiously short stay at the prison of the film’s title this multi-culti screwball buddy comedy, about stoner goofballs Harold and Kumar, properly roasts post 9/11 America with an irreverent vengeance. While on a flight to Amsterdam, Kumar (played by Kal Penn) gets mistaken for a terrorist with a bomb, and his mile high bong-smoking effort lands him and Harold (played by John Cho) in the Gitmo clink. An all-too-easy escape delivers them on a Florida shore from which they go on a cross-country road trip to Texas, where Kumar intends to ruin his ex-girlfriend’s wedding. There’s plenty of comic riffing on sex-fueled jokes that find their level with Neil Patrick Harris reprising his role from the first Harold and Kumar movie as a doped up sex addict who takes the boys to a brothel for some hapless results. Fast, cheap, and out-of-control "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" is just what America needs.

Rated R. 102 mins. (B) (Three Stars)