“A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas” on IMDB
Comedy, 90 Minutes, 2011:
I entered into this with mixed feelings. Having adored the outlandish abandon of the first installment I looked forward to the second… and absolutely hated it. It felt forced and spiteful where the first was organic and hopeful. It just didn’t gel for me for whatever reason. I’m happy to announce that “A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas” is a fine return to form.
Drama, 146 Minutes, 2011
Before getting into the movie let me say: I had no idea what this was. My wife had read the book and demanded that we see it so… we did. But I asked her, “what’s this about?” She got a gleam in her eye and started, “Well, there’s this white woman that -” and I stopped her. Basically there’s only a few kind of movies that can be described with that phrase (and my wife isn’t even remotely interested in several of them). It’s like “This guy finds out he has a kid…” or “These kids find a map…” Even if you can’t say exactly what’s going to happen you know basically what’s going to happen.
Comedy, 90 Minutes, 2011
This strikes me as the independent film equivalent of the summer popcorn blockbuster. Take a movie like, say, “Pirates of the Caribbean.” It can be dismissed creatively as committee-generated pulp while still earning millions upon millions of dollars and a rabid fan-base. Here we have an independent movie that pushes all the right indie buttons – drama, humor and character – but simultaneously takes such a safe, predictable path that you’d swear it was pressed from a well-used mold.
Comedy, 83 Minutes, 2011
This was a really mixed bag. There’s a lot of laughs but a lot of them are too easy and cheap as hell. There are some fun performances and also some downright awful ones. The story rolls well for most of the movie then plummets to one of the worst endings I’ve ever seen.
Comedy, 102 Minutes, 2011
Like most sequels, if you like the first you’ll probably like this. Also like most sequels there’s a very good chance that you won’t like this as much.
Comedy, 102 Minutes, 2011
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a self-conscious, akward guy goes after an incredibly hot girl far outside his class (who, coincidentally, is also kind of a jerk). To accomplish this he recruits his hollywood-plain (read: incredibly hot with glasses) friend to help. Although he eventually gets the girl, something happens that makes him realize that his plain friend was what he really wanted all along. After a frenetic sequence where he has to chase after her to tell her that he loves her they kiss and a classic 80’s song plays loudly.
Comedy, 84 Minutes, 2011
This is one of those independent movies where every scene just screams that everybody had a hell of a lot of fun. You’ll recognize almost every actor from prime-time television (the good high-budget, well-written stuff, not the schlock). It really just seems, in the best of ways, like a bunch of talented friends got together on a long weekend and made a movie.
Comedy, 98 Minutes, 2011
There’s some funny shit here; quite a bit of it in fact. Ultimately the movie ended up falling flat for me however. Nothing specific really stands out; it’s just the same slow descent into unfunny plot-housekeeping that plagues the vast majority of modern comedies.
Comedy, 125 Minutes, 2011
Had a lot of fun with this. The characters were all likable and while admittedly exaggerated and a little single-dimensional all had an engaging, genuine core.
Action Comedy, 111 Minutes, 2008
This one kind of slipped through the cracks for me. It stands out as something that I should have watched a long time ago but somehow never got around to.
