Harold and Kumar: High Alert

[Seraphfire]

That's the title of Harold and Kumar's sequel. Hehe, how fitting...

Looking forward to seeing this in 2008!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481536/board/flat/76543552

[bluemonq]

meh. the first one was overrated anyways.

[inthesky]

i only watched the first one because the movie i wanted to see was sold out. the next time i saw Kumar was in Superman Returns, weirdly enough. i guess i'm going to the movies in 2008 now...

[Adaon]

You should check out The Namesake, if you were looking on more recent Kal Penn sightings.

[tripostrophe]

haha awesome :)

[TB4000]

http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=22961

Trailer is now online.

[kitkatbee]

lol Korean thanks for the trailer!

[proazn]

urgh, i'd prefer the title to be "Harold and Kumar Go To Amsterdam".

Can't wait for the movie to come out though. March 2008 is too long to wait.

[kasia]

loved the first one. especially loved the fact that the two protagonists were asian-americans, all stereotypes were deliberate and obvious, the movie was entertaining, flowed well, jokes were up to date and not cheesy.

[Azn Retribution]

I've been waiting so long.
It needs to come out NOW.

[TB4000]

http://www.haroldandkumar.com/

Full trailer is now online. Looks pretty decent, I must confess. They don't have a problem taking jabs at anything this time around.

[didu]

seems good, this might just be the first movie that i will see in a cinema for the last 2 years.

[tommyhtown]

I can't wait 'till it comes out!

[AngryABCGirl]

http://www.haroldandkumar.com/

New trailer up! I can't wait!

[noname]

The title is now "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"
Some screenings took place in New York this week. Did anyone happen to see it there, or anywhere else?

[proazn]

The title is now "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"
Some screenings took place in New York this week. Did anyone happen to see it there, or anywhere else?

Harold and Kumar will be screened at the Asian Film Festival in the SF Bay Area on March 15.

[bmwhype]

wasnt it called harold and kumar go to burger king?

[Sunflare]

Any trailers? How is it? Worth seeing or total crap?

EDIT: Never mind. I think I should read the damn posts before I ask the dumbass questions. That would be a big help. :slaps self in face in utter stupidity:

[lagirl4music]

i love the trailer. not to be racist or anything but my most favorite part is in the plane where the lady imagines that kumar is a terrorist

[proazn]

i love the trailer. not to be racist or anything but my most favorite part is in the plane where the lady imagines that kumar is a terrorist

yep yep.. funny part in the trailer. This is just a classic example of how a person's ethnicity can be easily misinterpreted by another person. I need tickets to the H&K showing at the asian film festival, but tickets has been sold out - HELP!

[Arex]

Here's an L.A. Times article about race in the movie and Hollywood. Oddly, the printed version of the article which is the main story in the Calendar section is entitled "Off Color."

'Harold and Kumar' push the limits of multiculturalism (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-ethnic24apr24,1,4979913.story)

[DragonKnight]

Hehe, my gf and I are planning on watching it this weekend. Can't wait! :cool:

[Napoleon Chynamite]

It's that ongoing paradox minorities have to live with. On one hand you want to be able to be portrayed as a normal individual without having your race or ethnicity ever be an issue, but at the same time you don't want to encourage the idea that race doesn't matter.

That said, I'll probably go catch H&K this weekend.

[yoMAMA]

from the review, this sequel lives up to the expectations.

[Nidus]

Just caught Harold and kumar, it was one funny ass movie. Found a new interview from him from asianweek where he talks about politics and the new star trek movie.

http://www.asianweek.com/2008/04/24/can-john-cho-escape-from-harold-actor-talks-politics-matt-and-ben-syndrome-and-%e2%80%98star-trek%e2%80%99/

[j&j2]

Insightful article w/ good quotes from Cho and Penn.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/la-et-ethnic24apr24,1,2706715.story

Both films -- written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who also direct as a team this time out -- quite offhandedly make two characters with strong ethnic cultural identities into the leads, still an unusual move for a mainstream Hollywood movie. For all the talk of the remarkable schlubbiness of the leading men coming off the Apatow conveyor belt, they are still middle-class white guys.

"The theme in these movies is that Harold and Kumar are sort of beyond race," said Schlossberg. "They don't really care that much about their own identities; it's the people around them that sort of haven't gotten it yet."

"I feel like Hollywood is a little behind the curve usually in terms of what America is ready to accept from a cultural standpoint," said Hurwitz. "Filmgoers are a bit savvier than they are given credit for."

Both actors have always been particularly sensitive to the issues of racial representation. It goes back to even before they were doing the audition rounds earlier in their careers, to memories from childhood. Penn, 31 and from New Jersey, vividly recalled how the release of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," with a scene of an Indian feast, had an immediate effect.

"I remember going to school after the weekend that movie came out and no one wanted to sit next to me at lunch," said Penn. "They completely believed my peanut butter and jelly sandwich certainly had to contain monkey brains. Nobody would sit next to me for a week. Even though I was a kid, that was the first time I realized how seeing something in a film can really affect how you look at things."

It's a theme that Penn takes quite seriously. He's actually, believe it or not, currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, teaching courses in "Images of Asian Americans in the Media" and "Contemporary American Teen Films."

Cho, 35 and raised in Los Angeles, recalled his own disappointment at the Long Duk Dong character in "Sixteen Candles" and acknowledged that there can be concerns about the broader cultural meanings a specific role may have.

"It is a bit of a burden just thinking about it all the time," he said. "The point is to have fun in this job, and it makes it a little trickier sometimes. I do feel some amount of pressure, and with every job I've tried to steer clear of things that I feel would embarrass me as an Asian American.

"While I'm willing to make a fool of myself in a role, I certainly don't want to put on buckteeth and a cone-shaped hat and talk with an accent."

And there are still some people here who don't think media portrayals affect not only how others see Asian-Ams, but how AAs see themselves (esp. when they are young).

[SunWuKong]

watched this last night and i thought the first one was funnier. a lot of the humour was just way over the top to me and wasn't very funny. it went beyond exaggerating a point to make something funny.

[tommyhtown]

I like it better than the first one. I agreed that some were way over the top. And the appearance of emo-Harold cracked me up.

[Banana]

Are you kidding me?

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom still traumatizes me. To this day, I shy away from Indian food. Now, I'll eat it but it'll be accompanied with alot of reservation.

[SunWuKong]

I like it better than the first one. I agreed that some were way over the top. And the appearance of emo-Harold cracked me up.

yeah that was where i laughed the hardest. i wish they followed up with that.

[yoMAMA]

H&K2 did very well, grossed over $14 million, 2nd overall.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/

can't wait for the dvd! :biggrin: