Harold and Kumar's trip to find White Castle burgers back in 2004 was hilariously sharp.  The current Harold and Kumar are the Cheech and Chong of the new age.  It's hard for sequels to meet the standard of the original so don't expect the same wit.  Then you won't be disappointed in all the pot jokes and lame racist exploitations.  My rating:  $5.50 (1.-9.).

John Cho is Harold Lee and Kal Penn is Kumar Patel, very American boys in minority bodies which tags them for racial profiling.  In the first outing, Harold was uptight but naive.  Kumar was brilliant, rich, and wanting to be neither.   This round has Harold as the smart conservative dragged into trouble by Kumar whose a true nitwit.  Really, the writers gave Kumar no character.  His only redemption is that, at the end, he makes a commitment to the woman he loves. 

A brief opening gives us the reason for the guys taking a trip to Amsterdam.  The comedy (if you can call it that) of errors starts on the plane when Kumar's revolutionary smokeless bong is taken for a bomb.  An already paranoid, elderly, white, conservative woman yells terrorist when she sees Kumar lighting it in the lavatory with the door open.  "Oh, no, this is just a bong", he explains.   Reaction:  "It's a bomb, it's a bomb, he said bomb!!". 

They end up at the hands of the most exaggerated example of a bureaucratic idiot with no boundaries played with flair by Rob Corddry ('Semi-Pro'/'Blades of Glory').  Next stop, Guantanamo Bay in 5x5 cages shared with goats, straw on the floor, real 'terrorists' all around, and Army personnel whose torture dejour is the cockmeat sandwich ---- I'll leave it to your imagination.  They escape expeditiously.  Cuban boat folks give them a ride to Miami.  They meet an old friend with money who helps them get to Texas where they want to ask for help from Kumar's old girlfriend's fiance.  Daneel Harris (Rachel on 'One Tree Hill') plays Kumar's soulmate, Vanessa.  Eric Winter is her micromanaging fiance, Colton, whose dad is in politics.  Colton is also an a--. 

The majority of the movie is the boys' road trip.  But I'll tell you the funniest stuff is the 15 minutes with Neil Patrick Harris.  Otherwise, you get alot of marijuana, racists jokes and situations (the KKK for example), full frontal nudity of both sexes, and a pretty good section on southern inbreeding.  Jon Reep and Missi Pyle play Raymus and Raylene who are married siblings with their cycloptic son in the basement.  It's funnier than it sounds.  Another funny scene is when Corddry's character, Ron Fox, is 'interrogating' the boys' parents.  "You Islamic terrorists come into this country... blah, blah," by Fox.   Kumar's dad, "I'm not Islamic, I'm Indian".  Fox,  "OK there chief...".  A translator is told to ask Harold's parents questions in Korean.  The parents (in clear, unaccented English), "We've been American citizens for 40 years.  I am offended by this whole process".   The translator turns to Fox, "I can't understand a word they're saying.  It must be some obscure dialect.  But I think I heard something about being on the offensive".  Yeah, it's humorous but not side-splitting.

George Bush's double has a long scene.  He really only looks like Bush in profile, but we get the idea.  There are quite a few cameos.  They're mostly brief but do have some comedic value. 

Writers of the original Harold and Kumar adventure, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, decided to direct this one themselves.  Maybe not such a good idea.  As in many a male fantasy movie these days, the beautiful girl gives up money and power for the 'fun' guy.  She loves to smoke pot, party, act kooky, and fulfill every sexual fantasy.   

The rating is 'R' and young kids do NOT need to be seeing all the genitalia.  A scene with a deer being slaughtered is one no child should be shown, either.  The run time is 100 minutes.