A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas : Movie Review


A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is the best 3D stoner Christmas movie ever! Kal Penn and John Cho return with almost everybody else you can remember in this third installment of the Harold and Kumar series. It starts off right away with a Christmas carol and gets right into the vulgar comedy you expect from this R-rated franchise. Even before the opening title hits the screen, they’re already puffing 3D smoke into the laughing audience’s faces thanks to some “Winter Wonderweed”. It’s great. I didn’t like the 2nd movie but this one may be even better than the original.


The movie doesn’t shy away from how ridiculous it is. It shamelessly pushes 3D TVs and gimmicky exploits while pleasing Harold & Kumar fans with an actual storyline. While the movie slows down at some points, it quickly amps right back up to epic laughs and increasingly ludicrous scenes. It keeps the same formula from the past two films with a few montages and cut scenes in different film formats. They had some Sin City-style and claymation sh*t going on. The script is actually pretty smart as it hints at some played-out holiday scenarios and then takes you on a totally different tangent. But as Guantanamo Bay went overboard in my opinion, this one matured into a well conceived comedy.

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Author : Matthew Fong