A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas: Why It's the Perfect Holiday Movie for Adults

The two make their way to Harold's house to put up the tree, but end up being kidnapped by two of Katsov's men, and are saved by Wafflebot. After Harold accidentally shoots Santa Claus in the head, Kumar gives him emergency surgery. In exchange for saving his life, Santa agrees to fly them back home in his sleigh, and reveals that he sent the package to reunite the friends. Harold arrives home to encounter Mr. Perez, who is angered when he discovers his Christmas tree is gone. Harold finally stands up to him, explaining that he may not be the perfect son-in-law, but he is the perfect guy for Maria. Mr. Perez says that he always knew Harold was a nice guy, he just wanted to make sure that he had "cojones" before accepting him into his family. Harold and Kumar rekindle their friendship, Kumar and Vanessa rekindle their romance, and Kumar tells Vanessa that he will re-take the exams to become a doctor and give up weed for the sake of their child, however, Vanessa advises him to break the latter, promising to give him her urine for another drug test. Maria discovers that she is pregnant on Christmas morning and that Santa has left a replacement tree in their lounge. Harold decides to smoke weed again, and he and Kumar share a joint for the first time in years. Santa flies overhead, smoking a bong, wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, saying "It's not that I was particularly offended; it's that I didn't laugh very much."[14]Justin Chang of Variety wrote: "This vulgar romp is a generally harmless, heartwarming affair, a cinematic Christmas cookie almost sweet and flaky enough to cover the fact that it's laced with hash, cocaine and assorted bodily fluids, blood included."[15]Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter called it "A mildly diverting naughty comedy, lacking the pure comic nastiness of Bad Santa or the sheer audacity of Up in Smoke."[16]

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It's not that I was particularly offended; it's that I didn't laugh very much. Ethnic jokes are cutting-edge among slack-jawed doper comedies, but sometimes (as in the first and still funny "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle") they had touches of wit and insight. Here the humor is intended to pound us over the head.

Six years have elapsed since Guantanamo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold's doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold's father-in-law's beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree, once again stumbling into trouble at every single turn.

Is been six years since the events at Guantanamo Bay. Harold and Kumar haven't seen each other much since then and they live very different lives. Harold, a successful business man married to Maria and living in a nice house in the suburbs. Kumar is still a stoner slacker living in the old apartment they once shared. A few days before Christmas a package arrives to the apartment addressed to Harold so Kumar travels to give it to him and makes the mistake of burning down Maria's father's prized Christmas tree. Now it's up to the boys to go on one more adventure to find the perfect Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.

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Happy Saturday, folks. I'm writing to you this week surrounded by a mountain of used facial tissue (that's right, I'm not endorsing Kleenex on the site without some sort of kick back...wait, dang it). Cold season has officially set in which means I'm on a daily regimen of Dayquil (which I have no problem endorsing), warm tea, and self-pity. In case you're a longtime reader of the "Top 5" and you're wondering to yourself, "Wasn't Jason just complaining about the summer heat?", the answer is yes. Out of the 52 yearly weeks, I'm generally not complaining about the weather for approximately 2 or 3 of them. It's sad, I know.In this week's "Top 5" you can find our video interviews with the cast of A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, press conferences with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and more from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 junket, the red band trailer for Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum's 21 Jump Street, a sit-down with the great Albert Brooks, and our coverage to date of this year's American Film Market. Find a brief recap and link to each after the jump.1. A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS Video InterviewsIt looks like I'm going to have to make room in my annual Christmas-themed comedy lineup. Traditionally, Elf, Christmas Vacation, Just Friends, and Jingle All the Way (okay, not really) are a mainstay for me and mine around the holiday season. Based on everything I've heard about A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, it could soon make the cut. If you've already seen the pic and loved it as much as Matt did or if you're as hopeful as I am, then you may want to check out our video interviews with stars Kal Penn and John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, and Thomas Lennon.2. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1 Press Junket CoverageLike it or not, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 is hitting theaters in a few weeks and it's most likely going to make a bazillion dollars give or take. Rather than fret over whether or not the film's merits actually warrant that type of success and popularity, I recommend taking the approach I adopted sometime around New Moon's release and just be happy that we're one installment closer to this whole thing being a distant memory. All pessimism aside, in my never-ending quest to not be known as a "hater", I want to encourage anyone who is legitimately looking forward to Breaking Dawn to check out our junket coverage featuring press conferences with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, author Stephanie Meyer, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, and producer Wyck Godfrey (we also have another interview with Godfrey here).3. Red Band Trailer for 21 JUMP STREETIn the name of full disclosure, I have to say that I've never been a huge fan of Channing Tatum's work (an admission that I'm sure will rock the actor to the core). In my defense, all of that was before I witnessed him, in full park cop attire, threaten to beat a man's genitals off. Will the final product be full of low-brow, potty humor? Probably. I don't care, though, because this red band trailer for 21 Jump Street is pretty great.4. Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER and MoreActor/writer/director Albert Brooks had an excellent career before he ever thought about taking on the role of Bernie Rose in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 crime drama Drive. It just so happens that his take on the cutthroat Rose has helped bring his stellar resume to light for a whole new generation of audiences who may have otherwise never considered revisiting his work in Lost in America, Broadcast News (for which he received his one and only Oscar nomination to date), or Defending Your Life just to name a few. Whether you're a longtime fan of Brooks or you're just wanting to learn more about the guy who played Bernie Rose to a tee, I suggest checking out Steve's interview with Brooks from earlier in the week.5. American Film Market 2011 CoverageIf at any point this week you found yourself wondering, "Where are all of these new movie images and synopses coming from?", the answer to that question is the American Film Market currently being held in beautiful Santa Monica. The market runs from November 2nd-9th so be on the lookout for even more images and synopses to pop up in the coming days. In the meantime, you can click here to check out all of our coverage of the event and get up to date on anything you may have missed.

SUBSTANCE USE - A mall Santa has a trunk-load of bags filled with hashish and marijuana marked as Red-Eyed Reindeer and similar names, a man waves a bag of crack in front of a friend who fidgets and gets down on his knees to beg for it, gallon-sized bags of cocaine are tossed around a party, a man and his baby find a baggie of what looks like rock candy and we hear it is methamphetamine (both dad and baby eat some of it and the baby giggles, screams, laughs, itches, and runs so fast we cannot see her except a red blur from her sleeper outfit and the dad seems unaffected), we see plastic bags of drugs (cocaine, crack, hashish, marijuana, morphine and methamphetamines) throughout the film, a man lights a large marijuana cigarette while sitting in a car with a baby and the baby becomes intoxicated (she giggles and babbles very fast), we see two marijuana cigarettes smoked by two men at different times, an ornate wooden box reveals a 10-inch marijuana cigarette that a man lights and smokes until another man throws it out the window and says he quit smoking altogether, drug bongs and pipes are shown in use several times, a man charges up to a mall Santa and sits on his lap (he whispers that he needs stuff, i.e. drugs), we see a mall Santa wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a marijuana leaf remove plastic bags of drugs and two pipes from his vehicle's trunk, three men smoke hashish while blowing clouds into the audience, a cloud of smoke becomes a wreath full of marijuana leaves, a man takes drugs home and uses a large bong three times to smoke them and makes large smoke clouds, a man says that he needs to stay home ."..so I can smoke these drugs and get high," we see Santa Claus in his sleigh and facing the audience while smoking marijuana from a large candy-cane striped bong and smiling, a man smokes crack from a small metal pipe and puffs a little smoke, the closing credits include large clouds of smoke (presumably marijuana smoke as leaves from the plant appear joined together as large snowflakes falling), a boy drugs eggnog that he gives to two men and they pass out, we see people (adults, middle school and high school kids) snort cocaine, adults snort cocaine and one sneezes in a pile of it as another man brings in his 18-month-old baby (a cloud of cocaine covers everything and everyone in the room and the baby rubs it into her gums, she giggles loudly and screams and scratches her itching face throughout the rest of the film and at one point, crawls around fast on the ceiling), and two gunmen come into a party and begin shooting handguns that break bags of cocaine and spray the powder in the air. A large house party includes people from ages approximately 10 to adult holding cups of beer or drinking from beer bottles and cups as well as champagne glasses and glasses of wine, a boy about 12 to 14 years old drinks from a beer cup a few times and teens that could be under 18 drink beer and wine, two boys of about 10 and 12 to 14 years old challenge two adult men to a Beer Pong game (we do not see the entire game, but we see the last thrown ball and the adults win), heaven is shown as having a long white bar with many bottles of liquor on the back bar, and a crumpled beer can is shown by a man's alarm clock. 2ff7e9595c