I have not watched either of the first two movies, but I reckon there must be some reason they are making a third one. I do find it mildly amusing that a Christmas stoner comedy is going to be coming out in 3D – yet nothing in the below trailer made me laugh out loud necessarily.
I do find myself wanting to see every part of this movie that has Neil Patrick Harris in it though. He’s dope. As for Kal Penn, this seems to mean that his political days in the Obama administration are at an end.
Has anyone in the third row caught these movies? Are they simply lowbrow stoner humor at its worst or is there more to them than I’ve always assumed?
Well, the first scene in the first movie has a pretty damn clever take on how these movies usually play out, and how Harold and Kumar are going to play things differently….I was a fan, although the film is far from perfect, it was a pretty solid entry in that genre, for doing something different, racially!
The NPH stuff isn’t as great as everyone makes it out to be.
I’m only going on what I see of NPH in this trailer, where he seems to be playing a version of himself through his Barney character on How I Met Your Mother. I’m not familiar with his role in the other movies.
I normally don’t see comedies in theaters, but they sold me on this one. It’s like Scrooged on meth.
Not only have I seen the previous 2 entries, I love them both though the first is much better than the second. This looks nothing like I expected – I think IT jumped the shark – but there are always a few classic scenes in these so I’ll see it. Most likely in the second run theatre.
I’ve seen the first film and have to concede it’s pretty freaking hilarious. I didn’t get the super love for NPH from that film, but I do love that he crops up everywhere now in beautifully bizarre meta ways.
How many of you watch How I Met Your Mother? I generally hate the traditional laugh-track laden sitcom, but I find this is one that both my girlfriend and I can watch together and enjoy and NPH plays a large part of that (although moreso Jason Segal).
Dan and I watch most of our TV together but neither of us could get into HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. We also didn’t start from the beginning which may be a problem. Still, it’s not one we watch. The last comedy we watched with any consistency was King of Queens.
Oh wait. We watch Big Bang Theory. Forgot that one as its currently off the air. And does The Guild count?
Love the tagline (Christmas comes prematurely – meta considering all the X-mas movies always come out in September/Oct. now – or Popper Penguins in summer – but it also works as a crude double entendre) , and for some reason the Avatar quip totally works, even though it should be lame. Kind of the story of H&K is that their movies shouldn’t be good, but are, somehow…
Umm, Popper’s Penguins isn’t a Christmas film.
Also, Christmas films come out on Thanksgiving, then hold through the holidays. That’s been pretty consistent for years.
PP isn’t literally a Xmas film, but it’s Christmas-y enough in spirit. I probably shouldn’t have used it as an example.
Most of the films you cite shouldn’t be used in your examples.