A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 2011

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Seriously, someday you guys are going to sober up, catch this on video and wonder what gave you the giggles all those White Castle runs ago. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Harold & Kumar is all about Cho and Penn, who make the doofus duo into likable, harmless, upbeat characters who happen to be blasted a good deal of the time. 3D Christmas is proudly ridiculous stuff. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: A fourth Harold & Kumar? Who knows. But the third one finally wears down the disapproval of reluctant viewers with its cheerful demeanor and a late heart transplant. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Leave it to a "Harold & Kumar'' movie to expose modern 3-D for the tawdry gimmick it is while understanding that's at least half the enjoyment. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: The makers of the comedy fully understand that 3D is a gimmick much overused these days. And understanding that, they overuse it themselves in such a way as to cannily comment on the cliched nature of the gimmick... Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: Not only did I laugh, I was finally convinced that the film's heart, such as it is, was in the right place. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: If the sight of a baby covered in powdered cocaine offends you, you are an idiot for having gone to a Harold and Kumar movie. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: It contains the mother of all blunts, which, wouldn't ya know, burns down the Christmas tree that Harold's glowering father-in-law grew from a sapling. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Harold and Kumar's Christmas movie is silly, if uneven, fun. While it mocks 3-D technology, it also makes relatively fresh use of it and qualifies as the most ambitious of the trio of films. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: The filmmakers throw everything at the audience, literally and metaphorically, and the results are exhilarating rather than exhausting. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas" is what you would expect from the third film in an unlikely franchise: less of the same. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: [A] relentless barrage of tasteless gags, most of them damned funny. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The 3-D only makes the general not-funniness that much closer. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: In its shaggy, pleasure-bombed, '80s-meets-2011 way, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is a deft and generous comedy... Read more

William Goss, Film.com: The resulting hodge-podge of low-brow gags and winking humor is surprisingly spirited, and has the distinct advantage of not being as immediately dated as half of the humor in Guantanamo already is. Read more

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Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: A mildly diverting naughty comedy, lacking the pure comic nastiness of Bad Santa or the sheer audacity of Up in Smoke. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Man, it's like hilarious, right? Except, um, no, it's not. It's really, really not. Read more

Ian Buckwalter, NPR: By embracing the inherent silliness of what's still a gimmick at heart, the filmmakers manage to use 3D far more effectively than most other films in the fad's current revival. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Goes out of its way to offend virtually everyone, including Mexicans, Jews, African- Americans and especially evangelical Christians. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Two cheers for Harold & Kumar 3D. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If there's a complaint to be made, it's that the humor could be less scattershot. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Of course it's offensive and crude. It's also hilarious at times. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's not that I was particularly offended; it's that I didn't laugh very much. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: H&K are past their sell-by date. Way past. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's pretty much one ridiculous set-piece after another, and you absolutely don't need to be wasted to enjoy them. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: This third film in the Harold & Kumar franchise is inordinately jacked up with visual effects and peppy holiday music, but nothing can disguise the fact that this series has run out of steam. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: This third movie, a proudly unambitious buddy comedy, brings the franchise back to home turf, both geographically and thematically. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This film will stuff your stocking with profane, perverse, politically incorrect glee. Read more

Dave McGinn, Globe and Mail: The laughs may not be as strong as they were the first time, and the sense of discovering something fantastically illicit may have faded to mellow, familiar charms that come with the occasional giggle fit, but that's life as a stoner comedy. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: 3D Christmas pushes the envelope of tastelessness while maintaining a cheery holiday glow. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: For all its pretensions to bad taste, this is surprisingly heartwarming festive fare. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Neil Patrick Harris makes a quip that he'll see the guys in the fourth feature. Let's put a stop to that notion right now. That's all I want for Christmas, dudes. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: By now, Cho and Penn have got their Asian-American Abbott-and-Costello routine down so cold, they're a pleasure to spend time with even if the proceedings are less than inspired. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: The third installment still reads as angry, but the ire comes across as self-loathing, the filmmakers unable to mask their cynicism about their own project. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: While not as funny as the original, 2004's "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," it's still a modest improvement over the 2008 sequel, "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay." Read more