The first film was surprisingly popular with audiences and even more surprisingly popular with critics, who found that making the main characters minorities in an otherwise unambitious druggie comedy gave the interactions as the two stoned college students stumbled toward the fabled little square burgers a new freshness, even an edgy, satiric quality. Harold John Cho and Kumar Kal Penn depart for Amsterdam, where Harold hopes to see the girl of his dreams even though he does not know her last name or where she is staying and Kumar hopes to enjoy legal marijuana. But on the plane, Kumar lights up, using a smokeless bong he invented for the occasion, and a passenger assumes he is a terrorist. Just as they readjust their expectations, there is another twist. They also have a run-in with the KKK, who think they are Mexicans. No one seems to know or care what their ethnic backgrounds really are. Cheerfully offensive, cheekily raunchy, happily outrageous, and often just plain disgusting, the movie avoids the usual sophomore slump by ramping up the political jabs while keeping it all unpretentious and moving quickly.


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But that was Penn walking around naked in his apartment in the original film. That can be blasphemy and heresay to those who hold the presidency in high regard, but on the screen it is a very funny scene. And he is right. The sequel is rated R for "strong crude language and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language and drug use. Scott's colleague at the Times , Stephen Holden called the same film "a politically savvy universe where the title characters
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