JamesG
11-04-2011, 06:27 PM
Movie Reviews: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
The third Harold & Kumar movie is in 3D — and that technology is sent up for laughs by the writers and stars, John Cho and Kal Penn in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.
Ty Burr in the Boston Globe writes:
“Leave it to a Harold & Kumar movie to expose modern 3D for the tawdry gimmick it is while understanding that’s at least half the enjoyment.”
At one point in the film, Harold asks, “Hasn’t the whole 3D thing jumped the shark by now?”
Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer answers that question this way:
“Yes, it has. But as deployed, 1950s-style, in this geek Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis romp with pot and peyote and ecstasy in place of Johnnie Walker, it taps the funnybone. The 3D jokes are reliably funny.”
Claudia Puig in USA Today observes:
“While it mocks 3D technology, it also makes relatively fresh use of it.”
Several critics note that the movie delivers gags as fast as any in the Airplane series.
“Not all the gags work,” writes Lou Lumenick in the New York Post, “but there are moments of brilliance.”
There are also enough ethnic gags to offend just about every minority.
Roger Ebert, who writes one of the few negative reviews of the movie, remarks, “It’s not that I was particularly offended; it’s that I didn’t laugh very much.”
-IMDB News
The third Harold & Kumar movie is in 3D — and that technology is sent up for laughs by the writers and stars, John Cho and Kal Penn in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.
Ty Burr in the Boston Globe writes:
“Leave it to a Harold & Kumar movie to expose modern 3D for the tawdry gimmick it is while understanding that’s at least half the enjoyment.”
At one point in the film, Harold asks, “Hasn’t the whole 3D thing jumped the shark by now?”
Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer answers that question this way:
“Yes, it has. But as deployed, 1950s-style, in this geek Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis romp with pot and peyote and ecstasy in place of Johnnie Walker, it taps the funnybone. The 3D jokes are reliably funny.”
Claudia Puig in USA Today observes:
“While it mocks 3D technology, it also makes relatively fresh use of it.”
Several critics note that the movie delivers gags as fast as any in the Airplane series.
“Not all the gags work,” writes Lou Lumenick in the New York Post, “but there are moments of brilliance.”
There are also enough ethnic gags to offend just about every minority.
Roger Ebert, who writes one of the few negative reviews of the movie, remarks, “It’s not that I was particularly offended; it’s that I didn’t laugh very much.”
-IMDB News