What follows is a satirical odyssey through the American landscape. After a daring escape from the prison camp, the pair treks through the Deep South, encountering everything from a high-society bottomless party to a group of friendly "nerds" who help them on their way.
Picking up immediately after the first film, Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are on a flight to Amsterdam to escape the drama (and a certain hungry raccoon). But when Kumar tries to light his new "homemade contraption" (a giant bong made from a water bottle) in the airplane bathroom, security mistakes it for a bomb. Harold Amp- Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay -2008
The film even dares to reference the infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner. It is a blistering indictment of the Bush administration’s foreign policy, delivered by actors pretending to smoke a bong made out of a giant carrot. What follows is a satirical odyssey through the
Kal Penn, of course, would later work for the actual Obama administration. John Cho would become a dramatic leading man. But for one brief, glorious moment in 2008, they were just two Americans trying to get to a brothel, accidentally exposing the rot of the War on Terror. But when Kumar tries to light his new