![]() The Airplane! guys used to be masters at this. Just ask the now sainted Marx Brothers, who got away with a lot more in their scruffy early freeforalls than after they’d been rebranded as a class act. Because silly comedies don’t need to be responsible, they’ve long been a gold mine of casual-or pseudocasual-social satire and topical gotchas. Something Hurwitz and Schlossberg are probably a mite too aware of for their own good is that they’re updating a great tradition. To which I can only say, Yeah, why didn’t you What’s the matter, don’t you love AmericaĮven if it were a lot more botched than it is, Escape from Guantanamo Bay would say more by definition about The Way We Live Now than Hollywood’s highminded Iraqwar flops. Why, I wonder: just because the black guy went on to confide that his real consolation was having a large penis Or the debauched celeb was the former Doogie Howser, M.D., with Neil Patrick Harris having a ball playing himself as a drugcrazed satyr Maybe it was the scene in which a pair of lissome Princeton coeds squealed their way through a farting contest called "Battle Shits." But I’m guessing that the overriding reason was that our protagonists-stressed KoreanAmerican numbers cruncher Harold (John Cho) and his roommate, reluctant IndianAmerican medschool candidate Kumar (Kal Penn)-had only one joy in life: weed. Movingly, in spite of everything, they end up achieving their dream.įunnily enough, though, Harold Kumar Go to White Castle didn’t play Sundance at all, much less win prizes for uplift. ![]() ![]() They’re attacked by skinheads and tossed in jail by bigoted cops, where one of the duo is newly inspired by a wise black man’s advocacy of nonviolence. ![]() The heroes are two idealistic AsianAmerican postadolescents who feel trapped by ethnic stereotyping and their families’ bourgeois expectations, all right As they struggle for fulfillment, they keep coming up against the facts of life in these United States, from whitecollar hypocrisy to Holy Rolling Christianity and celebrity privilege. So here’s an idea for a movie you know would pack ’em in at Sundance, collect a bunch of Independent Spirit Awards, and put the rest of us to sleep. ![]()
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