![]() The Perez family (so numerous they arrived in a school bus) leave en masse for Midnight Mass, the package from Santa contains a giant spiff of holiday weed, Harold throws it out the window, it blows back inside and sets the perfect tree on fire, and the two lads have only a few hours to find a replacement tree in Manhattan or face dire consequences. Perez throws out Harold's gaudy artificial tree and replaces it with a perfect Douglas fir he has lovingly grown for 12 years. Perez ( Danny Trejo), who hates Mexicans. ![]() Kumar delivers it on Christmas Eve to Harold's suburban manse, loaded with Christmas decorations to impress his Mexican father-in-law Mr. Santa ( Patton Oswalt) delivers a package for Kumar at Kumar's apartment. Kumar has split up with Vanessa and lives in the ruins of a bachelor apartment. The plot: Harold (Cho) has drifted away from Kumar (Penn) and become a successful Wall Street trader, where his office is under assault by protestors. Or footage using the same style of blended motion capture and animation as in action films. In his third Harold & Kumar comedy, the former child star Neil Patrick Harris of Doogie Houser, MD fame (billed as playing himself) does a wild. What I wasn't expecting was a scene simulating Claymation. Although I saw it in 2-D, it was easy to tell the big 3-D moments, as in the giant phallus and gusts of smoke blown at the audience. One clue: It contains parodies of many film styles and genres. Like its predecessors by Cheech and Chong, it might as well have been. I have no idea if this movie was made stoned. Here the humor is intended to pound us over the head. Ethnic jokes are cutting-edge among slack-jawed doper comedies, but sometimes (as in the first and still funny "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle") they had touches of wit and insight. It's not that I was particularly offended it's that I didn't laugh very much. The rags-to-riches story is even richer in order to co-star in this movie, Kal Penn took a leave of absence as associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. We're not really melting in the Melting Pot if we're not making money from ethnic stereotyping. It's sort of inspiring, isn't it? Kal Penn, the son of immigrants from India, and John Cho, born in South Korea, find success in America as the stars of three big movies making jokes about Indians, Koreans, Chinese, blacks, Latinos and Jews.
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