Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: Difference between revisions

''Escape'' was not as well liked as ''White Castle'' (compare its 53% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] to ''White Castle's'' 74%), thanks to [[Flanderization]] of the main characters, a reliance on gross-out humor, and far more [[Anvilicious]] message about not stereotyping others.

 

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=== '''This movie contains examples of:''' ===

* [[Creepy Basement]]: Harold and Kumar end up hiding in a [[Deep South|Texan couple's]] dark, dingy basement. Earlier the couple had been joking about keeping their deformed incest baby locked up in there, which doesn't help. {{spoiler|[[Double Subverted|Turns out they weren't joking.]]}}

* [[Dartboard of Hate]]: [[George W. Bush]] has one of these with a picture of Osama Bin Laden on it.

** Ron Fox, an evil white-supremacist government agent {{spoiler|falls out of an aeroplane ''without'' a parachute}} after 90 minutes of brutalizing and terrorizing ethnic minorities.

** Also, a Klansman pursuing Harold and Kumar trips and his burning torch gets tangled in his robes. It's not confirmed whether or not he dies.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Ron Fox.

* [[Race Tropes]]: Ron Fox tries to use these to get witnesses to talk, wasting [[Trademark Favorite Food|grape soda]] for a black guy and [[Greedy Jew|spilling a bag of coins]] for Jewish people. These tactics only serve to make people more affronted by his outright racism.

* [[Reality Subtext]]: The sight of Harold and Kumar causes Rob Corddry's character to rant about how "al-Qaeda and the North Koreans" must be teaming up. [[John Cho]]'s father actually was a refugee from what is now North Korea, who faced near-starvation while fleeing south.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The only reason Ron Fox's ''exceptional'' racism won't make you leave in disgust is just how earnest and over the top he is about it. [[Too Dumb to Live|That and he's as dumb as a fence post]].

'''Kumar''': So just because of the color of my skin, you assume that [[Sarcastic Confession|I have illegal drugs]] on me? }}

* [[Sweet Home Alabama]]: The movie has its fair share of negative [[Deep South]] stereotypes, most notably the Ku Klux Klan, but there is also a sophisticated, sympathetic Southern couple that helps Harold and Kumar hide from the government. The couple is still pretty stereotypical. They're an [[Brother-Sister Incest|incestuous]] couple with a deformed son.

* [[Three-Way Sex]]: Kumar fantasizes about this with his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|a giant bag of weed]].

* [[Toxic Friend Influence]]: Kumar. The film goes out of its way to point this out.