A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS Pre-Release

Nights of laughter and merriment shared with loved ones by the hearth. Gentle snowfall and moonlit sleigh rides. Mistletoe and holly, and trees a'twinkle with light

These were the Christmases of my youth, now lost to the inevitable slog of aging and getting old that is life. With each passing year, I do my best to psyche myself up for the holiday season , but my ability to find joy in these simple comforts seems with time greatly diminished

I love decorating my Christmas tree, but now with my ornament collection numbering well into the hundreds, and the cost of ever more X-Mas lights every December, I can't help but feel some degree of weariness and dread over the whole affair

When you're a kid, Christmas is automatically happy. When you're out on your own, it's kind of up to you to find the holidays jolly

It is on that note I state I am looking forward with great pleasure and anticipation to A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas

I feel like, of all the comedy sequels ever made, this one has potential - real potential - to be something more than a cheap cash in.. to be something special. My thoughts on 3D are well known, but  for some to worry a film like AVH+K3DX would use the technology merely as a gimmick is a concern I can fully understand

Having said that, I think maybe, just maybe, that isn't how things will be this time

To quote Jon Hamm: 

I think AVH+K3DX, if they handle the material with delicacy and care, could be a holiday film to be long remembered. Through it's risqué humor and drug fun, it might hold in it's frames the power to in each of us enkindle that long ago joy of holiday cheer

The movie will have singing, and dancing, and even claymation sequences, and so after decades of CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS and similarly vile exercises in crass X-Mas exploitation, I think we may at long last have a movie worthy of what the Yuletide season at its best can be 

This could be one for the ages, and I invite you to look forward with me to the November 4th release, when we'll all get a chance to see for ourselves if Harold and Kumar were able to pull off their holiday hat trick and bow out with dignity and grace after a second comedy sequel, never having worn out their welcome

Cheers! 

If I had one complaint, it would simply be that November 4th is not a terribly christmassy date, coming more than a month before X-Mas, and less than a week after Halloween

Perhaps the date was forced due to the availability of 3D screens, I don't know. It does seem endemic of the broader christmas creep, where decorations and ad campaigns all begin to ramp up way before it's actually time to bust out the advent calendar 

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Originally Posted by Dave Jarvie 

I loved the first, liked the second. here's hoping it doesn't continue its downward trajectory

I really enjoyed the first one (I've gone back to rewatch it several times over the years), and liked the second one though I felt it was much less cohesive than the first. I have a soft spot in my heart for ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY though because when I met Neil Patrick Harris, I complimented him on STARSHIP TROOPERS, which is exactly what Rob Corddry did in the film : P

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Originally Posted by The Dark Shape 

Saw it in January and liked it more than the first two.

How did you see this already? In January, no less? Were the effects finished? Was it in 3D? Can you talk about it in any detail without spoiling things?

PS I wish they'd gone for a warmer, hand illustrated style for the posters. Like DREW STRUZAN'S MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL poster, or like something inspired by Tasha Tudor or Jan Brett's lovely X-Mas scenes. The one we got is OK, but I just feel it could have used a classier technique than photoshop collage

CHUD review out.. it's looking good!