A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: November 4, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanNov 3, 2011
Merrily outrageous, over-the-top fun. Read full review
90
SalonAndrew O'HehirNov 3, 2011
Full of imaginative, outrageous and egregiously insulting 3-D gags. Read full review
90
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerNov 3, 2011
N.P.H, as he's often called in these films, does indeed return, singing and dancing. And talking dirty. He, that stoned baby and a stunning riff on the tongue-stuck-to-a-pole scene in "A Christmas Story" will, for fans of this franchise, make this a blissful holiday season indeed. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinNov 2, 2011
The filmmakers throw everything at the audience, literally and metaphorically, and the results are exhilarating rather than exhausting. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickNov 4, 2011
There are moments of brilliance, like a claymation sequence that manages to simultaneously send up '60s holiday cartoons and "Ghostbusters'' (with Frosty the Snowman instead of Marshmallow Man). Read full review
75
Slant MagazineNick SchagerNov 3, 2011
Overflows with inspired craziness, doling out an all-night odyssey of sex-centric crises, death-defying conflicts, and Neal Patrick Harris-centered insanity with snowballing momentum, as bits pile on top of bits with intoxicating verve. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrNov 3, 2011
Because the "Harold & Kumar'' universe seesaws so delicately between the subversively smart and the ineffably stupid, even the lamest jokes get a witty spin - and even the cleverest ideas can turn into groaners. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallNov 3, 2011
Has something for everyone, if everyone is looking for young nuns taking showers, a department store Santa dealing weed, a coked-up infant crawling on the ceiling and Danny Trejo as the father-in-law-to-be from Hell. I didn't think I was looking for that but found it. And heaven help me, it wasn't bad. Read full review
70
SlateDana StevensNov 6, 2011
I just hope Neil Patrick Harris meant what he said when he took his leave of the boys in his Radio City dressing room: "See you in the fourth one." Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesNov 3, 2011
This time the quest plot involves Asian-American pals Harold and Kumar chasing after a Christmas tree to replace one they've accidentally burned down, but that's only an excuse for the relentless barrage of tasteless gags, most of them damned funny. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 6, 2011
If there's a complaint to be made, it's that the humor could be less scattershot. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Dave McGinnNov 3, 2011
The laughs may not be as strong as they were the first time, and the sense of discovering something fantastically illicit may have faded to mellow, familiar charms that come with the occasional giggle fit, but that's life as a stoner comedy. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 3, 2011
The humor is even more wildly inappropriate, with a running joke about getting a baby stoned on pot, coke and ecstasy, and a scene inspired by the famous incident in "A Christmas Story" where the kid gets his tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia PuigNov 3, 2011
Harold and Kumar's Christmas movie is silly, if uneven, fun. While it mocks 3-D technology, it also makes relatively fresh use of it and qualifies as the most ambitious of the trio of films. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyNov 3, 2011
Think of it as"Airplane"! with controlled substances. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNov 2, 2011
I have no idea if this movie was made stoned. Like its predecessors by Cheech and Chong, it might as well have been. Read full review
60
EmpireJames WhiteDec 5, 2011
This never reaches the heights of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer or The Snowman in terms of classic seasonal fare. But there are a lot of laughs lurking within the shiny 3D wrapping and snow-covered silliness. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichNov 8, 2011
This is no family-friendly "Peanuts" special. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineJames RocchiNov 3, 2011
Has enough laughs, enough good will and enough squirrely strangeness to make you hope that we get to hold on for one more film. Read full review
60
VarietyJustin ChangNov 3, 2011
This vulgar romp is a generally harmless, heartwarming affair, a cinematic Christmas cookie almost sweet and flaky enough to cover the fact that it's laced with hash, cocaine and assorted bodily fluids, blood included. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 3, 2011
What you would expect from the third film in an unlikely franchise: less of the same. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttNov 3, 2011
A mildly diverting naughty comedy, lacking the pure comic nastiness of "Bad Santa" or the sheer audacity of "Up in Smoke." Read full review
55
MovielineStephanie ZacharekNov 3, 2011
It's an extravaganza of bad taste that in the end just tastes bad. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesNov 9, 2011
A grinning but toothless comedy, this Christmas-themed outing pales in inventiveness compared to the original, which brought sweet, silly anarchy to its one-thing-leads-to-another plotting. Read full review
50
TimeRichard CorlissNov 3, 2011
Never to be mistaken for a Christmas classic - or even, strictly speaking, a good movie - H&K 3D Xmas obeys one other solid comedy rule: that after things are broken, they must be repaired and restored. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNov 3, 2011
The first "H&K" caught people off-guard with its canny idiocy and zigzagging, picaresque treasure hunt premise. By now, there's no catching anyone off-guard with these two, except by way of the most off-color and off-putting means possible. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreNov 2, 2011
The charm has aged right out of this silly stoner franchise. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliNov 3, 2011
Let us recall that the first film was, in its blithely vulgar way, hilarious. And let us demand a moratorium on coked-out-baby jokes, which seriously kill the buzz. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 3, 2011
We're getting more of the same, but less of the impact, like weed from a bad dealer. Read full review
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