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Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is both a hilarious political commentary and a nod to all the reasons why it's great to be a male college student.

From tons of weed to President Bush to President Bush smoking tons of weed, this sequel to Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle follows the continuing adventures and mishaps of the beloved title characters.

Like the original, Escape from Guantanamo Bay relies heavily on an absurd number of misfortunes for laughs. Where the first is silly through and through, directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg overlaid heavily political satire to go along with the base comedy this time around.

The movie kicks off when Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) decide to go to Amsterdam to rendezvous with Harold's major crush, Maria. Things go very awry when they are mistaken for terrorists and are sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. From there, as the film's tagline suggests, instead of hitting the joint, they run from the joint.

Despite their fugitive status, Harold and Kumar still manage to find plenty of time to get high. Being the college-student oriented comedy it is, the film features not only cumulus clouds of weed being smoked, but other vices such as mushrooms and drunk driving (both done by Neil Patrick Harris in his cameo, without which this movie wouldn't be a proper sequel).

Following the precedent of the first film and flicks such as Eurotrip, this movie features plenty of gratuitous nudity. Whereas a lot of directors only put in topless girls, Hurwitz and Schlossberg satisfy the presumably male audience beyond expectations by featuring bottomless girls too (front and back). That's not to say this film is sexist, however. There are two ways to accidentally see a pants-less male; audience members should expect the worse way.

Beyond that though, this film does take a semi-serious look at questions of bigotry, racial profiling and post 9/11 America. The fact that it debuted at number two for the weekend illustrates that audiences are able to view these topics without (serious) offense.