Poor Kal Penn, he keeps getting mistaken for a terrorist. First, there was 24, where — d’oh! — it turned out not to be a mistake, and he really was a terrorist. Then there’s this teaser trailer, below, for Harold and Kumar 2 (due in 2008), in which one-half of our favorite pair of New Jersey potheads gets racially profiled by an airplane passenger. (Question: Is making fun of terrorism funnier when you make fun of bigotry at the same time?) I know this is just a one-minute teaser, but it’s going to take more than that gag and the reappearance of a wild-eyed Neil Patrick Harris to convince me that it’s worth taking another long, strange trip with these jokers.
More promising is this clip for Walk Hard (Dec. 21), a delicious-looking parody of recent musical biopics. Fictional star Dewey Cox (the reliably goofy John C. Reilly) interacts hilariously with some real-life stars (Elvis, the Beatles) played by some well-disguised comedy pros, and with some real-life celebs playing themselves — Eddie Vedder and (WTF?) Patrick Duffy. I wanted to see more of Jenna Fischer, but Kristin Wiig looks like she’ll steal scenes in the stock role of Dewey’s first wife (you know, the one he discards on the way up because she doesn’t believe in him). Judd Apatow’s name in the writing credits certainly doesn’t hurt, and the music even sounds decent, in an homage-to-Johnny-Cash way. This clip has me not only eagerly anticipating the movie, but the DVD extras as well.
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JACK WHITE AS ELVIS!!!!!!!!
I was wondering the same thing. I had to watch the trailer twice to make sure that was Jack White.
Nah, White should play Johnny Cash.
extended “walk hard” clip here
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4yzjtnj8Y3U
H & K GO TO WHITE CASTLE is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. Sequels usually suck a**, but I am definitely looking forward to this. Besides, I feel obliged to support anything where the minorities are actually the stars and not the punchline of the jokes.
i’m extremely interested to see what sort of jokes they have cooked up for Neil Patrick Harris now that he’s out of the closet
More than being out, we’ve seen two seasons of anything goes, Barney on HIMYM. The shock of Doogie doing crazy stuff shouldn’t be a shock.
We saw both of these trailers during our showing of Superbad this weekend…and the audience laughed more at these trailers than we did at the movie…hmmmm…
Ugh, no one in our “Superbad” theatre laughed at the trailer for “Walk Hard”, it looked stupid. And how can you write an article mentioning Kal Penn without mentioning the travesty that’s gotten him a role on “House”? Ugh.
it may have only been 1 minute long, but i almost died when that guy said “north korea and al-qaeda working together.” hilarious!
Which one looks worse???? I can’t tell. Walk hard is painful to watch.
yeah the walk hard TRAILER isnt very good but i’m hopeful it’ll be good, its just such a great idea for a movie, and like i said before
JACK WHITE AS ELVIS!!!!
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