The best comedic team since Abbott and Costello. Neil Patrick Harris completes the duo.

It took a decade, but another taboo has been broken: The flaccid penis has arrived in movies. After Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger simulated anal sex in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (but no oral sex – they are serious actors, after all!), Viggo Mortensen fought naked in EASTERN PROMISES, and WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY and FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL showed off the penis. The female movie star going topless is passé.

All hail the cinematic arrival of the circumcised penis!

With the comedy door now wide open, Harold & Kumar take full advantage of the male organ liberation movement as well as addressing ethnic profiling.

Next time you get ready to fly and have to take off your coat, sweater, belt, shoes, empty your pockets, take off your jewelry, pull out your laptop and DVD player, and go through a pat down, consider this: How about some effective profiling?

It’s good enough to catch drug dealers.

I travel all over the world, primarily in Muslim countries. I do not fear Muslims on planes. I fear obese people sitting next to me, and the sick and dying. While it’s not like I’m boarding Oceanic Flight 815, I do access the passengers in the waiting area: Will the world miss any of these people?  Who looks like its “Karma Payback Time”?

Our friends Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are off to Amsterdam but Kumar can’t wait to sit in a café smoking very strong, and legal, weed. He smuggles a baggy of pot and a bong onboard their flight. Quickly caught with the bong/bomb, the two are immediately sent to Guantanamo Bay, where giving the soldier-guards oral sex compliments water-boarding. As Harold and Kumar ready themselves for their Gitmo initiation, other detainees escape. With the cell door wide open, Harold and Kumar take off for the homeland, resplendent in orange jumpsuits.

Kumar’s ex-girlfriend is marrying the only guy with the right credentials to get them out of this terrorist misidentification mess – though smuggling pot aboard a plane is a crime – unless you are buddies with George W. 
  
On their trail is fanatic FBI agent Ron Fox (Rob Corddry) who is certain Harold and Kumar are terrorists. Kumar’s ex-girlfriend – yes, he actually had a girlfriend once – is getting married in Texas to the scion of a politically-connected family. On the way to ruin her wedding (Kumar’s intention), Harold and Kumar run into the third member of this comedic duo – Neil Patrick Harris. I don’t care about Neil’s coming out or his hit TV show. This is the recurring role NPH will be known for.  It wouldn’t, and shouldn’t, be Harold and Kumar without him.

Before crashing the wedding, they crash into wedding guest George W’s living room and hang out smoking reefer with the president. This is possibly the best PR the President will ever have – in fact, he should have taken the role himself.

While neither Cho or Penn have bothered signing up for acting classes (and it shows), they do have wonderful screen presences in these roles.  I especially like Penn, who has a struck dumb look that is completely charming. But in love and happily married?