A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)
When Harold's (John Cho) new father in law (Danny Trejo) brings him the traditional family Christmas tree for their annual get together, best friend Kumar (Kal Penn) ends up destroying it in a ball of flame. Too scared to tell Trejo the duo set out on Christmas Eve to replace the tree - A near impossible task.
Occasionally very funny, occasionally very silly, A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas survives just about on the likability of Cho and Penn and the scrapes they get into. It's amiable enough and there's the right amount of sweet sentimentality to disguise the fact the sweetness is dipped in cocaine, weed and bodily fluids.
And then there's the obligatory cameo from Neil Patrick Harris playing an obnoxious version of himself, despite being shot dead outside a Texan whorehouse seven years previous.
Funniest scene - Harold with his cock frozen to a pole when tied up by Russian mobsters.
Not essential Christmas viewing but a bit of fun every few years.
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