This is one more 'youth movie' that'll put years on anyone over 25.
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07/30/04
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)
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Reviews Counted:143
Fresh:105
Rotten:38
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: The likable leads and subversion of racial stereotypes elevate Harold and Kumar above the typical stoner comedy.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $18,225,165
Synopsis: Following up his hit DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? writer-director Danny Leiner has come up with the riotous road-trip comedy HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE. Harold (John Cho) has graduated college and... [More]
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Malin Akerman
Director: Danny Leiner
Reviews for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
61 - 80 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe outlandish premise and greasy title may be a little hard to swallow, but Danny Leiner's proudly moronic film embraces its boneheadedness so cheerfully that its lowbrow charms are nearly irresistible.
07/30/04
If it's possible for a movie to be sly and full-on raunchy at the same time, Danny Leiner's p.o.v.-shifting stoner-buddy comedy is it.
07/30/04
The rare funny scenes are dominated by predictable sex or drug jokes.
07/30/04
It's a delightful surprise that Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is so hilarious for pretty much all the reasons it should be so predictably brainless.
07/30/04
Has enough laughs and misadventures to satisfy its built-in audience, but it won't win any converts.
07/30/04
This is Dude, Where's My Script?
07/30/04
It leaves you hungry -- for a better movie.
07/30/04
A little more disturbing than it intends to be, and in the amateurish hands of director Danny Leiner (Dude, Where's My Car) not as funny as it might have been.
07/30/04
Crude, tasteless, sophomoric and crass. It is also, sometimes, funny.
07/30/04
All too often, the movie piles on 'shock' comedy without the hidden art that makes shock palatable as comedy.
07/30/04
While Harold & Kumar isn't quite a low-brow revelation on the scale of Clerks, it is one of film history's more inspired examples of off-color Jerseyana.
07/30/04
A slacker tale that balances the gross-out gags and idiotic drug humor with some sublimely silly nonsense.
07/30/04
The most gut-bustingly funny movie so far this year.
07/30/04
The laugh ratio in this run-on of skits is pretty low, at least to the unaltered mind of one who's seen enough of these films and eaten enough White Castle burgers to last a lifetime.
07/30/04
Whoever thought that one of the best times at the movies this year would feature a shot of Doogie Howser snorting cocaine out of the small of a woman’s back?
07/30/04
What makes Harold And Kumar so good is their demented selves -- you'll love the characters.
07/30/04
When the 90 minutes are up, you'll likely wonder why you laughed so hard and so often at something so silly.
07/30/04
This gonzo ganja comedy is propelled more by sly charm, sharp wit and stinging social satire than by mere smoke jokes.
07/30/04
Plays it a little too safe and hackneyed with the comedy, but the characters and the talented actors who play them are a refreshing change of pace that make the movie feel like a minor buddy-comedy revolution.
07/30/04
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