Just when we thought the stoner comedy was a hazy relic of the past, along comes a new farce that has every hallmark of having been written while under the influence.
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07/29/04
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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
A distinct entry in the pantheon of stoner comedies; the “what the hell?” moments are so insanely conceived that they’re often really funny.
07/29/04
That Cho and Penn are such likable actors and are so funny in their roles earns the movie more slack than it probably deserves and prevents it from being just another gross-out comedy.
07/29/04
Top CriticGoes for cheap and easy laughs way too frequently.
07/29/04
Its very unambitiousness gives the film moments that almost approach charm. That said, it's still mostly just extremely dumb and vulgar.
07/29/04
A movie that is funny far more often than it flops, and one that – more importantly – challenges the Myth of the American Melting Pot.
07/29/04
Harold and Kumar just need to go, period!
07/29/04
H&K has a lot to say about smoking pot and the silliness of its illegality...a “Marijuana Kills” public service commercial...is a stroke of satiric genius.
07/29/04
In those rare instances when it's not being a dumb comedy, Harold and Kumar is a rather crafty satire of racial stereotypes (which, it must be said, traffics in a few stereotypes of its own).
07/29/04
The multicultural cast gives a shred of substance to what's otherwise a standard adolescent gross-out flick.
07/29/04
an epic pothead movie with laughs and smarts
07/29/04
It does have one thing on its side: It's freakin' hilarious, man.
07/29/04
Attacks of hunger and indigestion, comic hallucinations and episodes of flat-out insensibility are scrambled together on this goofy roller coaster ride of dope.
07/29/04
Top CriticSweetly silly.
07/29/04
The jokes aren't exactly smokin', but there are enough high points to make this a gratifying pot comedy.
07/29/04
It always takes an unexpected route. Often unexpectedly stupid, yes. But there's also something weirdly original about Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg's script.
07/29/04
There are at least three very funny things in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and the stuff in between isn't bad.
07/29/04
In their formidable quest for junk food, Harold and Kumar end up redefining what the all-American protagonists of Hollywood movies should look like -- and prove this comedy is not quite as brain-dead as it originally appeared.
07/29/04
At road's end, Harold and Kumar smells very similar to the shrine of its title, which is great before you bite in and way less appetizing after you've sobered up.
07/29/04
A laugh-out-loud if not-exactly-good stoner comedy.
07/29/04
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