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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 145
Fresh: 107 | Rotten: 38

The likable leads and subversion of racial stereotypes elevate Harold and Kumar above the typical stoner comedy.

Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 8

The likable leads and subversion of racial stereotypes elevate Harold and Kumar above the typical stoner comedy.

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Directed by Danny Leiner, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle follows the life-changing (and mind-altering) journey of Korean-American investment banker Harold (John Cho) and Indian-American medical-school candidate Kumar (Kal Penn). Both underdogs, Harold and Kumar decide to spend what would have been an otherwise uneventful Friday night satisfying an oddly intense urge for White Castle hamburgers. However, finding a White Castle proves a highly difficult task, and the two friends wind up on an

R, 1 hr. 28 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

Directed By: Danny Leiner

Written By: Jonathan Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg

In Theaters: Jul 30, 2004 Wide

On DVD: Jan 4, 2005

Box Office:$18.2M

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Critic Reviews for Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

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A multilayered goof on ethnic stereotypes...

August 14, 2007 Comment

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Stretches the boundaries of offensiveness in ways that both make us laugh and make us think.

January 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

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Silliness is the movie's only ambition, but there's something mind-blowing about seeing a fratty comedy through two pairs of Asian-American eyes, particularly when those eyes belong to actors who were token minorities in other dumb comedies.

August 1, 2004 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

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A peppy, satisfying comedy that could soon become a minor classic.

July 30, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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Will seem a classic if you're stoned, and only slightly less funny if you're straight.

July 30, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

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This is one more 'youth movie' that'll put years on anyone over 25.

July 30, 2004 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Mike Clark

USA Today

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Extremely dumb and vulgar comedy; not for kids.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

You'll laugh, you'll laugh, and you'll laugh%u2014especially if you see the movie in the cannabis enhanced glaze that the filmmakers intend.

April 15, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

'This night is about the American dream,' Kumar promises, and you know what? It sort of is. [Blu-Ray]

August 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

The film is remarkably silly and often empty-headed, yet it leaves one pleasantly amused.... (Blu-ray Edition)

July 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...for all its juvenile shortcomings, there's a sweet and beguiling charm to the film.

July 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Politically correct Cheech and Chong

July 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Dan Jardine

Apollo Guide

A deserving, albeit minor classic, if only for being so bold as to describe Katie Holmes' breasts as being "the exact opposite" of the Holocaust.

May 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

...fares a whole lot better than the majority of its stoner-comedy brethren...

May 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

An over-the-top romp which rehashes lots of dumb drug jokes but breaks far enough away from the tried-and-true teen formula to earn a high mark even from this jaded critic.

April 11, 2008 Comment

Kam Williams

Bean Soup Times

a whacky, racially refreshing breather in Hollywood's white-dominated, politically over-correct bummer of a mainstream culture

August 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Cinema Writer

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Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

Go ahead, it's what you crave.

June 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly

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Thomas Delapa

Boulder Weekly Source: Boulder Weekly

While unabashedly unsophisticated, this flick is subtly smarter, more audacious and more finely tuned than other movies of its ilk...

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Warm, crazily inventive and sometimes hysterical...

April 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Empire Magazine

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The fact that a writer can create an entire 90 minute story, revolving around the fact that two guys just want a burger from white castle, is already a fantastic achievement in comedy. The lowbrow puns, the frantic situations that they happen to get themselves into, the poop and fart jokes that are actually hysterical,

January 13, 2010

KJ Proulx

Super Reviewer

HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE is a vulgar, gross stoner/road comedy that only pleases the stoned viewers who are watching it. It tells the story of (well, if you want it plain and simple, that is) an Indian-American and a Korean-American (stirring up a lot of racial issues inside and outside the film itself) who

August 12, 2011