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Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:21
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: The likable leads and subversion of racial stereotypes elevate Harold and Kumar above the typical stoner comedy.
Theatrical Release:Jul 30, 2004 Wide
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
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Reviews for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Top CriticStretches the boundaries of offensiveness in ways that both make us laugh and make us think.
01/15/05
Top CriticSilliness 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.
08/01/04
Top CriticA peppy, satisfying comedy that could soon become a minor classic.
07/30/04
Top CriticWill seem a classic if you're stoned, and only slightly less funny if you're straight.
07/30/04
Top CriticThis is one more 'youth movie' that'll put years on anyone over 25.
07/30/04
Top CriticIf 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
Top CriticHas enough laughs and misadventures to satisfy its built-in audience, but it won't win any converts.
07/30/04
Top CriticWhile 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
Top CriticThe most gut-bustingly funny movie so far this year.
07/30/04
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticThis gonzo ganja comedy is propelled more by sly charm, sharp wit and stinging social satire than by mere smoke jokes.
07/30/04
Top CriticPlays 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
Top CriticPerfectly paired, John Cho and Kal Penn take the stereotypes of the brilliant Asian and the genius Indian for a joyride.
07/30/04
Top CriticWhat's engaging about all this is that Penn and Cho are smart actors doing very dumb humor. Somehow the combination proves amusing.
07/30/04
Top CriticOne secret of fiction is the creation of unique characters who are precisely defined. The secret of comedy is the same, with the difference being that the characters must be obsessed with unwholesome but understandable human desires.
07/30/04
Top CriticThat 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 CriticIn 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
Top CriticIt does have one thing on its side: It's freakin' hilarious, man.
07/29/04
Top CriticAttacks 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
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