Just as Mike Judge's Office Space has become an anthem for all us Gen X cubicle slaves, Harold and Kumar will resonate deeply with anyone who attended high school in the 1990s and at least saw a joint.
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07/29/04
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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.
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
A funny stoner buddy movie, with nods to those original multicultural high times guys, Cheech and Chong, and flashes of the kind of party-on comedy that Saturday Night Live slackers Wayne and Garth made most excellent.
07/29/04
Top CriticA celebration of the rights of all people from all races, creeds and beliefs to have equal access to the best-damned burger Americans can fry up!
07/29/04
“Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle” may have a better grasp of modern race relations than so-called “serious” films.
07/29/04
The script goes to acceptable lengths to make the duo more than the idiotic, giggling stoners we’d usually see.
07/29/04
If you want to laugh loud and long, go see it. But for heaven's sake, check your tender sensibilities at the door.
07/29/04
Smart, goofy and endearing, Cho and Penn make a terrific team, and the fact that they’re starring in their own movie suggests that, in the Hollywood comedy frat house, there's finally room for everyone.
07/28/04
It isn't just another dumb druggie flick that suggests the world begins and ends with getting high.
07/28/04
I don't know if it's a revolution, but it's a step in the right direction. Funny, too.
07/28/04
[Harold and Kumar] share a quality the overgrown adolescents in films like this are never allowed to possess: They're witty, focused, and highly aware.
07/28/04
Top CriticOne of those silly, rude, crude, buddy adventure movies that hits the right spot.
07/28/04
It doesn’t make any sense, but damn if it doesn’t pull it off in style.
07/28/04
[Cho and Penn] form an immediately likeable twosome with enough chemistry to carry this comedy ... past some obvious faults.
07/28/04
If told as a story by a guest at a party, “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” would undoubtedly end with the phrase: “I guess you had to be there.”
07/28/04
Has the coarse exterior of a typical 'stoner classic,' but also a prominent undercurrent that is sweet, clever, and even a little thoughtful.
07/27/04
Though too scattershot and uneven to be recommended without reservation, it has a loose, goofball charm that makes it a pleasant surprise and may earn it cult status.
07/27/04
Winds up a sweetly nonchalant and excellently unwhiny allegory of seeking and gaining entry to the Caucasian fortress that is present-day America, or at least nocturnal New Jersey.
07/27/04
Top Critic... an instant stoner classic.
07/26/04
Top CriticThis is a hilarious, fever-dream of a road-trip movie.
07/25/04
As unsatisfying as its titular fast food chain’s repulsive mini-burgers, Leiner’s film shoots only for scatological silliness.
07/25/04
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