IGN.com|AskMen.com|Rotten Tomatoes|GameSpy|FilePlanet|TeamXbox|CheatsCodesGuides|GameStats|Direct2Drive|Green Pixels
RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Learn More About Rotten Tomatoes
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • The Vine
  • Forums
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches by subscribing to our Google Subscribed Links profile.
 
Movies / On DVD / Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Email to a Friend
  • Add to List
  • Bookmark and Share
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
  • Visit Official Site External Icon

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
73 %
Tomatometer

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted: 142

Fresh: 104

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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong language, sexual content, drug use and some crude humor

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Comedies

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 is now working at a cubicle, where he is... 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 is now working at a cubicle, where he is abused by other workers and forced to do their jobs for them. Kumar (Kal Penn) is expected to go to medical school to follow in the footsteps of his father and brother, but he'd rather spend his time partying. The entire film takes place in one night, as wild Kumar is determined to get a sack of burgers at White Castle, even though his more staid roommate would prefer to stay home and finish a project for his officemates. While Kumar seeks fun and adventure, lusting after nearly every woman he meets, Harold dreams only of Maria (Paula Garces), the woman down the hall whom he likes but is too afraid to talk to. Harold & Kumar's excellent adventure includes an outrageous bathroom scene in a college; a cop who takes his job way too seriously; a group of extreme, rad dudes who harass Harold, Kumar, and a convenience store manager; LAW & ORDER: SVU's Chris Meloni as an incredibly disgusting possible psycho; and Neil Patrick Harris playing himself, making fun of his Doogie Howser image. In addition to plenty of raunchy--and very funny--references to sex, drugs, and rock & roll, Leiner also takes on stereotypes and the meaning of love. [More]

Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Malin Akerman

Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Malin Akerman, David Krumholz, Paula Garces, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Siu Ta, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Christopher Meloni, Gary Anthony Williams, Bobbi Lee, Fred Willard, Steve Braun, Ethan Embry, Luis Guzman, Jamie Kennedy

Director: Danny Leiner

Director: Danny Leiner
Screenwriter: Jonathan Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Producer: Greg Shapiro, Nathan Kahane
Composer: David Kitay
Studio: New Line Cinema

[See More Credits]

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
  • Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
    >
1 of 1

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Get This Movie

  • Buy DVD
 
 
 
 
Release:

Jan 4, 2005

[DVD Details]
 
 

DVD Features:

  • Region (unknown)
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Surround - 5.1 English
  • Dolby Surround Stereo 2.0 English

Additional Release Material:

  • Commentaries
  • Featurette
  • Deleted Scenes

Reviews for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >> >|
Arrange By: Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/18/08
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
08/04/08
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
07/20/08
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
Ratings Image

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.

Full Review Source: Projection Booth | comment Comment
05/02/08
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
05/01/08
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
Ratings Image

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.

Full Review Source: Bean Soup Times | comment Comment
04/11/08
Kam Williams
Bean Soup Times
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
12/27/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
Ratings Image

A multilayered goof on ethnic stereotypes...

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
08/14/07
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
10/30/06
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: Perihelion Journal | comment Comment
08/24/06
Jay Antani
Perihelion Journal
Ratings Image

Go ahead, it's what you crave.

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
06/23/06
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
Ratings Image

Warm, crazily inventive and sometimes hysterical...

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine
Ratings Image

Behind all the Farrelly-esque gross-out humour and Cheech & Chong-isms lies a sensitive little picture with a deftly handled anti-racism slant.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Derek Adams
Time Out
Ratings Image

It's all as serious as a White Castle slider.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/17/06
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ratings Image

...this film is dreadful! Horrible! Terrible! Aaaarrggghhh!

Full Review Source: www.kcactive.com | comment 2 Comments
07/25/05
Uri Lessing
www.kcactive.com
Ratings Image

Funny and brave; it's tradition with a refreshing new twist.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
04/15/05
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
04/02/05
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
Ratings Image

Frankly, if there isn't already another Harold and Kumar movie in the works, then there should be.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
03/09/05
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
Ratings Image

Will never become a teen classic, to be remembered lovingly as the film that shaped your teenage years but one thing's for sure: it's very funny and wonderfully dumb.

Full Review Source: FilmFocus | comment Comment
03/07/05
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >> >|
all

Latest News for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

July 25, 2008: Mandate Greenlights Harold and Kumar 3 Opens in new window
They've gone to White Castle and escaped from Guantanamo Bay, but they aren't done yet: there's a Harold and Kumar 3 in the works. More...

April 24, 2008: Box Office Guru Preview: Odd Couples Invade Multiplexes
Two new buddy comedies enter the marketplace during the final weekend of the spring box office hoping to cash in on what business is left in the last week before Iron Man flies... More...

October 12, 2007: Star Trek XI Finds Its Scotty, Sulu
J.J. Abrams' Starfleet roster is quickly filling up. Hot on the heels of this week's news that Eric Bana has signed on to play the heavy in Star Trek XI, The Hollywood... More...

August 09, 2007: Neil Patrick Harris Still Ladies Man in Harold and Kumar 2
One of the funniest jokes in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was Neil Patrick Harris playing Neil Patrick Harris. Snorting cocaine off a stripper's breasts, he played up the... More...

See More Topics...

Related Forums for Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

White people should sue the film makers for defimation.
by: Alextron 8/28


THE spammer - NO mercy!
Refill your bongs, H & K III is on the drawing boards ...
by: THE spammer - NO mercy! 7/27


THE spammer - NO mercy!
Refill your bongs, H & K III is on the drawing boards ...
by: THE spammer - NO mercy! 7/27


rap song @ 1 hr in the movie
by: psykotrol 2/16


Why did this movie do so badly in theaters?
by: shadowp 7/14/07
See All

More DVDs

Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
ROTTEN: 1 48% Smart People
FRESH: 2 89% Kung Fu Panda
FRESH: 3 61% Journey to the Center …
FRESH: 4 67% The Incredible Hulk
FRESH: 5 76% Indiana Jones and the …

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
FRESH: 96 96% WALL-E
FRESH: 83 83% Tropic Thunder
FRESH: 63 63% Sisterhood of the Trav…
FRESH: 93 93% Encounters At the End …
FRESH: 88 88% Gonzo: The Life and Wo…

More New Releases…

What’s Hot On RT

Star Trek TV Trailer

Star Trek TV Trailer

Live long and watch our exclusive video!

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

Five favorite films with the Hellboy director. ...

Dance Flick Trailer

Dance Flick Trailer

The latest spoof from the Wayans bros.

Twilight Guide

Twilight Guide

Meet the characters of the vampire romance.

More Info

RT To Go

Get this widget! Movie Reviews

Around The Network

  • Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle at IGN
  • Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle at AskMen
 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | ModCenter | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2008, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.