Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)
73 %
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.
Runtime: 88 mins
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 abused by other workers and forced to do their jobs for... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Malin Akerman, David Krumholz
Director: Danny Leiner
Screenwriter: Jonathan Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Producer: Greg Shapiro, Nathan Kahane
Composer: David Kitay
Screenwriter: Jonathan Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Producer: Greg Shapiro, Nathan Kahane
Composer: David Kitay
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'This night is about the American dream,' Kumar promises, and you know what? It sort of is. [Blu-Ray]
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08/04/08
...for all its juvenile shortcomings, there's a sweet and beguiling charm to the film.
07/20/08
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.
05/02/08
...fares a whole lot better than the majority of its stoner-comedy brethren...
05/01/08
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.
04/11/08
Top Critic
a whacky, racially refreshing breather in Hollywood's white-dominated, politically over-correct bummer of a mainstream culture
08/24/06
While unabashedly unsophisticated, this flick is subtly smarter, more audacious and more finely tuned than other movies of its ilk...
05/26/06
Behind all the Farrelly-esque gross-out humour and Cheech & Chong-isms lies a sensitive little picture with a deftly handled anti-racism slant.
02/09/06
Frankly, if there isn't already another Harold and Kumar movie in the works, then there should be.
03/09/05
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.
03/07/05
There's an audience that will appreciate this, but they may struggle to see it through the smoke.
03/01/05
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