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Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
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Based on 82 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Jon Hurwitz
Hayden Schlossberg
Directed by: Danny Leiner
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 30, 2004
DVD: January 4, 2005
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Canada
Summary
RATING: R for strong language, sexual content, drug use and some crude humor
Starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Fred Willard, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Paula Garcés, and Christopher Meloni
In the great cinematic tradition of "Road Trip" and "Dude, Where's My Car?" comes Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, which follows two likeable underdogs who set out on a Friday night quest to satisfy their craving for White Castle hamburgers and end up on an epic journey of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling and a wild road trip as un-PC as it gets. (New Line Cinema)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
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. They make having a brain look hip.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Gleefully upends expectations and delivers an energetic comedy tracing two guys'all-night search for the perfect White Castle burger.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
A peppy, satisfying comedy that could soon become a minor classic
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Will seem a classic if you're stoned, and only slightly less funny if you're straight.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
You don't just root for Harold and Kumar to get the girl, get the weed, and, above all, get the burger you want to hang out with them while they' doing it, and see if they'e free next Friday night, too.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Penn's Kumar could become Jeff Spicoli for the generation of college kids who've never seen "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" but always seem to have a copy of "Dude, Where's My Car?" cued up at a moment's notice.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
I laughed often enough during the screening of Harold & Kumar that afterward I told Dann Gire, distinguished president of the Chicago Film Critics' Assn., that I thought maybe I should rent "Dude, Where's My Car?" and check it out.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
This stoner buddy movie is filled with raunchy, gross-out humor. It's immature, clunky and probably the best bit of groundbreaking social commentary we've seen in years.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
A blissfully silly, character-driven road movie with impressive laugh-per-minute performance specs.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
That 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.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
May have said more about race in America today than any other movie of last year.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Staff (Not Credited)
In their formidable quest for junk food, Harold and Kumar end up redefining what the all-American protagonists of Hollywood movies should look like - and prove this comedy is not quite as brain-dead as it originally appeared.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
The recent model for this kind of surreal jazz-riff comedy is Doug Liman's 1999 "Go," a neo-classic. But you know already from the director (Dude, Where's My Car?'s Danny Leiner) if this movie is for you. Leiner has cornered the recent market on low-rent farces.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Clearly, this unabashedly silly movie, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, is the work of people with a grasp of the stream-of-consciousness creativity that a few bong hits can impart.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
The chemistry between the two is as old as Abbott and Costello. Harold is the sensible worried one, and Kumar zany and reckless. The movie's funniest moments, set at Princeton University, caricature and then demolish the image of Asian-Americans as nerdy, sexless bookworms incapable of fun.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
It boldly subverts stereotypes and challenges conventional wisdom by presenting affable Korean and Indian antiheroes who are just as sex-crazed, irresponsible, mischief-prone, and chemically altered as their white counterparts.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Angel Cohn
The outlandish premise and greasy title may be a little hard to swallow, but Danny Leiner's proudly moronic film embraces its boneheadedness so cheerfully that its lowbrow charms are nearly irresistible.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
Plays 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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
Pretty standard stuff, mixing a few truly clever moments with facile drug humor and throwaway female characters.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The 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.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Terrific lead performances make this epic stoner comedy watchable but can't save it from flat direction.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
For the most part this reminded me of a hysterical passenger pushing random buttons in the cockpit of a plunging airplane.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The multicultural cast gives a shred of substance to what's otherwise a standard adolescent gross-out flick.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
Funnier when high -- what isn't? -- Harold and Kumar may also serve as the first infomercial for weed and burgers.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The twist of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, a laugh-out-loud if not-exactly-good stoner comedy, is that its heroes, an entry-level investment banker and a brainiac pre-med student, are not dimwits.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
The official R rating is for "strong language, sexual content, drug use and some crude humor," but the MPAA is just being polite. It's all crude.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 82 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Daniel V. gave it a9:
I absolutely love this movie, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The humor is abundant, fresh, and the things these two get into are simply classic. I watch it whenever I get the chance, and I just can't control my laughter.
I was barely interested enough to finish watching this self-indulgent movie. Not very funny, and so filled with stereotypes - especially odd for a movie that aims to reverse the Asian/Indian image. The one thing I did enjoy was Neil Patrick Harris' cameo.
Dean S. gave it a3:
If I was sixteen and hadn't seen these jokes before, I would have thought it was hysterical. Since I'm not I rarely cracked a smile.
Steven V. gave it a10:
I loves this movie cause this movie made me laugh so much.
Ryan M. gave it a10:
A generation-defining masterwork. It's a one-of-a-kind journey into the mind of the 21st century stoner, and perhaps the funniest film since the ball dropped in 2000.
Anthony S. gave it a10:
Great movie, kuumar reminds me of my best friend chris, they look alike.
Amanda gave it a10:
This movie was the funniest movie I have ever seen in my life and I loveee it!!
