In celebration of 420 and the upcoming release of its sequel, I re-watched Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, a movie that some critics have called new stoner classic. It is a classic buddy comedy, starring John Cho as Harold, a 2nd gen Korean nerdy investment banker, and Kal Penn as Kumar, a 2nd gen Indian who really doesn’t want to go to med school despite his family’s insistence.
After toking up, they decide what they want is those slider burgers from White Castle and they go searching for the famed and rare burger joints. In the process of getting the burgers, they come across a 2nd gen Korean students meeting/party at Princeton, they wind up meeting Neil Patrick Harris and Harold even goes to jail.
Directed by Danny Leiner, who gave us Dude, Where’s my Car?, he redeems himself as this movie is miles ahead of his previous efforts. Granted there are gross-out humor (such as a painful toilet sequence), cheap humors and wild inconsistencies, but you don’t watch this movie searching for a cinematic masterpiece. The movie is best enjoyed, perhaps, when you’re high as well, but even when you’re not, it is a very enjoyable team-comedy. If it doesn’t teach you any other lesson, you will at least learn that Korean and Indian descent Americans are just like everyone else: sex-crazed, looking for a good high and a good munch.
Rating: 75%
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