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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Release Date: July 30, 2004
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Danny Leiner
Screenwriter: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Anthony Anderson, Dan Bochart, Steve Braun, Brooke D'Orsay, Ethan Embry, Paula Garcés, Luis Guzmán, Neil Patrick Harris, Jon Hurwitz, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Kate Kelton, Jamie Kennedy, David Krumholtz, Bobby Lee, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Reynolds, Hayden Schlossberg, Siu Ta, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Dov Tiefenbach, Robert Tinkler, Fred Willard, Gary Anthony Williams
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong language, sexual content, drug use and some crude humor)
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Plot Summary: "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" follows two likeable underdogs who set out on a Friday night quest to satisfy their craving for White Castle hamburgers and end up on a mind-altering road trip of epic proportions.

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Lol!Atleast Kal Penn's role won't be worse than the one in VAN WILDER.

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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

By Michael Rechtshaffen


Bottom line: Overt product placement aside, this hard-to-resist buddy movie is destined to become a midsummer comedy sleeper. (Opens Friday, July 30)
LAS VEGAS -- If one were able to toss the "American Pie" trilogy, the John Hughes brat pack pictures and the "Cheech & Chong" screen oeuvre into a cultural blender and then press the pulse button a few times, the result would probably have the flavor and consistency of "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," a blissfully silly, character-driven road movie with impressive laugh-per-minute performance specs.

Screened at the CineVegas Film Festival (and shown a day later at the Los Angeles Film Festival), this inspired entry in the generally languid stoner comedy genre is a comparative breath of fresh, if herb-scented, air.

Effectively carried by a pair of relative newcomers, the New Line release should satisfy the cravings of laugh-starved young-adult audiences and will likely hang around well past Labor Day.

Meanwhile, the folks at White Castle would be wise to ensure their burger inventories can withstand an inevitable late-summer onslaught from copycat customers.

Making like a multicultural Bill and Ted, Harold Lee (John Cho), a socially reserved, somewhat-anal accountant, and his outspoken, would-be med student roommate, Kumar Patel (Kal Penn), are, ahem, chronic overachievers when it comes to partaking of one of their favorite weekend activities.

Overcome with a particularly insistent case of the munchies while watching a seductive White Castle commercial, they rise to the challenge and embark on a nocturnal quest across the backwoods of New Jersey in search of the cute little burgers.

But the road to fast-food riches is paved with considerable peril in the form of potentially rabid raccoons, escaped cheetahs, corrupt cops, a boil-infested tow-truck driver named Freakshow (Christopher Meloni) and even a horny Doogie Howser (a funny Neil Patrick Harris).

Working from a lively script by rewrite specialists Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg that manages to find a place for animation, puppetry and some light CGI, director Danny Leiner keeps it all chugging agreeably forward, while his cast, which also includes cameos from Fred Willard, Anthony Anderson and Ryan Reynolds, join in the goofiness.

But it's Indian-American Penn, who is a welcome burst of comic energy, and Korean-American Cho, as his hapless foil, who keep the proceedings anchored in a real-world reality too-seldom represented in contemporary comedies. It's nice to see characters who are usually relegated to stock, stereotypical supporting roles finally allowed to carry the entire picture.

That alone is almost enough to forgive director Leiner for "Dude, Where's My Car?"

Maybe not.

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
New Line
New Line Cinema presents in association with Senator International
a Senator International/Kingsgate production in association with Endgame Entertainment
A film by Danny Leiner
Credits:
Director: Danny Leiner
Screenwriters: Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg
Producers: Greg Shapiro, Nathan Kahane
Executive producers: J. David Brewington Jr., Luke Ryan, Joe Drake, Carsten Lorenz, Hanno Huth
Director of photography: Bruce Douglas Johnson
Production designer: Steve Rosenzweig
Editor: Jeff Betancourt
Music: David Kitay
Music supervisor: Dave Jordan
Casting: Cassandra Kulukundis.
Cast:
Kumar: Kal Penn
Harold: John Cho
Maria: Paula Garces
Himself: Neil Patrick Harris
Goldstein: David Krumholtz
Rosenberg: Eddie Kaye Thomas
Freakshow: Christopher Meloni
Male Nurse: Ryan Reynolds
Dr. Willoughby: Fred Willard
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 87 minutes

The trailer looks unfunny and gives the impression that this is just another stupid teen movie...

I saw the movie because I had no desire of watching M. Night's VILLAGE. This movie is really funny. There are bags of weed, boobs, freaks, a pot smoking cheetah and I was LMAO through the whole thing. Kal Penn totally rocked as the stoner. John Cho who was very impressive in Better Luck tommorow is hilarious as the uptight stoner. It won't win any oscars but its very enjoyable film.

If this movie makes some $$$ (I hope that it does) the sequel will be HAROLD AND KUMAR GOES TO AMSTERDAM.

I watched this movie because I did like Kal Penn in AMERICAN DESI and he does not disappoint here. For the genre it belongs to, i think it is an extremely witty and smart film (remember you have to understand that its a B-grade summer comedy)....I think it will recover all its investment and be the sleeper hit as predicted....it can be gross and vulgar and is a totally guy film so if you plan on going with your significant other (the guys that is), be prepared for your SO to be particularly miffed ! Other than that enjoy it...as I did !

Saw it yesterday, but only because I forgot The Bourne Supremacy and The Manchurian Candidate were also playing

It wasn't horrible, but it could have been better. I was hoping it would be more outrageous. My favorite scenes were with Neil Patrick Harris, the cheetah, and the weed fantasy. The cops were funny too.