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Movie Overview
Cast
• John Cho
• Kal Penn
• Neil Patrick Harris
Director
• Danny Leiner
MPAA Rating
R - for strong language, sexual content, drug use and some crude humor
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)

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OFCS Rating: 74% Fresh
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"Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is the latest multicultural variant of the lowbrow buddy comedy in which the heroes just want to get high and laid."  Blogcritics.org  Alan Dale

7/10
"Director Danny Leiner has now elevated the stoner comedy to its highest peak..."  Movie Gazette  Anton Bitel

C
"Features quite possibly the worst, most unfunny scene of the 2004 film year."  FilmJerk.com  Brian Orndorf

"Repeatedly, as per road-movie formula, Harold and Kumar come to expect sex and/or druggy delirium, only to be disappointed."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

79/100
"A movie that is funny far more often than it flops, and one that – more importantly – challenges the Myth of the American Melting Pot."  Apollo Guide  Dan Jardine

79/100
"A celebration of the rights of all people from all races, creeds and beliefs to have equal access to the best-damned burger Americans can fry up! "  Cinemania  Dan Jardine

3/5
"That the movie is dumb goes without saying. But is it funny? You betcha."  eFilmCritic.com  David Cornelius

2/4
"...the movie has delivery that often overshadows the punch lines, and it's not very accessible."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

3/4
"...fares a whole lot better than the majority of its stoner-comedy brethren..."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

B
"It's all as serious as a White Castle slider."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2.5/4
"Its unforced mixture of the crass with the sweet may not be the likeliest of combinations, but it is a decidedly beguiling one, all the same."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

B-
"I will tell you without compunction that I laughed many times during the film, and I will add that 90 percent of those laughs were at things I cannot repeat here."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

B
"Has the coarse exterior of a typical 'stoner classic,' but also a prominent undercurrent that is sweet, clever, and even a little thoughtful."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

B-
"Though too scattershot and uneven to be recommended without reservation, it has a loose, goofball charm that makes it a pleasant surprise and may earn it cult status."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

3.5/4
"pulls off the nearly impossible in subverting racial stereotypes by constantly evoking them"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

3/5
"This buddy pot comedy's blunted charm lacks the clarity to make it soar as high as its protagonists."  Netflix  James Rocchi

3.5/4
"a whacky, racially refreshing breather in Hollywood's white-dominated, politically over-correct bummer of a mainstream culture"  Perihelion Journal  Jay Antani

8/10
"Funny and brave; it's tradition with a refreshing new twist."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

7/10
"...all of which add up to nothing in terms of plot, but plenty in terms of entertainment value, laughs and fun."  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

60/100
"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."  FilmFocus  Joe Utichi

3.5/4
"Made me laugh loud and often as much if not more than any other movie I’ve seen this year."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

B+
"Whoever thought that one of the best times at the movies this year would feature a shot of Doogie Howser snorting cocaine out of the small of a woman’s back? "  FilmStew.com  Larry Carroll

B+
"an epic pothead movie with laughs and smarts"  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

3/4
"What's impressive about the jokes is how smart so many of them are"  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

"[S]tarts out gross... and descends into the utterly moronic."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

3/4
"An empowering idea is woven with great subtlety into a series of poop jokes, sex jokes, and pot jokes. Maybe some people will miss it. I didn’t."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

C-
"Its very unambitiousness gives the film moments that almost approach charm. That said, it's still mostly just extremely dumb and vulgar. "  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

2/4
"As unsatisfying as its titular fast food chain’s repulsive mini-burgers, Leiner’s film shoots only for scatological silliness."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

3/5
"Amid the insane goofiness there's some serious stuff happening that actually speaks to us."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

B
"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."  Projection Booth  Rob Humanick

B+
"H&K has a lot to say about smoking pot and the silliness of its illegality...a “Marijuana Kills” public service commercial...is a stroke of satiric genius."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

3.5/5
"If you're among those who giggled at the trailer before calling your buds to say Dude. Harold Kumar. Looks funny., you'll probably find a solid case of chuckles here."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

C-
"Just when we thought the stoner comedy was a hazy relic of the past, along comes a new farce that has every hallmark of having been written while under the influence."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

B-
"[Cho and Penn] form an immediately likeable twosome with enough chemistry to carry this comedy ... past some obvious faults."  Eclipse Magazine  Sean O'Connell

"Stretches the boundaries of offensiveness in ways that both make us laugh and make us think."  Salon.com  Stephanie Zacharek

2/4
"It leaves you hungry -- for a better movie."  Reel.com  Timothy Knight

3/4
"I don't know if it's a revolution, but it's a step in the right direction. Funny, too."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

79/100
Read review  Apollo Guide  Dan Jardine

2.5/4
Read review  Big Picture Big Sound  Joe Lozito
OFCS Rating: 74% Fresh
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