Online Film Critics Society
Home     About OFCS     Member Profiles     Schedule     Forum     Awards     OFCS Blog
    O.F.C.S. Members: Sign In    

O.F.C.S. Members

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)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS OTHER
OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh
Page  
 

"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

B+
"You'll laugh, you'll laugh, and you'll laugh%u2014especially if you see the movie in the cannabis enhanced glaze that the filmmakers intend."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

"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."  DustinPutman.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

6/10
"...for all its juvenile shortcomings, there's a sweet and beguiling charm to the film."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

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

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: 77% Fresh
Page  
 


Reviews database provided by Rotten Tomatoes and the Movie Review Query Engine

powered by ROTTEN TOMATOES
All articles and reviews on this website © the respective authors.
All other content © The Online Film Critics Society (0.10)