But it does make for a movie worth seeing with a bud. The first installment in the Harold & Kumar franchise, the film follows Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) on their adventure to a White Castle restaurant after smoking marijuana. Such whimsy-not to mention Leiner’s willingness to use his, uh, oeuvre as a punch line-doesn’t quite put Harold & Kumar in the heady company of Up in Smoke and Dazed and Confused. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (released in some international markets as Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a 2004 American buddy stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and stars John Cho, Kal Penn, and Neil Patrick Harris. In fact, Leiner & Co.’s allusion-heavy storytelling works in their favor most of the time, from Harold’s following-morning encounter with car thief Harris (“Dude, where’s my car?”) to a Half-Baked–esque dream sequence that finds Kumar romancing a giant sack of weed. Ever”-and then proceeds to hump the back seat. When grilled about his sexual conquests off the set, the former Doogie Howser, M.D., informs Kumar that he “humped every piece of ass on that show.
Still, much of this episodic film plays out like sketch comedy, with Cho’s Harold proving to be a fine straight man to Penn’s addled Kumar, and first-time scripters Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg had at least one stroke of genius between them: Fleeing a misadventure at Princeton, the hapless duo unwisely pick up a hitchhiker, who turns out to be…Neil Patrick Harris. UNRATED WITH EVEN MORE HILARIOUS CONTENT In the years funniest comedy, two guys on a quest to satisfy their cravings for burgers find themselves on a hilar. The plot is as simple-minded as the title implies: Lulled by the siren song of a White Castle commercial, office slave Harold and would-be med-school student Kumar-aka John Cho and Kal Penn, billed cheekily as “that Asian guy from American Pie” and “that Indian guy from Van Wilder”-head out into the night in search of “the feeling that comes over a man when he gets exactly what he desires.” The not exactly atypical gamut of roadblocks includes arrest, car theft, and a boil-infested Jesus freak who invites our heroes to fuck his wife. It would be difficult not to improve on such an initial offering, and though Leiner’s new Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is by no means a very good movie, it does quickly distance itself from Teutonic aliens and continuum transfunctioners. And thats exactly what happens to Harold and his roommate, Kumar, when they set out to get the best stoner. Sometimes, it takes a strange night to put everything else into focus. The problem must be all too obvious to director Danny Leiner, whose debut feature, 2000’s Ashton Kutcher–led Dude, Where’s My Car?, is arguably the least watchable entry in a genre already teeming with witless fare. Movie details AKA:Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies (eng), Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (eng), i i (eng) Movie Rating: 7.0 / 10 (189217) Fast Food. The makers of movies for and about stoners have enough of a challenge simply getting their target audience off the couch, let alone holding its attention for 90 or so minutes.
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