![]() ![]() I do find about 70% of it genuinely funny, bc my sense of humor is trash, but. Plus, Kal Penn and John Cho are both charismatic enough to sell it. It's sorta gross and problematic af and I don't actually recommend it - but, at the time it came out it was a fairly original premise and it's kinda impressive how absolutely random the narrative is while still managing to tell a perfectly cohesive story with beginning, middle, climax, and end. Like, I'm not proud of this it's just a lot of stoner/weed jokes, sexual innuendo, and literal toilet humor. Just gonna get this one out of the way first bc I am legit embarrassed about it, but it did come to mind immediately bc I just watched it a few nights ago, so in the interest of being transparent, yknow. It’s all a lot of fun if you don’t mind mindless humor.- Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Of course the ultimate highlight is when they pick up Neil Patrick Harris who would become a mainstay in all the Harold and Kumar films. ![]() They get in a car crash and get picked up by a tow truck driver called Freak Show. They pose as doctors and perform a surgery. Just the fact that Harold and Kumar are stoners is a huge break with the common images of Asian Americans.Īfter that things just escalate. Harold talks about how a girl at Princeton that calls him a twinkie for being yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Kumar constantly tries to disappoint his father who only cares about him being a doctor. Thus there’s lots of talk about being hungry, smoking, etc.Īdded to that was plenty of jokes around Asian stereotypes. Most of the movie is pretty low brow humor, much of it based around getting and being stoned. That leads to an adventure throughout New Jersey. Harold and Kumar are two potheads who get high one night and decide to eat at White Castle. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle was the beginning of a fantastic comedy partnership of John Cho and Kal Penn, the first Asian Americans to have their own movie franchise. ![]()
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