Also interesting is the fact that, aside from their stoner obsession, Harold and Kumar are actually quite intelligent. The ethnic angle (Harold is Korean, Kumar is Indian) lends a little diversity and allows for a few self-mocking jokes about racial stereotypes. Our titular toke-takers certainly follow in this grand tradition with a couple vaguely interesting twists. The rest of the brief runtime is eaten up by the string of wacky encounters that befall our hemp-loving heroes on the road to fast food satisfaction.įilm history is filled with “dummy duos”-from Abbot and Costello to Cheech and Chong to Bill and Ted to Beavis and Butthead. In H&K, the titular duo (John Cho and Kal Penn) get wicked stoned and decide to go out for White Castle hamburgers. In Dude, Jesse and Chester (Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott) woke up after a night of hard partying and tried to figure out where they had parked their car. The film comes to us courtesy of director Steve Leiner, who-after years on the sitcom circuit-burst into feature films with the unapologetically idiotic Dude, Where's My Car? His newest outing follows more or less the same roadmap: Two stoner dorks engage in an epic quest to accomplish some simple task.
And in this respect, it is a rousing success. Yes, it looks rude, crude and incredibly juvenile-but it's trying really hard to be rude, crude and incredibly juvenile. Given this argument, we can't simply dismiss a film like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. If a film is trying its damnedest to gross you out, and it's succeeding ( There's Something About Mary, for example), then it is-for lack of a better word-a “good” movie. If a film is trying to be a dumb movie, and it undoubtedly is (like, say, Airplane), then it must be deemed a success.
and get stoned?”Ī movie succeeds or fails based on its own merits. Cho and Penn spread the racially sensitive message, “Can’t we all just get along.
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