Cho is the straight guy with a gift for physical comedy and Penn is the laid back one with the outrageous lines - Chong to Cho's Cheech. Cho and Penn are brilliantly cast both separately and as a duo - a "Harold & Kumar" series should be ensured. This low budget effort features such baldly cheesy special effects that one can only smile at their cheerful execution. Director Danny Leiner ("Dude, Where's My Car?") packs a wealth of material into an economic running time without losing his audience or the occasional social commentary.
And that's not all! Just when they've lost their resolve, they run into their across-the-hall neighbors Rosenberg and Goldstein (Eddie Kaye Thomas, "American Pie" and David Krumholtz, "Sidewalks of New York" - the screenwriters alter egos?), whose mere presence at a fast food joint inspires Harold to carry on. Along the way, they will encounter the same hip-hop bullies that haunt their neighborhood, two English girls with bad bathroom habits, an Asian student club and the girl who has a crush on Harold, a rabid raccoon, a surgical theater, the girl Harold has a crush on (Paula Garces, "Clockstoppers"), an escaped cheetah, a jail cell, an oozing Jesus freak, Neil Patrick Harris, and a gigantic stash of weed Kumar envisions spending the rest of his life with. A White Castle television commercial is the powerful suggestion that sends the Felix and Oscar-like roomies all over the state of New Jersey in a quest to satisfy their appetite.
Both Harold and Kumar finish their journey with distinctly new outlooks on life without having lost any of their irreverent, goofy charm.
The result is an epic pothead movie with laughs and smarts that relies on old standards like the farmer's daughter while kicking the stereotype right out from under their racially diverse characters. When Kumar's foxy machinations succeed, he and Harold must assuage their subsequent munchies, and so an epic evening begins when "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle." Screenwriters Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg took a simple premise and shaped it from their own personal experiences. Harold's roommate Kumar (Kal Penn, "Malibu's Most Wanted") spends his days evading his dad's attempts to get him into med school and convincing Harold to come home to smoke the killer weed he's scored. 'Just cuz you're hung like a moose doesn't mean you've gotta do porn.' - Kumar Harold (John Cho, "American Pie") churns data for investment bankers who take advantage of his work ethic.
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