![]() ![]() Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are 22-year-old best friends just out of college trying to make it in the dreaded "real world." While Harold is a responsible investment banker, he is utterly bored by his job and used as an easy scapegoat so the rest of his coworkers can slack off. By comparison, "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" also veers all over the map, a series of sketches more than a tightly strewn plot, but its raunchy R-rated source of comedy is of a richer and more fearless variety, and its two lead characters based squarely within the planes of reality. That 2000 effort was more frequently moronic than funny, and its incessantly nonsensical, thoroughly dull subplot about aliens in the second half sunk whatever charm it might have otherwise had. This comes all the more as a surprise because of its superficial similarities to director Danny Leiner's last film, " Dude, Where's My Car?," which was likewise about two stoner friends on the search for something. ![]() "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" is low-brow, profane, and undeniably irrelevant, but any comedy that finds a way to sneak in obscure jokes about Katie Holmes' nude scene in 2000's " The Gift" and the infectious beats of Wilson Phillips' 1990 pop hit, "Hold On," is far from stupid. ![]()
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