Excellent but underrated film

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This movie was just too crude, offensive, stupid and often times tiring to me to be entertaining. Also, just the characters Harold and Kumar themselves annoyed me. I thought that Neil Patrick Harris's cameo would be at least mildly entertaining, but nope, he was even more annoying than Harold and Kumar, which I did not think was even possible. He just tried to get laid throughout the entire movie, and talk about sexy women, which was crude, annoying and got real old, real fast. A few scenes were pretty entertaining, but just a few, unfortunately that trend did not last throughout the film. 3/10 for Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. I cannot suggest this film, there are a lot better, higher quality comedies to watch and enjoy rather than this trifle

I saw this movie on TV long after its cinema release. I have a weakness for a good gross-out movie and this was a classic. The two leads are fantastic, particularly the guy playing Harold. He's just very funny. I love how this movie illuminates racism but also how the two guys, and all the other characters, laugh at themselves. For example, the earnest young men and women who fawn over Harold when he visits the student lounge, sending up the stereotype of the straight-laced goody-goody Asian student. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle shows how very few Hollywood movies have Asians in the lead roles, and that's a travesty. Here, they are front and centre, giving their view of the world but also laughing at white guys, black guys and everyone else. One thing I didn't like was the emphasis on marijuana. It just got a bit labored in the end. I'm not a prude, but it's a bit of a crutch to rely on getting stoned as a joke. Although I guess it was accurate enough given the number of people in society who smoke!

Harold and Kumar are the Cheech and Chong of the new generation. But the dynamic between the likable characters elevates "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" above the typical stoner comedy.Harold is an accountant who takes the brunt of "positive" Asian-American stereotypes, namely that they're all good at math. He is serious and bookish, but enjoys getting high on the weekends. Kumar is Harold's Indian-American roommate and polar opposite. Getting high is a way of life for Kumar, and he plans to float through life on his dad's money.On one fateful Friday night, the two heroes have the munchies and are determined to get their fix at White Castle after seeing a TV commercial. The nearest White Castle is a good 45-minute drive, providing you know the way. The two stoners predictably get lost and have a series of quirky late-night adventures as they stray off the beaten path, which include encounters with a Jesus freak straight out of "Deliverance" known as Freakshow, frequent run-ins with a gang of "extreme" skateboarders, and Neil Patrick Harris (TV's Doogie Howser, M.D.). One of my favorite scenes is a fantasy sequence in which Kumar imagines his life with a giant, walking sack of weed.The movie is stylish and makes good use of what appears to be a relatively low budget of $9 million ($20 million would be modest for a comedy)."Harold & Kumar" has a lot of good laughs, including both situational humor and playing on racial stereotypes. The racial humor is funny without getting too offensive or preachy. But the movie ultimately works because of the character development. Even with their flaws, Harold and Kumar are both likable characters that the audience can root for. Character change drives good fiction, and the viewer is happy to see Harold learn to assert himself and Kumar decide to grow up.While "Harold & Kumar" is not a great film by any stretch of the word, it accomplishes exactly what it set out to do, which makes it effective.

When i first saw this film, i absolutely wet my pants. This film is hilarious but is crude. Harold and Kumar has a pretty good plot for a stoner film but also has actual characters and are not paper thin.Harold is a hard working Asian accountant and Kumar is a genius slacker who does more sleeping than working but both have one thing in common, and that is that they like smoking weed. The film does have a steady pace from start to finish but does verge on ridiculous towards the end.I really enjoyed the jokes and plot lines running through the film and one of the highlights of the film is that NPH or neil patrick harris plays himself as a hard drinking womanising playboy and is hilarious! He really knows how to make an audience light up and is never really disliked at any point in the film.However some parts of the film i didn't like is the fact that there are some extreme points in the film which verge on ridiculous but could be down to the fact that the characters may actually be high.Overall: If you like comedies then you have to watch whitecastle and its sequel Guantanamo bay. However the Xmas film does not live up to the first two. The characters are likable and NPH is great. But be weary of some of the more ridiculous parts of the film if it doesn't float your boat.