Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle     ASIN B001AEF6HC     Medium Count 1     Medium Blu-ray     Release Date 7/26/2008     Group DVD     Link [+]     Aspect Ratio 1.85:1     DVD Region 1     Running Time 88 minutes     Studio New Line Home Video     Theatrical Date 1/1/2008     Audience Rating Unrated     Cast Penn, Kal / Cho, John / Krumholtz, David / Willard, Fred / Guzman, Luis     Director Leiner, Danny     Format Color / Blu-ray     Language English     Features Extreme Unrated     Date Imported 6/12/2013     List Price $0.00     Rating 5.05.05.05.05.0     Genre Comedy     Copy Count 1     Tag Hollywood     IMDb Rating 0      From the director of Dude, Where's My Car? comes another crazed tale of two friends on a perilous quest--in this case, to eat burgers at the fast food restaurant White Castle. The pair--repressed Harold (John Cho, Better Luck Tomorrow) and freewheeling Kumar (Kal Penn, Love Don't Cost a Thing)--get extremely high and set off on the road, only to be sidetracked by skateboarding hooligans, racist cops, an inbred tow truck driver, and Neil Patrick Harris--yes, Doogie Howser, M.D. The humor is all over the map, and it would be nice if there were one female character who wasn't a caricature, but Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle has a loose, gregarious charm, and the movie's canniness about the cliches of the buddy-movie genre give it a sneaky subversive feel--just the fact that neither of the heroes is white puts a different spin on just about every circumstance. Surprisingly clever, cheerfully stupid. --Bret Fetzer