 One might get the impression from the reviews that the stoner comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is not only about stoners, but is also for them, and that an altered state may be necessary in order to discover the film's real humor. Some suggest that even a memory of that state may be helpful. Allison Benedikt, for example, writes in the Chicago Tribune that the movie "will resonate deeply with anyone who attended high school in the 1990s and at least saw a joint." Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post concludes: "It isn't great, but what do you expect from the director [Danny Leiner] of Dude, Where's My Car?" Bob Townsend comments in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Its up-and-coming stars, Indian-American [Kal] Penn and Korean-American [John] Cho, break out of the stereotypical minor character roles they're usually relegated to and carry out all the goofiness with subversive intelligence and comedic chemistry." Indeed, Kevin Crust observes in the Los Angeles Times: "That Cho and Penn are such likable actors and are so funny in their roles earns the movie more slack than it probably deserves and prevents it from being just another gross-out comedy." |
