The first Harold
and Kumar movie from the franchise was just too much. This was a stoner movie
that did something different. Instead of the stereotype of making stoners look
distant from reality and life, this movie made stoners look like stoners.
The comedy in
this movie is over-the-top funny, the acting is A-class, and the chemistry
between John Cho and Kal Penn is not something you see every day.
If you haven’t
been onboard or seen any of the Harold and Kumar movies, let me introduce you
to them. Harold Lee (John Cho) is a Korean-American man working at his first
job in investment banking. Then we have Kumar Patel (Kal Penn), an
Indian-American with good medical knowledge who comes from a family of doctors.
These best friends, roommates, and regular stoners had a quest—which this movie was all about—getting some burgers. Harold is the more stable of the two, with Kumar being an over-the-top, carefree guy. They got high as usual, and while high, they got hungry and started craving some burgers—but not just any burgers, White Castle burgers. The two started out on a journey to get some burgers, and that journey is this movie.
Their path
crossed with some issues that plague the world: racial profiling by police
officers, stereotypical judgments by others, and they even met Neil Patrick
Harris, who plays a fictional version of himself—and that version is a plague.
The movie’s
single-minded tone is what makes it awesome. The adventure of the two on their
way to get the burgers they wanted made me not just happy to see them carry out
this task, but you get to learn a lot along the way too.
The movie’s
directing and writing come at you like you’re the one on the journey with these
two. It places you in a position where you feel like a fly on the wall to the
incidents happening to these characters. The only time you get to snap out of
it is when their journey takes a fictitious turn—and their journey does take
numerous fictitious turns. You just find yourself happy along with it.
Here’s a movie
to keep and watch anytime your life feels down. It’s guaranteed to make up the
best part of your day and give you a fun way to check out life itself.
This movie
spawned two other movies in the franchise: the second being Harold
& Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) and the last, A
Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011).
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