Harold & Kumar shares DNA with the picaresque while gleefully playing with stereotypes and the weird fringes of American life only found late at night.
is the sort of fun, low budget stoner comedy that two decades ago got a chance to become a sleeper hit, instead of only playing theaters for 30 days before going straight to streaming. Yet unlike other bong-ripping late 90s/early 2000s brethrenis an intriguing mix of stupid and smart, thanks in part to the script by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg .
Despite their dramatic credentials as working actors, by 2004, John Cho was most famous for popularizing the term “MILF” in, and their screenplay gave Cho and Penn the chance to play the heroes for once, though studios didn’t get why Harold had to be Korean American and Kumar Indian American. One executive asked the writers: “Look, we really love this movie. Why don’t we do it with a white guy and a black dude?”century Hollywood played martial artists, silent monks, or hard-working students, Harold and Kumar are quasi-slackers who get stoned and laugh at bad anti-drug commercials on TV.
Cho handles the bulk of the movie’s arc with Harold building up his self-confidence, and he pulls it off with aplomb. The duo’s baked misadventures trying to find a White Castle feature a Ryan Reynolds cameo , stolen cars, hang gliders, and a gloriously, obviously fake rabid racoon puppet. The characters, however, might be stoned, but they’re not stupid, which only adds to their frustration with the bigoted cops and racist skate punks they encounter.
C.M. Crockford is a Philly-based neurodivergent writer with poems, articles, stories published in various outlets. You can find him onJuly 29, 2024 | 12:45pm
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