2K Replay: HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE

 by Adam Riske

Nominated for “Best On-Screen Team” (John Cho & Kal Penn) at the MTV Movie Awards. They lost to Lindsay Lohan-Rachel McAdams-Lacey Chabert-Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls.

• Best Scene/Moment (tie): A raccoon gets loose in Harold & Kumar’s car and when one of the “Extreme!” punks does a pterodactyl impression.

• Best Song (tie): “Baby, Baby” by Amy Grant and “Ridin” by Classic.

• Best Merch: A “Harold and Kumar ‘Weedy’ piece original prop” for $55.00. This would be a pretty cool prop to have, especially from a stoner movie, if it didn’t look like…well a clump of weed.

• Director Grade: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle was directed by the late Danny Leiner.
Great Movies: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Good Movies: N/A
OK Movies: Dude, Where’s My Car?
Bad Movies: N/A
Unseen By Me: Layin’ Low
Overall Grade: B+

• Double It with This 2004 Movie: EuroTrip

• Year 2004 Movies to Trailer Before Them: Starsky & Hutch, Team America: World Police, White Chicks

• Color of Night or Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle? Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

• Mall Movie? Yes! It’s a movie about stoners trying to get to White Castle because they have the munchies. This is why mall cinemas were built.

• Only in 2004: A good Harold & Kumar movie. I’m not a fan of the sequels.

• Scene Stealer (tie): Anthony Anderson and Neil Patrick Harris.

• I Miss: When New Line Cinema was a separately operated studio and not merged with Warner Bros.

• I Don’t Miss (tie): The bathroom scene (which I skip every time because it’s gross) and how every late-90s/early 2000s comedy had an “Extreme Unrated” DVD where watching the theatrical cut was no longer an option.

• 2004 Crush: Kate Kelton.

• 2024 Crush: Paula Garcés.

• What I Thought in 2004: I thought it was a perfect movie. I was so amped after seeing Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle on opening night in 2004 that I went with my friends to White Castle and bet on who could eat the most sliders. I regretted this decision immensely later that evening and the next day.

• What I Think in 2024: It’s still a perfect movie; one of the best of 2004. When I finished rewatching it this last time I almost let it play again. I wasn’t ready for it to be over.