Harold & Kumar

so you know, while i was searching around the web for stuff awhile back, i came upon Harold & Kumar. i remembered that it was a show my coz told me bout, so i decided, hey wth, lets see what its all about. so i went to find it. so, there are two movies actually,

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

and

Harold & Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay

interesting posters? not really. but damn are the movies funny. i'm not here to spoiler any plots, so this shall be a spoiler free review! so read on without fear!

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. the first time i saw this i was like dude. whats a white castle? i knew it had weed in it... so i thought, is this just about two guys getting high and going on some road-trip to some non-existent place?

well, i was wrong. at least that about the non-existent part. White Castle is apparently a fast food joint. stars Harold (john cho, korean) and Kumar (kal penn, indian) have a sudden (and perhaps weed-induced) craving for burgers, and decide to have White Castle sliders. after the resolution that they will not give up until they have white castles in their stomachs, they're off on a wildly madcap and at times, ridiculous trip to get those White Castle burgers. there are issues explored in the film(i think), like racism, true love, police brutality, the unfair hierarchal working system we have to live with... but i'm just gonna call a spade a spade. it is a comedy. the issues addressed do add a layer of thought-provoking classiness to it, but lets be honest. no matter how much u try to decorate your bathroom, a toilet is a toilet. White Castle is an outright comedy that, while crude and blunt, is actually funny. perhaps its the hapless losers that are Harold and Kumar (which many of us can relate to). perhaps its the film's unreserved, and unabashed usage of comedic situations, without trying to be pretentiously classy. perhaps its Neil Fucking Patrick Harris. but damn this is a comedy.

face it guys. perhaps the first 2.. or 30 love-comedies are funny. but you're bound to get sick of the lame and cliche you-are-totally-not-the-type-of-girl-i'll-like-but-through-a-series-of-boring-ass-predictable-events-we-fall-in-love-happily-ever-after plot. the comedy? seriously? woops i just dropped my girlfriend on the floor/in the water/out a plane. woops i fell off my bike/horse/bed. woops i just splashed my mother-in-law in the face with lemonade/beer/some-unwashable-substance/pee(ok, i made this one up. but even then it would be boring.). my god, these movies make me want to punch kittens.

so when i finally managed to dig out this historic gem (released 9 may 2008 i think), and watch it, i thanked the gods themselves(oh and my coz). this is what comedy should be about. weed, bongs, physical violence and boobs. yes, there are boobs in this movie so u squeamish types, i'm sorry, please try somewhere else. i hear Cats & Dogs is out. or something.

the second movie is pretty much the same as the first, just larger scale. bigger settings(from texas to amsterdam), wider issues(terrorism, governmental corruption), and... well, more bong-smoking, tit-squeezing and laugh-inducing shit. seriously. i don't wanna spoiler it for any of you guys out there who will wanna go see these movies, but fuck, they meet the fucking Ku Klux Klan, and Neil Patrick Harris rides a Fucking unicorn. you just gotta check it out man.

movie reviewing's harder than i thought:/