How uptight is Harold? His fantasy is to be able to talk to her in the elevator and invite her over to eat ice cream at his place! After smoking down and watching a great spoof of anti-drug PSAs, our heroes have the munchies and after seeing an ad for our titular burger place, they head off for White Castle and find crazy adventure instead. Adding to the low-level turmoil is Harold's unrequited crush on a cute girl, Maria (Paula Garces), who lives in his apartment. He shows up disheveled, takes a cell call from Harold and berates him for wanting to stay at work instead of coming home to get stoned and admits that he's only doing the interview to keep his doctor father happy so he'll keep paying his rent. Besides, as they say, "those Asian guys just love to crunch numbers." Kumar (Kal Penn - ne¿ Kalpen Modi), his Indian-American roommate, is introduced while sandbagging his interview for med school entrance. We meet him as his jerky White-American superiors are dumping their work on him so they can go out and party for the weekend. Harold (John Cho) is a seemingly straight-laced Korean-American living la vida Office Space as a cube-dwelling drone for an investment bank in New Jersey. That said Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is a pretty darn funny stoner comedy. One comedic sub-genre I usually avoid is the "stoner comedy" because I don't smoke dope and if I want to watch morons being stupid, I know where to find enough hemp poncho-wearing lowlifes kicking the hacky sack in my neighborhood. I can't see the appeal of Pamela Anderson at all, but Angelina Jolie is, well, I refer to her as "the Missus." Taste in comedy is like taste in women: What works for some may not work for others and what you may find hilarious/beautiful may be unfunny/hideous to someone else.
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