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Avg. Critic Score: 64 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 Iffy for 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Harold and Kumar share a quality the overgrown adolescents in films like this are never allowed to possess: They're witty, focused, and highly aware. They make having a brain look hip. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Will seem a classic if you're stoned, and only slightly less funny if you're straight. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    A peppy, satisfying comedy that could soon become a minor classic Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Gleefully upends expectations and delivers an energetic comedy tracing two guys'all-night search for the perfect White Castle burger. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    I laughed often enough during the screening of Harold & Kumar that afterward I told Dann Gire, distinguished president of the Chicago Film Critics' Assn., that I thought maybe I should rent "Dude, Where's My Car?" and check it out. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times |

    That Cho and Penn are such likable actors and are so funny in their roles earns the movie more slack than it probably deserves and prevents it from being just another gross-out comedy. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    A blissfully silly, character-driven road movie with impressive laugh-per-minute performance specs. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    The recent model for this kind of surreal jazz-riff comedy is Doug Liman's 1999 "Go," a neo-classic. But you know already from the director (Dude, Where's My Car?'s Danny Leiner) if this movie is for you. Leiner has cornered the recent market on low-rent farces. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    The chemistry between the two is as old as Abbott and Costello. Harold is the sensible worried one, and Kumar zany and reckless. The movie's funniest moments, set at Princeton University, caricature and then demolish the image of Asian-Americans as nerdy, sexless bookworms incapable of fun. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Carla Meyer

    Pretty standard stuff, mixing a few truly clever moments with facile drug humor and throwaway female characters. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ Extremely silly and vulgar comedy with some clever humor.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie wallows in bad taste and is cheerfully vulgar and offensive in every possible category. It includes constant drug use, bad language, extremely explicit toilet humor, and frequent and explicit sexual references and situations. There is comic violence, some graphic, including a scene in surgery with a lot of blood and a disfigured man. While some characters are bigoted and there is a lot of homophobic and racist humor, a strength of the movie is the portrayal of diverse characters.
  • Families can talk about how Harold and Kumar deal with pressure from family and co-workers. What does it mean to say that "the universe tends to unfold as it should?"
  • Parents can talk to kids about drug and alcohol use. What are the real life consequences? How is drug use portrayed in the media?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Rampant homophobic and racist humor meant as over the top. But -- almost unheard of in Hollywood -- the movie's titular stars are Asian and Indian.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: The lead characters can be charming and funny, but make some bad choices and smoke pot constantly.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: A surgery scene with much blood.
  • sex false4 Sex: Frequent and sexual references and situations.
  • language false3 Language: Strong language.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: White Castle is prominently on display here.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false5 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Constant marijuana use that looks pretty fun.
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