The above comment was stolen from this one elsewhere in this comment section. H&K took a genre that depicted weed smokers as lazy and worthless and made a movie where those same characters are talented, smart, and capable with the right push, and it feels more appropriate for a world that was coming to embrace marijuana use as an acceptable lifestyle choice. Meanwhile, Kumar is kind of a burnout who doesn't want to have a real job, but at the same time we find out that he is actually incredibly smart and skilled at surgery and medicine and the reason he avoids actual jobs is because he lacks ambition, which is a flaw he overcomes by the end of the movie. He's hard working and dedicated and his character flaw is that he's a little too willing to do other people's work for them.
But Harold and Kumar inverts that trope: Harold has a really good job working for an office, and not only is he not a lazy burnout but he also spends most of the movie doing actual work outside of normal work hours. They live to get high and getting high is pretty much all they do. It made a pretty good case too: In more traditional stoner movies like Cheech and Chong, the main characters are always burnouts and stoners who spend every moment they can high while they work dead-end jobs and get into ridiculous shenanigans. I remember a Cracked article that was a list of great stoner movies, but really it just wanted to get to the top spot so it could talk about how Harold & Kumar was a postmodern stoner movie. The theme of the movie is "See those guys you don't think are marketable enough to warrant their own movie? They are fucking amazing!" they get Neil Patrick Harris and he is 1000% more intense than anyone else they could have run into! Tom Green is gonna pop in and say something funny. Other characters go out to have a crazy night in Vegas and run into Mike Tyson. It's Neil Patrick Harris! He was NOT a big star. The whole point of the movie is to break down the classic sex comedy formula and show how the marginalized background comic relief characters might just have the better story.
It's so much more than a stoner movie, it's amazingly well written, an inspired example where the stakes could not be lower but our heroes challenges couldn't be higher. Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle is a brilliant deconstruction of early 2000's comedies. Latest Discussions Texas Chainsaw Massacre Uncharted Death on the Nile Roland Emmerich Jamie Dornan Robert Pattinson (2017) The Big List of Movie-Related Subreddits.Our Full Rules and Wiki Filter Posts by Link FlairĬlick 'spoiler' after posting something to give it a spoiler tag! The post will then be hidden like this.įor leaked info about upcoming movies, twist endings, or anything else spoileresque, please use the following method:
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