April 19 movie: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. Now this was funny! I really enjoyed it a lot. I rented it after hearing Neil Patrick Harris on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, discussing his part. Which was indeed hilarious. Though I must concede, I would have enjoyed the movie a lot less if I had watched it in a theater and hadn't been able to fast-forward through the gross-out bodily function scenes (the two girls in the bathroom and the guy with the skin problem).
At first I thought this was basically the same as After Hours but by the end I decided they're totally different. After Hours (if I recall it correctly) is completely nihilist. Harold and Kumar is a much more traditional narrative: they have a goal, they encounter obstacles, they achieve the goal, and they become better people in the process. Nobody is a better person at the end of After Hours.
The DVD menu screen features Harold and Kumar in their car, wondering why the viewer won't pick a damned option already. "Come on, be nice! They got the DVD!" "No, man, this is starting to piss me off!"
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