Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) Poster

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MPAA Rated R for strong language, sexual content, drug use and some crude humor
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Sex & Nudity

  • Two girls flash their breasts at a party, which is shown on camera.
  • Harold walks into his room to find Kumar standing nude in front of a mirror (we see his full rear nudity). He states that he's trimming his "pubes" (pubic hair) and equates that hair to a bonsai forest and that cutting them "makes your Johnson look bigger." As he walks off, we see his bare butt again.
  • Kumar sees a large bag of pot in a police station and then has a fantasy montage that has humanized the bag (with full-sized arms and legs) and shows them going through quick scenes of being a "couple." Included in that is the two in bed with the bag coming up from under the covers (suggested oral sex) and then the two having sex on a bed "face" to face (all played for laughs and with no nudity).
  • A woman shows her breasts to two guys and prepares to have sex but it stopped by her disfigured husband that wants to join in.
  • Lots and lots of sex jokes throughout, comparable to Superbad and American Pie.
  • Raunchy sex humor throughout the film.

Violence & Gore

  • Harold and Kumar crash into a tree while hang-gliding and then fall down through the branches to the ground. Harold is seen with a cut on his forehead and strangles Kumar trying to kill him.
  • We see some guys attack two other guys on the street, striking them with pipes and then kicking them on the ground (played for laughs). We later see the victims who are bruised, etc.
  • A clerk at a fast food drive-through window suddenly goes crazy and overturns things in the place.
  • A tow truck driver menacingly grabs Harold and Kumar by their shirts while briefly mad at them.
  • Kumar falls from an overhead vent shaft and lands hard on a table below him that collapses to the floor.
  • A cop pushes Kumar down as he and other cops rush to push a black prisoner up against a wall (played for laughs at cop racism).
  • We briefly see a cheetah dragging off a human corpse (in the dark with no blood).
  • A raccoon gets into the car with Kumar and Harold (unbeknownst to them) and then suddenly attacks Harold, biting at his neck (with some bloody results, but played for goofy laughs).
  • A man who is shot lies in a hospital bed bleeding to death (there's a gross-out blood squirt), though this isn't meant to be frightening, and he later starts telling Kumar how to get to White Castle casually.
  • A man is seen with his face and neck covered with pimples. One is seen to be bungling and leaking yellow footage.
  • Harold tries to punch Kumar who ducks out of the way, thus making Harold inadvertently punch the cop standing behind Kumar..
  • Whilst riding a cheetah, Harold gets smacked in the face by a branch and thrown off. (played for laughs)
  • In a dream sequence, we see a gun firing an animated bullet that hits a cop with resultant animated blood (not intended to be realistic).

Profanity

  • 'Shit' is said at least 72 times.
  • Everything presented here is played for laughs, but some viewers might take offense at some of the attempted jokes involving homophobia, racism and more.
  • Some guys call Harold and Kumar "McFags" and one then says that the guy with the purse is "the catcher" (meaning the recipient of anal sex). SEE SEX AND NUDITY
  • A jerk refers to Harold (who's Asian) as Mr. Miyagi (from "The Karate Kid").
  • 9 slang terms using male genitals ("c*ck," "c*cks*cker," "d*ck," "Johnson," "pr*ck" and "sausage")
  • 6 slang terms using female genitals ("p*ssy," "poontang" and "fur burger"),
  • 9 slang terms for breasts (variations of "t*t" along with "boobs" and "rack")
  • 'Ass' is said at least 24 times (10 used with "hole"),
  • 'Hell' is said at least 21 times.
  • 'Damn' is said at least once.
  • "Jesus Christ," is said at least six times.
  • "God" is said at least five times.
  • "Oh my god" is said at least three times.
  • "Jesus" and "Oh God." is said at least twice.
  • 'Fuck' is said at least 56 times (5 bleeped out, 3 used with "mother" and 3 used sexually as are the terms "bang," "boned," "humped" and "laid),

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Harold throws pot out the window
  • We see cigarette cartons in the background of a convenience store.
  • We see programming on the TV that shows two guys smoking pot and then one, after saying he's so high, putting a rifle barrel in his mouth. We then see that it's an anti-drug commercial.
  • Two of the guys' neighbors are seen smoking pot. After making a joking but disparaging homosexual comment about Harold and Kumar, one asks the other if he wants to "suck on this" (his pot pipe). (see sex and nudity too)
  • We see Harold rolling a joint, but after Kumar is forced to drive through a toll gate, Harold tosses it and the rest of their pot out the window (for fear of being pulled over by the police).
  • Kumar tries to buy pot from a college student (who has a huge bag of it) and various slang terms for it are used. Once he's bought it, he invites two coeds to join him in smoking it, but that never occurs.
  • Kumar lifts hospital access cards from his father and another doctor so that he and Harold can get access to some medical marijuana. When they're mistaken for doctors and taken into the ER, Kumar keeps telling other hospital staff that they need marijuana for the surgery (but are told the hospital doesn't have any).
  • Neil Patrick Harris states that he's on "X" (ecstasy).
  • Kumar sees a large bag of pot in a police station and then has a fantasy montage that has humanized the bag (with full-sized arms and legs) and shows them going through quick scenes of being a "couple." Included in that is the two in bed with the bag coming up from under the covers (suggested oral sex) and then the two having sex on a bed "face" to face (all played for laughs and with no nudity). SEE SEX AND NUDITY
  • Harold and Kumar smoke pot and we see an escaped cheetah blowing smoke out from its nose.
  • The plot revolves around two stoners going to a fast food restaurant on the "munchies".
  • Many characters are seen smoking Marijuana, including a comic scene in which a wild Cheetah is getting "high" from inhaling the smoke. Also a comic scene in which Kumar is dreaming about living with a giant bag of Marijuana as a wife.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • None, though some may find racial profiling offensive. A man is seen with huge boils and pus spews out, which most will find disgusting. A man lies bleeding to death in a hospital (see violence and gore) which some may find frightening. There is also a scene where a racoon attacks Harold and bites him in the car.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Neil Patrick Harris is seen driving Harold's car with 2 naked women (breasts are clearly seen)

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