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I tried watching the first Harold & Kumar movie but I had to turn it off once I realized that the film was intended for 12 year olds with severe learning deficiencies.

Thanks for the great review, and for not revealing all the gags. I can't wait to see it tonight.

As a second-generation Indian-American, I found the first H&K to be a brilliant satire of race relations in the U.S. Much more truthful than the sanctimonious and overwrought 'Crash.' That it could be both lowbrow and daringly honest speaks to its growing and enduring popularity ever since it came out on dvd. A lot of my white friends just don't understand the appeal. They see it as just another crass teen comedy, not realizing how casting the leads with two Asian-American actors and seeing the country through their eyes totally changed the meaning of the film. For once, the audience sympathized with the yellow and brown characters instead of seeing them as exotic one-dimensional caricatures. No other film has done that, where the non-whites are seen as fundamentally American.

I haven't seen Escape yet but hope to. I rented White Castle on my son's advice. Thought I'd hate it... watched it several times. Even bought it. It's a classic for great humor and human tolerance towards our differences. But please, Kumar is an Indian (from India) NOT an Asian-American! Did you truly understand everything you saw?

And India is located on what continent? sheesh.

I loved the first one, can't wait to see the second one. Great review, though looking back at your top list of 2004, why is Mr. 3000 anywhere need the top? Was that an awful year in movies? Did you have no choice?

By the way, Indian's in Asia, you dolt.

Well, call me a dolt and kick my ass! Wikipedia says, "In the United States, Canada, and Australia, the term Asian refers most commonly to people of predominantly East Asian or Southeast Asian ancestry; however in the United Kingdom and Anglophone Africa, the term refers most commonly to South Asians.[7][8] In other countries, the term is applied to all people from Asia in general. In the US, however, Middle Eastern and Central Asian people are usually not considered Asian peoples.[9]" Go smoke another doobie.

It doesn't matter what wikipedia says, India is in Asia, therefore the reviewer and letter writers have the right to refer to Kumar as an Asian-american. You sounded so mad in your letter, like Stephanie Zacharek had missed this vital clue to the "White Castle" puzzle. So calm and take your own suggestion.

I will too.

Indians carry tomahawks and wear feathers in their hair.

The whole point of the movie was to point out differences. If we call both of these main characters Asian/American then the main idea is lost. Guess what, Russia is also in Asia as well as 43 other countries. Should we call them all Asians?! No, this movie is about two very different kinds of personalities and we should give them their ethnic identities as it pertains to this movie. The Asian is a meticulous numbers man and the Indian is a potentially fantastic doctor. It's been done before in a less pragmatic theme in The Odd Couple. Don't try to group together a couple who are meant to be different. It waters down the theme. That's my 10 cents.

In a colorstruck society such as America it is important to distinguish cultural differences--such is the so-called "melting pot". When we see an Indian person we don't see an Asian, we see an Indian (often mistaken for an Arab); when we see an African person we don't see an African we see a black person; when we see a Russian, we don't see a Russian, we see a white person. So those who aren't confused by Harold and Kumar being referred to as the two Asian men in the article are simply pretending to be colorblind and missed the whole point of the movie--a wonderful satirical comedy with an upfront, but cunningly dogmatic racial theme. Look at it this way, why isn't Obama referred to as an American even though he was born in America and lives in America? Do articles refer to him as an American, no they refer to him as a Black man. Okay? Nuf said.

It's totally awesome;)

The bag was full of shiny pennies, not gold coins. That's why one of the guys said "looks like about $7" (or words to that effect).

Loved the first one, loved the second one, laughed both times until I though I couldn't laugh any more... and then laughed some more.

Ignorant white people telling non-whites how to define themselves! Now I really do need to go smoke a doobie!

The whole point, womanover50, is that Harold and Kumar are fundamentally AMERICAN, not Asian or Indian. You don't seem to get that point since you shout in capital letters that Kumar is from India. No, Kumar is from AMERICA, his parents are from India. Get that through your racist little lily white head.

As long as ignorant entitled white people in this country keep seeing whites as the 'normal and real' Americans, stupid ignorant racism will continue.

There, now I feel better. Have a nice day :)

Imagine if the Semitic lobby had Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson type exposers, and the movies that are regularly making humor of the Jewish "Holocaust" existed.

It seems that every single movie of comedy, marketed by Jewish and European directors and producers--both living like kings today, off the spoils of slavocracy--find comedy in the Native Afrikan Ethnocide they administered.

Iv'e also noticed, only the Black Holocaust is used as a funny scene to make the modern-day sufferings and plantationomics we still experience, appear all the more over with. This kind of media distraction is really made to make Affirmative Action, Reparations, free healthcare & educational opportunities, subsidies and welfare obtained by the xenobes, seem unnecessary for us.

But please, Kumar is an Indian (from India) NOT an Asian-American! Did you truly understand everything you saw?

Kumar is American (i.e. not from India). His family is from India. India is in Asia. Kumar is, as Americans are so fond of describing ethnicities, Asian-American.