HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE: So the first movie I saw in 2006 was awesome! It’s basically… what it says on the box: These two stoner guys, i-banker Harold and unwilling about-to-be-med-student Kumar, get baked and decide they need to go to White Castle. Hijinks, as hijinks are wont to do, ensue. I laughed so hard and so consistently that my face hurt by the end of the movie. It was totally, completely stellar.

Now, okay: It earns its rating and then some. I would bet at least 60% of my readership is pretty much the opposite of the target audience. But if you’re in the 40%–see this movie now!!!! Kal Penn (Kumar) is phenomenal and really… I’m still cringing and giggling, almost a week later, at some of the twists.

The thing it really reminded me of, though, was Absolutely Fabulous. H&KGTWC; is sort of AbFab for twentysomething American stoner guys. Which means I don’t adore it the way I adore AbFab–despite what you might think, I’m actually not a stoner guy–but there’s the same combination of hilarity, ferocity, best-friendship, (VERY) broad humor, and total insanity.

I really, really loved this movie.