In Dude, Jesse and Chester (Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott) woke up after a night of hard partying and tried to figure out where they had parked their car. The film comes to us courtesy of director Steve Leiner, who-after years on the sitcom circuit-burst into feature films with the unapologetically idiotic Dude, Where's My Car? His newest outing follows more or less the same roadmap: Two stoner dorks engage in an epic quest to accomplish some simple task. And in this respect, it is a rousing success. Yes, it looks rude, crude and incredibly juvenile-but it's trying really hard to be rude, crude and incredibly juvenile. ![]() Given this argument, we can't simply dismiss a film like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. If a film is trying its damnedest to gross you out, and it's succeeding ( There's Something About Mary, for example), then it is-for lack of a better word-a “good” movie. ![]() ![]() If a film is trying to be a dumb movie, and it undoubtedly is (like, say, Airplane), then it must be deemed a success. and get stoned?”Ī movie succeeds or fails based on its own merits. Cho and Penn spread the racially sensitive message, “Can’t we all just get along.
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