If one were able to toss the "American Pie" trilogy, the John Hughes brat pack pictures and the "Cheech & Chong" screen oeuvre into a cultural blender and then press the pulse button a few times, the result would probably have the flavor and consistency of "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," a blissfully silly, character-driven road movie with impressive laugh-per-minute performance specs. Screened at the CineVegas Film Festival (and shown a day later at the Los Angeles Film Festival), this inspired entry in the generally languid stoner comedy genre is a comparative breath of fresh, if herb-scented, air. [...] carried by a pair of relative newcomers, the New Line release should satisfy the cravings of laugh-starved young-adult audiences and will likely hang around well past Labor Day.

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