As a birthday outing, I went out with the guys to catch a couple of guy movies. Funny though, as I thought about it on hindsight, there are just about as many guy movies as “chick flicks”, yet the general understanding is that the latter is dominating the industry.

But I digress.

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is a pretty much brainless comedy about two friends who go out on a road trip to get some food from fast food joint White Castle. Much hijinks ensue when they discover that the nearest branch is actually some distance away. Despite being simple, mindless fun, the movie also conveys an idealistic theme about being yourself, grabbing life by the horns and achieving your dreams.

Speaking of grabbing horns…

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is just that - a true underdog story. Bunch of losers - a pedantic nerd, a skinny dunce, a short (possibly gay) brutha, a college dork and a pirate - meet regularly at the gym, until a financial situation pushes them to earn enough money to save the place from being bought over by fitness conglomerate Globo Gym. I think Ben Stiller’s character puts it best.

‘Well, that’s it. Good guy wins. Bad guy loses. Big freagin’ surprise. That’s the problem with the American cinema: Can’t handle any complexity. “Whoa! Don’t make me think!”‘