Good Stoner Movies

Finally a stoner comedy where the stoner part is actually a touch real. And the gaming stuff, close enough to real that I got all the "gamedork" allusions and references. Better than your average comedy, as it is actually funny. The lead actor is not my favorite for this role, but he does a decent job. Attention, Terri of Reno 911 fans, Nick Swardson is the protagonist's witty lil Sundance. Kevin Nealon's always great at absurd roles, here as a mid-lifer heavy into "the Asian fad" and I dunno his name, but the programmer is a funny and modern take of the eccentric prodigy character. Doris Roberts and her gang do a great job playing hammered old ladies. And did I mention that the uber cool weed dealer's got a ninja monkey? Yep, this movie has something for everyone.... who is awesome !Ka-Kow!

Definitely a funny movie and within a category of stoner films that actually tries to be realistic in the depiction of marijuana use, so I really like it. That said, the main actress is touch and go with her performance; sometimes she nails the "stoned out of her mind girl" and other times she is just repeating the same tactics used earlier, making her performance seem very flat and unrealistic at points. Having been around hundreds of "too stoned" people, I have to say that she needed to either do a bit more research or simply act better (pepper her performance with some variance).
Once again, I try to only review funny movies, and this is a very funny movie, for stoners at least.
I'm glad stoner movies are moving into this direction of more realistic portrayals of marijuana use. The camera techniques implemented here surpass the efforts of even classics like the Cheech and Chong series, and certainly beats the crap out of comedy missteps like Half Baked or How High.
So if you like those two aforementioned crapfests, you may not like this superior stoner wit.

According to R. Crumb (Fritz creator), he loathes this movie for its unfaithfulness to his comics. I think it's a great achievement for Bakshi, and proves that there is always art too risque to transfer to screen, even when you already plan on a smaller and specific audience. Also quite funny when intoxicated.

This is a funny and atmospheric dark comedy; it's NOT a horror remake of the classic "Race With the Devil" - it shares two plot incidents, but that is it.
This movie has the gritty indie feel, and since it's Canadian, I'm guessing that the "Trailer Park Boys" series was a big influence for this movie as well as some characters and the set design aesthetic are similar.
This is a "drug adventure" movie as its creators describe it. And that's damn exact. This movie is funny (so rare) and light yet loaded and morose as well. Great indie flick.
NOTE for "Good Stoner Movies" list: This movie is not a strict marijuana movie; the characters are junkies without boundaries and they consume a variety of hard drugs, but they occasionally relax with a joint.

A nun drinks ape cum, a stoner unites the leaders of two long feuding nations, a Britney Spearesque teen slutsation is convinced she's a good girl, a montage list of rarely mentioned racist stereotypes including Large Irish nipples, US military recruiters trick drunken Southerners with weed, inmates move in with suburban families because of prison overcrowding, and one helluva newsman battles corporate bias.
And Steven Seagal is THE COCKPUNCHER. It's a very American comedy, and more a series of sketches pulled together at the end than a movie. The Onion has always been funny, I've been a reader since 2003 and I like the Onion's new forays into podcasts, videos, and sketches, and this is the movie form of that..stuff. Plus there's mock-sublimnal use of gay sex!
That image above^ is why this is on my Hot Gay Sex list, but that is about the extent of the sex.

TPB RULES!!!!!

I've been meaning to write a review about this for a while, but I've been too stoned. When Doug says in his standup, "So I will be smoking pot all day every day for thirty days in a row", I would have heckled in reply, "Welcome to my life!!!"
A nice blend of stoner humor and serious documentary film-making on the political movement and people affected by the battle for legalization of marijuana in America. I'm a well rounded pothead, so I love this approach of going serious to silly several times in the same reel. ssssssmoke!
I'm totally high right now, and I love this movie. I woke up yesterday wanting to watch it again, and I wasn't even high then.

I sound daring to say this is innovative. I guess some of the activists in the movie really got to me, esp the guy who opened the first dispensary primarily for AIDS patients and when he talked about his place getting raided, he referenced Stonewall, saying to the state police, "Don't you realize - these people are going to fight back?!" Pulled at my little gay stoned lung pipes.
But there's hard-hitting stuff for everyone - who doesn't love a blunt paraplegic or a cute honor student with cancer? And since the film is set against the backdrop of the standup comedy profession, you're treated to snippets throughout that prove why Doug should be the #1 pot comic in this year's High Times.

I thought this was funnier than SuperHIGH Me, but not as well organized, blending sketch with real life snippets, and leaving only the top pot afficianadoes to know when something is staged vs. a small dispensary/activist's real PR material (such as Craig X of Temple 420 whom I'm sure people who haven't heard of him must think his segment is a sketch when it is in fact some standard Rev Craig X and Temple 420 footage). Doug Stanhope of SuperHIGH Me fame makes some quick stand-up appearances in this as well. The primary sketch gets a bit cliche and unfunny at times, but the actors and soundtrack usually pick up the lame joke slack. This is a satire written by someone who clearly understands the hypocrisy of political debate and the system of careful manipulation of designated cultural groups for financial gain (the capitalism meets every people-grouping -ism strategy), so I applaud it for one of the funniest jokes about, paraphrased, "Let's tell everyone that pot cures queers so that we can get it legalized. Because what scares the Bible belt mainstream religious right more than anything - not terrorism, taxes, or crime - queers!
Such a better effort nowadays in the pot movie realm, and this is one of the best/accurate semi-fiction flix yet. Like I said, lighter, less serious, and less structured than SuperHIGH Me but the injected written bits are often quite funny where SuperHIGH Me's injected activism bits are quite inspiring. The best way to describe this movie is the content of SuperHIGH Me smacked together with the scene layout/editing of The Onion Movie.

an interesting and decent pot doc, gets the most circulation at legalization events

fuggin awesome!

Stunning performance from Ben Kingsley, fantastic script, amazing soundtrack (and I'm not even a rap fan, but I AM a child of the 90s and the soundtrack is dead on). An inspirational dark comedy centering on an unusual relationship between pot dealer patient and mid-life crisis shrink. A film not to be missed.

I watched this for my 420th review but very depressingly as I have no sweet leaf myself and had to spend the entire length of the film gawking at the best cannabis in the world.

This isn't a genuine documentary, just a smash up of video coverage from the 15th cup. Plenty of beautiful buds to look at, but have some of your own ready to go or you'll be annoyed.

Recommended for stoners and heads only.

I can't properly appraise this (rate it) right now because it's been too long since I've seen it.

But dude....it's Linklater and it's about pot and high school. I know I loved it.

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