How High (2001)

Must See Movie...

Memorable, crazy movie

Captivating movie !

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Making a comedy based around pot-smoking, for an appropriate audience that certainly doesn't want to have to concentrate too much, should not usually pose much of a problem for film-makers. But for the producers of this movie they sure have proved that this was a challenge they were willing to not only take on and accept, but then monumentally lose at. Production-value wise it comes across as a quite polished and adequately accomplished piece, mostly on the whole. The only problem being, and it's a biggy.... is that the predicaments, scenes, and jokes just aren't all that funny. And that is even though they are unquestionably coming from the almost bottomless source-material pit known as "base-humour". Having seen the fantastic "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" and the absolutely superb and unmatched "Don't Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" i know how good African-American base-humour comedies can be. In fact, Juice in the Hood is easily one of the best comedies i have ever seen. But this movie pales into absolute insignificance when compared to the non-stop bellylaugh quality humour of either of those. And therefore, with such high expectations, it only added to my eventual disappointment when i watched this film of mostly monotonous and largely childish fodder. Terrible!

...this movie is not. I'm actually watching this movie right now, a painful scene where a Harvard university student's bicycle is stolen and smashed by our nice stars, Jamal & Silas.The movie kicks off with a load of racial stereo types jokes, the obnoxious rich white kids in the rowing team, the "down with it" stoner characters.But I digress, this is obviously a stoner flick, if you're after a high school comedy try... well just about anything else. If like stoner movies and you want to spend an hour and a half watching two rappers harassing the annoying Bart, while flirting with every chick on the campus, then this will sit well with your expectations.If you like movies with true humour, which don't make you feel dumber after watching it, then you would be well advised to avoid this movie. I could back up my view that this is a bad movie, but that would require me sitting through more of this "Police Academy on Pot" movie. (switches movie off).

Like many other people, I expected a stereotypical "black" movie or a "pot" movie. And sure, you have many black jokes and many pot jokes in this film, but it's done in a surprisingly intelligent way that was both funny and incredibly original. Too many drug movies are simply rehashed (pun intended) but this was not one of them.The movie has Method Man and Redman entering Harvard where they teach others to stop being so uptight. Again, it sounds over like you've seen it before, but certain things here you won't see elsewhere. Things I can't say without giving away later parts of the film. But I can say it crosses a line where if you are easily offended or are very patriotic, you might get a little steamed.The acting? Fine, for a comedy. The plot, decent. The writing, quite good. The music was surprisingly good. There was, of course, a great deal of rap music. But other kinds of music were incorporated to round the feel of the movie out. I even heard Rammstein, which would seem out of place but really wasn't.Oh, and Lark Voorhies ("Saved by the Bell") co-stars, which would make this the second greatest college film to star a SBTB alumnus (the best being "Dead Man on Campus").I would recommend this film. I went in to it expecting some horrible trash, but left with a smile on my face and a new appreciation for Method Man and Redman.

You Americans suck. P.S. I'm white. It was a great comedy. Get lives. Are we still talking about the movie? Who reads these things anyway? The cool people obviously. Seriously, check your judgmental baggage at the cinema door. Get lives, did I say that? I need ten lines to submit this. I'm inserting bullsh*t here to meet the required length. Bullsh*t: This is that song to play at them parties, where them M&Ms are Trina act like Smarties Girls drink Bacardi, guys get naughty, got so much game people calling' me sporty But I don't know, what I'm gonna do tonight bro So many ho*s, its like Mitre 10 is having one of 'em sales again Oh no, no (Female): No he didn't just call me a hoe, boy you'd better be kidding' Yes, yes, yes I did, and I ain't a kid. Plus you gotta admit you get around a bit! You more easy than it is to get queasy When looking' at you girl. Who invited Kim Beazley?