Mac & Devin Go to High School (2012)

Pretty Good

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

At the start of the movie they are warning you that you can't watch this movie without being high. That part was true, and I should have listened. Though I seriously doubt that being high would help, and even if it did, why not watch an actually fun movie while being high? Twice the pleasure.

I love this movie and I love how the host of the movie was a talking joint. I love how Snoop Dogg really tried to pretend he was a high school student. That alone had me in tears because Snoop Dogg is old as hell. I loved seeing Wiz in this movie being the nerd that gets corrupted. I had a feeling that Snoop Dogg and Wiz were actually smoking weed in this movie. I personally got tired of the religious references, but I found it funny as well. I love all the tracks in this movie. I love how the handicap kid was always smoking weed and ended up having sex with a cheerleader in his school. I love how Mac was giving every person weed that he met. I loved seeing Mike Epps in this movie as well. It was funny how they smoked weed together and were learning algebra and chemistry like as if they actually study in real life. I also love the tattoo life was being shown some love as well! Seeing Wiz and Snoop go get some ladies was even funnier. I feel like Wiz Khalifa actually ended up getting laid on the movie. When Snoop and Wiz got arrested I thought it was funny to see their little argument hahaha for the problem in the story. It was hilarious seeing the assistant principal fall in love with the substitute teacher. I love the positive speech about weed at the end of this movie as well.

Wouldn't watch it again. With exception of a few funny and creative moments the movie is very monotonous and has no plot. Usually I like Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa but they do not make good actors. You cannot believe that they still go to High School because they look older than the teachers. The movie confirms every stereotype of ghetto (drug) style. The artificial claim does not hold if you are interested in a good movie. I wanted to break up watching it but I kept because of the music acts that are more high class than the whole movie. I will not watch the second movie.

Note: Not that it genuinely matters, but the follow contains spoilers for the entire film.Mac & Devin go to High School is a truly remarkable human achievement. Never before have I seen a collective group of human beings manage to take nearly half a million dollars and somehow transform that into some of the worst 75 minutes in cinematic history, looking cheaper and more amateur than many budgetless shorts I've seen on youtube. You'd also think that a film made by musicians wouldn't contain at least 7 royalty-free midi sound files populating the supposed "soundtrack", but it simply serves as testament to how absolutely little anybody working on this project gave a f***.Starring in the film are rappers Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg playing himself, but essentially as a creepy 35 year old man still in high school, and Wiz Khalifa playing as a "stuck-up" nerd, suspiciously wearing a long sleeved, button down shirt for most of the film to hide his tattoos. Andy Milonakis also makes a cameo appearance as a wheelchair bound, fart sucking cripple, proving that it is actually physically possible for a human being to sink lower than rock bottom.The viewer is immediately greeted by a talking, time-traveling CGI joint from 1996, possibly once a banana on a stock model website, recolored white and given eyes and a mouth. He informs the viewer that it is near mandatory to watch this film while under the influence of marijuana, suggesting a parallel between seeing it uninebriated and watching a 3D film without the glasses. This should be the first warning sign to any rational human being to proceed no further, the fact that the writers are literally admitting that you have to be mentally stunted to appreciate the film's attempts at humor.I understand that this is a "stoner" film, as begrudgingly I am to acknowledge that as a genre, but even a film like Half Baked doesn't required one to forcibly drop their IQ to appreciate at least a portion of the film's humor."So what?" you might, suggest. "It is just a crappy stoner comedy. It isn't trying to act like anything more." and I would completely agree with this sentiment if the film wasn't such a bitter, morally reprehensible affair.A supportive girlfriend who dares suggest that she wishes for her Valedictorian boyfriend, the film's main character played by Khalifa, to attend Yale after finishing school is mocked as a "controlling b****". Snoop Dogg, on his 15th year of high school, manipulates the main character into consuming a cannabis brownie, transforms him into a lowlife hood, and decks him out in full body and face tattoos, (say goodbye to Ivy League or an actual job for that matter)and we are supposed to like and support both of these characters. Late in the film, Khalifa's girlfriend is shocked and dismayed at her Valedictorian boyfriend's new appearance and lifestyle (man, what a controlling b****) and in retaliation, our courageous protagonist cheats on her by having sex with a hooker.After both get arrested, I suddenly start to think "maybe the makers of this film aren't complete sociopaths at all. Maybe we'll see our protagonist realize his fall from grace and try to redeem himself." Nope. They both get out of jail and neither face any consequences for their actions. Khalifa graduates valedictorian, rapping a song instead of giving a speech, his girlfriend falls for him once again, and Snoop Dogg cheats on a math test, finally graduating from high school and banging a substitute teacher who for some reason spends the whole movie in revealing dresses= and heavy makeup.The film then returns to our CGI banana joint friend, who so eloquently enthralls the viewer with the film's thesis. "A lot of totally smart people smoke weed and it gives them inspiration and stuff. So it totally shouldn't be illegal, man," If this film is supposed to be exemplary of the intelligence level of the average marijuana user, I can only hope it stays illegal for a very, very long time.