Amazon.com: Cannabis comedy doesn't get more juvenile than this pro-pot goof about three stoners who come to the rescue of a fourth buddy when he's arrested for feeding a lethal dose of junk food to a diabetic police horse. Kenny (Harland Williams) is sent to jail, and to rescue him from the almost inevitable trauma of homosexual rape (giving you some idea of this movie's level of humor), his buddies set out to raise his $100,000 bail by selling high-grade weed ripped off from a pharmaceutical research lab. That's about it for the plot; the rest of the movie's a parade of marijuana jokes and amusing pot-friendly cameos by the likes of Snoop Dog, Willie Nelson, and Janeane Garofalo. As two of the bong-hitting buddies, Jim Breuer (from Saturday Night Live) and comedian Dave Chappelle do their best to disguise the movie's lack of inspiration. But no matter how hard they try to milk laughs from the one-joke premise, they can't stop the movie's title from being an apt description of the movie itself. --Jeff Shannon
Get Lifted The first time I ever saw this film was about 3 or 4 years ago. I had heard many numerous references to this film, but never really got around to watching this film. One day, in the BX, I saw this and decided to pick it up. The movie itself is pretty good. It has a decent storyline and some pretty good cameo's to make it a notch above the current dime a dozen mainstream movie out there. (Meet the Spartans, The Comebacks, etc) My main gripe about this movie is it seemed too short and it went into the storyline rather quickly. If it were any other way though, it probably wouldn't be the movie it is now, and it would run the risk of being drawn out and over done. The storyline, as we all know, is about 4 people who live together, one works at a music store, one is a custodian, or a janitor... one works at a fast food joint, and one is a kindergarten teacher, which scares me because he's a weedhead and all, but he was doing the best out of all of them, AND the guy on the couch until he went to grab munchies, fed a horse, and not just ANY horse- he was an officer of the law! And ended up in prison. They raise money to bail Kenny out of jail, where Thurgood meets Mary Jane on one of their visits. Ultimately, They fall in love and he kicks the habit. Half Baked in a nutshell. This movie is memorable, and the characters and the lines from the movie are good, but not great. If you can remember the scenes and the lines and laugh along with the movie, cool. This movie is a little nostalgic for me and always brings me a laugh when I need it. So, when I need to get lifted, I look no further. Hope this review helps you.
Always a good choice. This movie is one of my favorites because it is just like gettin stoned as a stoner i can relate totally and it reminds me of my younger days.
There are better stoner comedys. Half-baked always seemed to me to be a movie about weed, by people who know nothing about weed. I know it is a movie and it is fictional but hallucinating that you are flying from smoking marijuana, expecially from swaggy government weed is so far from reality it is not even funny. I hate it when movies and TV shows depict the effects of marijuana as if it is a PCP trip or something. It is just a pet peeve of mine because it sets the law reform movement way back because idiots who believe what they see on TV, think marijuana makes people see elves and unicorns.
I have to admit the films does have some clever stoner puns and is very quoteable, "wesley pipes", "billy bong thorton" and Bob Saget's cameo line. Yet it does not make up for the rest of the movie being so cartoonishly fake. That is just my two cents.
Half Baked - Fully Cooked on HD Besides being a pretty funny movie, I was totally impressed with the video quality of this HD DVD. This film is full of great colors, from the tie die shirts to background images of the guys' apartment. It produced some gorgeous images on my 1080p plasma. If you have an HD DVD player, might as well grab a copy while you can!
Freshly Baked This movie has a good view on what smoking the reefer is intended for. It wants you to enjoy your high, while not going over bourd with higher drugs. It plays as a comedy to try to get people to laugh,and accept that marijuana is a commonly used item in America's droor today. It does make a good point as to some people shouldn't smoke weed! If you pay close attention, and watch it for what is secretly writen, then you will know how to properly use marijuana, and laugh. More than anything, enjoy yourselves, and don't take this movie too literally. You can't really get bonded out of jail for 10 percent of one million dollars, and everything will be ok. That's just to get out before a trial, then you will be sentenced after the trial, and there's no buying your way out of that. So don't feed the horse is what I am trying to say!
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