Half Baked dvd movie.|
Half Baked buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices |
 |
List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • Full Screen • Special Edition • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 16 January, 1998 DVD Release : 15 February, 2005 |
| [ + Zoom ] [ Buy Now ] | DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
Half Baked description 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 |
|
|
| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Mostly hilarious |
| The biggest problem with this film is the narrative revolving around Chappelle and the female love interest. I don't mean to sound malicious, but the actress can't act... at all. Enough that I consider her wholly unattractive, and enough that, sadly, it brings down Half Baked quite a bit 'cause there is just too much god forsaken time devoted to her.
The rest of the movie is a riot. All four of these guys are hugely entertaining and funny. Their characters are exaggerated stereotypes but they all hit them perfectly. When Breuer starts rattling off all the food he wants his roomate Harland Williams to get after they've all hit billy bong thorton, and it pans to Guillermo DA A az blankly staring at nothing, smiling... it reminds one of the idiotic (but joyful) state of being high (and this is certainly not the only state the good plant is able to produce). People might pass off the acting in this movie but I really find it to be subtle and really nuanced... All four of them are excellent; I don't think one actor rises above the others. From what I can tell it looks like there was a lot of smoking on the set, and really I think that's one of the reasons the film comes across as authentic... it IS a half-baked, lazy movie that was made for their own enjoyment and that's where I find it to be so endearing... It IS fun. The film isn't neccessarily pro-marijuana in that its characters are all pretty much slackers and not particularly admirable... Most of the time they are simply moronic. But simultaneously they are totally charming and loveable, and I think personally this gives the film a sort of "harmless" attitude towards the drug. Anyway though I really don't think politics were on the minds of any of these guys when filming, and that's why I can rewatch the damn thing over and over. I am tempted to drop the score one but I like the film too much. The temptation comes from the copout ending... A movie this stonerfied shouldn't have the main character ditching the drug for a pathetic love interest as occurs at the end. And in Chappelle's transition to sobriety there are a few moments that kinda irked me, one which follows Breuer's uproarious story about Killer the dog. "I didn't think I could say this, but you guys smoke entirely too much refer.".. says Chappelle. Dunno -- rubbed me the wrong way. But ANY WAY... this is some second-hand smoke that actually intoxicates and usually makes me laugh like a little child for two hours. |
|
|