Really, how can you hate a movie with a flying dog?
The answer you can?t. You also can?t hate a movie that?s as funny and blissfully stupid as Half Baked, the 1998 pot comedy written by Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan (the two guys behind Chappelle?s Show) and directed by Tamra Davis.
The plot focuses on three NYC pothead friends (Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz, and Jim Breuer), who turn to dealing drugs after their friend and roommate (Harland Williams) is arrested for accidentally killing a police horse. While the trio is selling pharmaceutical marijuana to raise the bail money, Chappelle has to hide the fact from his straight edge girlfriend (Rachel True).
The movie is helped by Brennan and Chappelle?s attempts to amuse you at any cost, regardless of how stupid or juvenile it may be. You have to admire that kind of effort, especially when it yields to such gems as Williams? prison woes (?I can last 5? 6:30 p.m.?), the friends? attempt to steal more marijuana (with Diaz looking like Larenz Tate from Dead Presidents), and TV dad Bob Saget?s admission to how he got cocaine.
Also in the movie?s favor is its short length ? 85 minutes ? which is just enough time before the pot humor loses its buzz, and lots of effective cameos (Jon Stewart, Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg). A big debit against the movie is Breuer, who is just plain annoying as the hippie stoner. How did this guy last three seasons on Saturday Night Live?
Half Baked is bound to find a new audience with the massive popularity of Chappelle?s Show, and that?s good. Maybe Sir Smoke-a-Lot, the fidgety, pot-addled rapper played by Chappelle in the movie, can find a home on his show alongside Tyrone the Crackhead.
Okay. I was pretty fucking high and I still failed to see the humour in this film. Except for when Harland Williams became Chong's bitch though. *dies*
Great piece of cinema. JK. It's just one of those cult classic movies that has so many lines to remember. It is a movie you can watch about ten times in one weekend and still get a laugh on the 10th setting.
Pot head humor at it's best.Reminds me of the old CHEECH AND CHONG movies of yester year. Dave Chappel is at the top of his game in this crazy comedy. So gather the munchies and smoke em if you got em.Just have a friend near by in case you choke on some munchies from laughing so hard.
"You son of a bitch! I'm right behind you. Turn around and ask me for heffer with cheese! Why you gotta make me feel inferior 'cause I'm on the grill b? DAMN!"
The funniest pot comedy of 1997, Half Baked restarted the genre of the old Cheech and Chong movies, as Dave Chapelle and his buddies try to get out of trouble after their stoned friend accidentally kills a police horse with diabetes in feeding it. Whoa. Funny story though. Lots of good times. Better than Dazen and Confused.
A must see for Dave Chappelle (and Steven Wright) fans. It's funny and doesn't pretend to be a masterpiece. Some very good scenes and characters like Sir Smoke A lot make this a fun ride. Look thru the end credits for an announcement by the cast...
Dave Chappelle is great. One of the best stoner movies ever. I mean they had Danny Tanner from full house (Bob Sagat) saying "You ever suck dick for weed..." Classic.
Dumb stoner movie. For some reason I have a soft spot for Stoner movies. Funny, Dave Chappelle, weed, diabetic horses. It's a good time that doesn't pretend to be something it's not.
The Guy on the Couch: Hey, is it January? Thurgood Jenkins: No, it's August. The Guy on the Couch: Really? ----------------------------------- Brian: Get some sour cream and onion chips with some dip, man, some beef jerky, some peanut butter. Get some Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars, a whole lot, make sure chocolate, gotta have chocolate, man. Some popcorn, red popcorn, graham crackers, graham crackers with marshmallows, the little marshmallows and little chocolate bars and we can make s'mores, man. Also, celery, grape jelly, Cap'n Crunch with the little Crunch berries, pizzas. We need two big pizzas, man, everything on 'em, with water, whole lotta water, and Funyons. Kenny: That's it? Thurgood Jenkins: Yeah, get me a box of condoms, and, what was that thing we used to eat back in the day? What was it... oh yeah, pussy. Kenny: You got it.
Although I did find this movie somewhat funny (as I was forced to watch it everyday for about 2 months), I still can't make myself give it more than two and a half stars.
What the fuck is with Flixster's synopsis? "It's dopey time, again, in this pat-addled buddy movie that will scare you straight with its lack of humor." This does not make sense, Flixster!
Ha now this is a druggie comedy that made me laugh a lot. Some daft bits that make u cringe but a lot of LOL moments too. The characters are what u expect and they are people u wish u knew. BUTTERCUP!!!
Dave Chappelle is my favourite comedian, hands down. His multi-role playing and the music videos he did as that rapper were hysterical and I haven't laughed so hard at a movie for awhile.
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