Critic Reviews

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  Despite the comedy's reliance on drug humor, first-time director Jesse Dylan is actually less interested in getting high than in seeing how low he can go.

• Joe Leydon, Variety

  Maintains a consistent level of a swaggering, semi-anarchic silliness reminiscent of '70s youth-skewing comedies.

• Jessica Winter, Village Voice

  Too lazy to be a comedy, too conventional to be a head movie.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  Features a fine mix of several generations of comic talent plus a terrific soundtrack from its stars.

• Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle

  How High doesn't look like a movie somebody made. It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen.

• Gene Seymour, Newsday

  Sample what you want. Doze through the rest.

• Heather Wadowski, Film Threat

  The jokes aren't funny, the characters aren't fully developed and poor editing only makes a humorless story confusing.

• James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk

  Silly, sloppy, and liberated from any sense of pacing or plot

• Jonathan R. Perry, Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

  Sinfully tasteless cinema was everywhere in 2001 - but this movie is so bad it's Freudian.

• Scott Weinberg, Apollo Guide

  As it stands, a movie like How High does nothing more than perpetuate the belief that marijuana is enjoyed solely by idiots.

• Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

  Not all the gags work, not all the gross-outs serve the greater good, but How High is funny, quick, and the very definition of a pleasant surprise.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  If at all possible, How High's pristine transfer to DVD may actually work against the film's ganja-stoked visual palette.

• Ellen Kim, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  You've seen it before.

• Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye

  This is one clumsy cannabis comedy that couldn't give the late Timothy Leary a natural high worth experiencing! Nip this "joint" session in the bud!

• Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel, 3BlackChicks Review

  Can they go any lower?

• Adam Nayman, eye WEEKLY

  For better or for worse, How High knows what its audience wants and serves it to them, straight up, without any sort of moral or ethical chaser.

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  Less outrageous than simply desperate.

• Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle

  Feebly crafted in virtually every way imaginable -- directing, cinematography, acting, scriptwriting.

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