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Summary: MethodMan for short Mr...
Review: I have listened to Wu-Tang Clan since their brilliant first album and have all their albums since and got my wu wear, so natural I rented this film when I saw it at the video store out of curiosity to see what Method Man would be like in a movie.... I was totaly blown away though by how high, it was sooooo funny and although to a certain extent it had the tired old plotline, it was still so fresh and full of energy that it is easily the best comedy I have seen in recent memory. The characters played by Method Man and Redman aren't reduced to typical black stereo types and also it's really great that Method Man's charater has intelligence and integraty, I'm sure that anyone like me who listens to his music and respect the talent would hate it if he appeared as a mindless one dimentional joke on screen. I laughed at every joke in the movie and laughted hard. I found the humor to have more in common with good classic stoner comedies like Cheech & Chong, than any of the Chris Rock/Tucker type of flicks. And when I watched it the next day it was just as funny. This is the kind of comedy I hope to see more of in future, it really stands out from the other ... out there. If Method Man and Redman aren't enough, Cypress Hill (the only other rap group I like as much as Wu-Tang) also make an appearance.
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Summary: HoW HiGh
Review: "How High" generates considerable hilarity when it turns loose rappers Method Man and Redman on an unsuspecting Harvard University.
The way they get there is pretty funny in this raunchy, good-natured comedy from Universal. Written by Dustin Lee Abraham and directed by Jesse Dylan, it features a fine mix of several generations of comic talent plus a terrific soundtrack from its stars. It blends tracks old and new and features cuts from and pairings with other hip-hop artists, which are in turn incorporated into Rockwilder's lively score.
Method Man's Silas is content to make his living as the medicine man of his Staten Island neighborhood with his herbal brews, caring for his elderly father and spending his money on hookers. He pays no attention to his best friend Ivory (Chuck Davis) urging him to try for medical school until Ivory meets with a freaky fatal accident. To honor his friend's memory, Silas plants some seeds with Ivory's cremated remains, which yield a lush plant with outsized buds. He dutifully decides to submit to a college entrance exam as well.
Meanwhile, over in New Jersey, Redman's Jamal, after six years of goofing off in junior college, is at last expelled. Jamal's fed-up mother (Anna Maria Horsford, in a gem of a comic turn) points to the pictures of her older son and daughter on her living room wall and reminds him that at least his brother earned a certificate as a trained barber in prison, where he's still doing time, and his sister holds a diploma in weaving hair.
"Six years in junior college was not what I had in mind for you," she says irately. The prospect of being thrown out propels him to the testing center, where he meets Jamal and shares some smokes derived from those "Ivory" buds, only to have the white-suited Ivory emerge from the haze, promising to supply the answers to the exam they have scant hope of passing. (The aura of old Cheech and Chong pothead movies is as strong as a contact high.) Perfect scores zoom the new friends to Harvard, purportedly lacking in multicultural diversity, where Ivory continues to materialize to help out on tests.
Chasing girls and having fun are Silas and Jamal's top priorities, and as broad as this comedy gets, there's a satirical edge in the clash between the duo's brash style and academic pomposity. They immediately run afoul of the dean (Obba Babatunde), a smug figure of propriety. The casting of the actress who plays the dean's wife--Melissa Peterman, as good a sport as Babatunde--is surely intended to bring to mind an image of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, so similar-looking are the two couples. The dean makes it clear that, in his view, Silas and Jamal are disreputable types he intends to send back to the ghetto--that's his word, and he utters it with undisguised disdain.
Meanwhile, Silas is taken with Lauren (Lark Voorhies), with whom he shares a class in botany, while Jamal is bowled over by Jamie (Essence Atkins), the daughter of the vice president (Jeffrey Jones), not of Harvard, but of the United States of America. Silas and Jamal's search for a good time culminates in a wild Halloween dorm party complete with pimps and hookers.
But what's to happen to them when they run out of those special "Ivory" buds? Could it be that they would have to buckle down and study? "How High" is careful to make it perfectly clear that, like students of every possible background, they have what it takes if only they apply themselves.
The Harvard University of this film is so much a fantasy that it matters not at all that UCLA is standing in for it; the difference in architecture and age of the two institutions is so radical that even the color of the bricks of their buildings differs in hue. "How High" is not really about college life, other than its nearly subliminal nudge about the value of higher learning.
Although "How High" begins to run out of inspiration before it's over, it manages to take some jabs at the hypocrisy and condescension of the snobby academic and social ruling classes and, in turn, at whites who feel compelled to assume blacker-than-black attitudes in communicating with African Americans instead of simply being themselves.
There's a spirit of generosity to "How High" that allows many performers to shine beyond its sharp and amiable stars. They range from such veterans as Spalding Gray, Hector Elizondo, Tracey Walter and Fred Willard to younger comedians like Davis (who's so sly it's a good thing that his Ivory returns as a ghost), Chris Elwood, Dennison Samaroo, Al Shearer, T.J. Thyne, Justin Urich, Trieu Tran and, above all, Mike Epps as the endlessly comical pimp Baby Powder and Scruncho as his put-upon assistant, Baby Wipe.
That what is often described euphemistically as an "urban" comedy such as "How High" should turn up amid a clutch of prestigious year-end Oscar contenders is downright subversive--and pleasingly so.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: I realize this is a stoner movie. There is nothing wrong with stoner movies when they're done well. Thing is, this one wasn't done well. The deadly combination of terrible writing AND directing give Method Man and Redman absolutely no hope to succeed. If you want to see a good stoner movie, watch Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back. It's both funny and smart - something this movie is not.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This was one of the most funniest movies of 2001.It is hilarious from beggining to end.Forget what those movie critics tell you.They would'nt know a good movie if it punched them in the face.Watch this movie.You will bust out laughing.
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Summary: IMMATURE AND HILARIOUS
Review: Well you may call me immature, but i personally dont care. This movie was hilarious. It was full of crude "guy" humour. Truly it was hilarious, but dont let small children within about six miles of it. Put it in your dvd player and laugh until u become sick.
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Summary: How High
Review: When I was a child I used to watch The Three Stooges. I think Red Man and Method are even funnier. I would say about every five minutes of the movie they were always into something. The music was great and it will keep you glued to your seat.
I think these two charters are the funniest charters of the century.
It is not for young children (like under 14 years)
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Summary: How High
Review: I thought the movie was great. I saw on pay per view and I could not get up it was so good and funny, the music was great hard rock and the music is easy to understand, it'a not just noise. I like it so much that I am going to purchase on vhs even though it's pretty high priced. I feel it want hurt to lean and purchase it because I have'nt spent alot on junk, etc. in months Also I have nothing else charged. As long as I am able to buy healthy food and other necessities I would love to buy it. I do not like dvd widescreen.
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Summary: Funny at first, but weak at the ending
Review: I hate movies that are good at first but gets weak at the ending, cuz they couldn't think o; somethin'. But Redn' Mef were funny at first, n' u know it if u watch da movie. But anyway, if u got [money], n u don't know whut to do wit it, n u ain't got this mpovie, go cop it!
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Summary: Red an Meth
Review: A movie about smoking weed ... flat out ... thats what this is. The movie has alot of good jokes and humerous situations. The acting is weak but ... oh well, it just makes it funnier. This movie is really good up untill the end where it just crosses a line between stoner humor, and wicked bizzare events. But all in all it is a good movie.
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Summary: Non-marijuana and non hip-hop fans-STAY AWAY!
Review: This outrageously ignorant comedy, about some guys who smoke the ashes of a dead friend and somehow get into Harvard, is not for people who are against drugs and are not fans of the current direction hip-hop has taken in recent years. Cheech and Chong in Blackface is a good way to sum it all up. Good Lord! If this is a representative of youth culture, I must be getting old! Pass the Geritol and turn up Lawrence Welk! The biz with Ben Franklin making a marijuana pipe and spouting hip-hop slang must be seen to be beleived, as well as the pimps who teach a class. But if you miss this, don't feel culturally deprived.
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