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How High (2001)

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Reviews Counted:56

Fresh:15

Rotten:41

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: How High is a sloppily constructed stoner movie filled with lame, vulgar jokes.

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: HOW HIGH is a raucous comedy about two underachieving potheads from the projects, Cyrus and Jamal (rappers Method Man and Redman), who, through bizarre circumstances, end up attending Harvard... HOW HIGH is a raucous comedy about two underachieving potheads from the projects, Cyrus and Jamal (rappers Method Man and Redman), who, through bizarre circumstances, end up attending Harvard University. It all begins when Cyrus' friend Ivory dies, and Cyrus uses his ashes as fertilizer to grow marijuana. When the two are taking their college entrance exams, Jamal explains his philosophy: Study high. Take the test high. Get high scores. Smoking Cyrus' magical weed somehow summons the ghost of the brainy Ivory, who gives them all the answers to the exam. They are recruited by Chancellor Huntley (Fred Willard) to attend Harvard, where they use the weed to continue their academic success, but thanks to the machinations of the uptight Dean Cain (Obba Babatunde), they soon find themselves without Ivory's help, and are forced to maintain their scholarship grades on their own. The plot reaches its peak of comic ludicrousness when the hapless duo attempts to dig up and smoke the remains of John Quincy Adams. HOW HIGH features Mike Epps, Tracy Morgan, and Spalding Gray in supporting roles. The film is scabrously funny and refreshingly free of logic, reason, and political correctness. [More]

Starring: Method Man, Redman, Obba Babatunde, Mike Epps

Starring: Method Man, Redman, Obba Babatunde, Mike Epps, Anna Maria Horsford, Spalding Gray, Jeffrey Jones, Hector Elizondo, Lark Voorhies, Fred Willard, Alan Shearer, Tracy Morgan

Director: Jesse Dylan

Director: Jesse Dylan
Screenwriter: Dustin Lee Abraham, Brad Kaaya
Producer: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, James Ellis
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Mark Halverson

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Sacramento News & Review

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1/5

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 06 2005 07:41 PM

Film Threat

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1/5

Heather Wadowski

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 08 2002 08:23 AM

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3/5

Guylaine Cadorette

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 19 2002 08:16 AM

Hollywood.com

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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1.5/4

James Kendrick

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 13 2002 08:14 AM

Q Network Film Desk

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0/4

Jonathan R. Perry

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 10 2002 06:28 PM

Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

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Scott Weinberg

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 27 2002 02:51 PM

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Walter Chaw

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 11 2002 08:42 PM

Film Freak Central

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Ellen Kim

You've seen it before.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 03 2002 08:13 AM

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 24 2002 08:12 AM

Boston Phoenix

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1.5/4

Frank Ochieng

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!

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 04 2002 08:12 AM

Movie Eye

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

Can they go any lower?

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 04 2002 08:12 AM

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3/5

Adam Nayman

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 06 2002 08:11 AM

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Michael O'Sullivan

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 06 2002 08:11 AM

Washington Post

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Michael Dequina

Less outrageous than simply desperate.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 03 2002 04:06 AM

TheMovieReport.com

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Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 30 2001 08:11 AM

Austin Chronicle

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Joe Baltake

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Sacramento Bee

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Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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Susan Stark

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