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Half Baked

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i love this movie so much. i mean, i've watch this movie so much coz i just can't stop laughing. i recommend this movie to everybody..even those who aren't potheads. trust me, you'll enjoy watching it.

I remember when this movie was first advertised. I thought it looked ridiculous and never bothered. Then I caught it on cable and was completely surprised. This movie ranks up there with the best rewatchable comedies of all time like Office Space, Caddyshack and The Big Lebowski. It has great characters, scenes, quotes and cameos. Dave Chapelle is halarious. I highly recommend this "fully baked" DVD to all comedy fans, not just stoners! The new edition features deleted scenes and an alternate ending. It was great to see some of the stuff that they cut out. I wish they would have left the additional Killer footage in. Too funny.

(...)Half Baked is Dave Chappelle's coming out party. This movie is friggin' hilarious. Based around 4 pothead buddies, one of which (Kenny aka Harland Williams) gets thrown in jail for killing a horse leaving Chappelle, Jim Breuer and Guillermo Diaz having to come up with 100 large to free their buddy. So how else would three stoners get the kind of money they need to free their friend? "Let's sell weed yo!" So Chappelle, Diaz and Breuer become "fundraisers" not drug dealers to get their friend away from the "naughty, naughty jungle of love". There are so many funny lines from this movie that I cannot even recall them all but definitely one of the best scenes is when Chappelle dresses up as Mr. Nice Guy and goes to see Sampson. "What part of Jamaica are you from?" Chappelle answers "Right near the beeeech...lord have mercy". Half Baked is pee your pants funny and without a doubt worth owning on dvd. It is one of the funniest movies of the past 15 years. Highest Recommendation. P.S. "Yo they were doin' karate man, they had nun-chucks, they be doin' indian burns man, i'm serious". Enjoy!

A hilarious movie for everyone who likes stoner/slacker movies, Bill & Ted's, Saturday Night Live, and offbeat comedy in general. Dave Chapelle and Jim Breuer are riotous, and the movie itself is pretty decent. There are some really funny lines in here and you can see a lot of that trademark Chapelle humor that he would later make famous on his Comedy Central show. You can read about the story elsewhere so I am going to talk about the DVD itself.

Commentaries and extras are a deciding factor for me when purchasing DVD's. Being called the "Fully Baked" edition, I had high expectations for this, but in terms of features, this DVD is only on par with current generation DVDs (commentaries, deleted scenes, featurettes).

The first problem is when you load the DVD, there's a smoking symbol and a non-smoking symbol to choose from, with no description of what they mean. Selecting either leads to the same features, with only the main background animation being different. Are they the director's cut and the theatrical release? I can't tell.

Lackluster commentary: Tamra Davis is completely dull! Of the more than 100 DVD's I own and dozens of other commentaries I have listened to on rented DVD's, I can't think of a more sleep-inducing commentary than hers. She is silent for long stretches of time and I spent as much time waiting for her to say something as I did listening to her talk. It is obvious she hadn't seen the film in years (something she even says at the beginning of the track), and she came totally unprepared to do the commentary recording.

Other directors are a treat to listen to and they talk the entire time, offering a lot of extra information about various things, like production difficulties, costs, whatever, just spontaneously as they watch the film again and comment on it. They don't just talk, they talk about interesting stuff. Davis is silent about half the time, and the things she does say when she opens her mouth are completely uninteresting.

crappy other features: The Granny's baking tips extra is dead unfunny. Don't even bother watching it. 5 Minutes With the Guy on the Couch is dead unfunny also, except maybe if you're trippin' balls. The deleted scenes (10 of them) are all strung together back to back, with no menu, selection screen, or any descriptions. The studio really skimped here. You have no idea what scene they are cut from. The guide to different types of smokers is just 4 or 5 short and crappy animations. Don't bother. All in all, an OK DVD with a standard treatment. Still worth it to own, but don't be fooled by the "Fully Baked" name. it doesn't deliver.

If you already own "Half Baked," don't waste your money on the "Fully Baked Edition" DVD, because the extras are a huge waste of time -- the added comedy bits are so poor it's embarrassing, like something high school kids would produce. The director commentary is also thoroughly uninteresting -- she just repeatedly says "That was funny." When you watch the deleted scenes, you'll say, "I see why they deleted that." There's nothing of value here.

Dave Chapelle had nothing to do with this edition -- he's not on the commentary track or in any of the bonus materials, nor are any other actors from the film.

Don't be confused -- I LOVE LOVE LOVE Half Baked -- and I HATED the extras on this DVD. Total waste of time and money, a big disappointment to Half Baked fans.

Sampson gets me lifted!

I'm a huge fan of half baked as I'm sure most people are. Hoping to receive more hilarious footage and outtakes of everyones favorite stoners I found myself buying the new edition of this dvd. How could you miss with a list of added features such as..

Five Minutes with the "The Guy on the Couch"
Different Types of Smokers
Granny's Guide to Bakin'

Well they missed big time. The guy on the couch.. some imitation rolling around for five minutes with a pillow covering his face as he rolled of the couch. Lame! Types of smokers.. animated and not even amusing. Granny's baking someone throwing a bunch of things in a pot like a cooking show. The whole thing was poorly produced. The only additional footage was things that they edited out of the film. ie originally they had Kenny calling Thurgood to do the whole scene in the movie where they visited him and tell him how they are going to get him out.

This is a pitiful attempt to turn a buck off of Half Baked's fan base. I want my money back.

This version is basically complete garbage as Dave Chappelle & Neal Brennan had absolutely nothing to do with its release. The extras are worthless. Who honestly gives a damn about Granny's recipes (something that wasn't mentioned in the movie), or 5 minutes with a fat guy sleeping on a couch that isn't Steven Wright. The extras & the Extras on The Jerk DVD that was released around the same time, are a complete embarrassment. Paramount should learn to give fans what they want, not make up new extra's with 0 context to the movie they are appearing on. This is as bad as the first season of Viva La Bam (which was censored, even though the packing said it was uncensored). You are much better off with the original copy of the DVD, as the deleted scenes on this one are incredibly grainy. It gets 3 stars because the movie is funny.

It's hard to write a review for a movie this funny, you don't want to give it away!

Basic synopsis: Four friends live in an apartment together: Thurgood (Dave Chappelle), Brian (Jim Breuer), Scarface (Guillermo Diaz), and Kenny (Harland Williams), they all get stoned one night and get the munchies, Kenny goes to the store to get food, and ends up "murdering" a police horse. The three remaining friends start an in-house drug syndicate called Mr. Nice Guy with medical marijuana stolen from Thurgood's office to raise $100,000 to bail Kenny out of jail. Needless to say, hilarity ensues. Lookout for cameos from a pre-Daily Show Jon Stewart (Enhancement Smoker), Janeane Garafalo (Creative Smoker), Snoop Dogg (Scavenger Smoker), and Willie Nelson (Hippie Smoker), they're hilarious! The drop-dead gorgeous Rachel True appears as Thurgood's non-smoking love interest aptly name Mary Jane and Clarence Williams III is Samson, the rival drug dealer with a pseudo-blaxplotative look.

If you haven't seen Half Baked, see it! If you have a sense of humor, you'll laugh until you cry!

Half Baked has to be one of the funniest movies around. Even if you are not a weed smoker, you can enjoy this movie. I think the big misconception here is that one must be a pot smoker to enjoy this movie and it is not true. The movie is about 3 friends trying to raise bail money for their friend who was arrested for feeding a diabetic police horse junk food which resulted in the horse dying. That right there is reason enough to see this movie. The characters are great and there are so many funny scenes in this movie. It's a must see...and if you still have doubts, watch the movie just to see the scene where Bob Saget (The dorky dad from Full House) says "I used to suck d*ck for coke."

The only way to really enjoy this video is to have a big old hit on 'Billy-Bong-Thorton'. This review is from all the boys in Sunny South Africa who had a klap of Fred's best wheat and loved this movie. It is dedicated to Nicky's flat, the Mavaliser, Dick's flat and Bennies balcony. Not forgetting Dumper boy.