Product Details

• Actors: Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams, Rachel True
• Directors: Tamra Davis
• Writers: Dave Chappelle, Neal Brennan
• Producers: Dave Chappelle, Ira Shuman, Julia Dray, Rita Smith, Robert Simonds
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Pictures
• VHS Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (207 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0783225261
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,089 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Cannabis comedy doesn't get more juvenile than this pro-pot goof about three stoners who come to the rescue of a fourth buddy when he's arrested for feeding a lethal dose of junk food to a diabetic police horse. Kenny (Harland Williams) is sent to jail, and to rescue him from the almost inevitable trauma of homosexual rape (giving you some idea of this movie's level of humor), his buddies set out to raise his $100,000 bail by selling high-grade weed ripped off from a pharmaceutical research lab. That's about it for the plot; the rest of the movie's a parade of marijuana jokes and amusing pot-friendly cameos by the likes of Snoop Dog, Willie Nelson, and Janeane Garofalo. As two of the bong-hitting buddies, Jim Breuer (from Saturday Night Live) and comedian Dave Chappelle do their best to disguise the movie's lack of inspiration. But no matter how hard they try to milk laughs from the one-joke premise, they can't stop the movie's title from being an apt description of the movie itself. -- Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars lllllloooveeeee it., March 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Half Baked [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Put on a smiley face!, February 16, 2005

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Michael Stouffer (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Half Baked (Widescreen Special Edition) (DVD)

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.

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Samson Gets Me Lifted, September 10, 2004

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J. Brittman "The Bottom Line" (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Half Baked (DVD)

(...)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!