Customer Reviews

High Times' Potluck

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

When my husband rented this movie, I was skeptical. After watching it, I had to add it to my DVD collection. The movie revolves around a briefcase of pot with 'bad karma' that no one can seem to get rid of. As the story unfolds, many different people are intertwined and cross each others' paths (including an artist, a she-male, a chick band, pot dealers, the FBI, and the mob) until it all comes together at the end. I LOVE movies like that! So, you can smoke a doobie and watch it for the pot references, or just pop it in the player and watch a comical movie with a funny/happy ending. I LOVE it when everything works out in the end.

For fans of The Lunachicks, this movie features that band along with a lead role by sexy tattoo-covered singer Theo Kogan. Jason Mewes has a VERY SMALL part, so fans be warned! The story revolves around a briefcase of pot that is stolen and falls into the hands of several different New York City characters (dealers, mobsters, stoners and musicians). The main reason to see this movie would be Theo Kogan, as she shines in this one. And as for the reviewer who compares the amazing film Excalibur to Pot Luck and Flash Gordon? What!!? Flash Gordon was campy fun. John Boorman's 4 star Excalibur is a beautiful, stunning film that I find more entertaining than any of the 3 Lord Of The Rings. A classic in every sense (and the reviews were almost all stellar when it was originally released). I am truly baffled!

This movie is horrible, the acting is contrived, the plot is looser than a crack (...), and there is enough cliche in this movie to make it an afterschool special. I don't know anyone who smokes and uses the word dude four or five times in a sentence. Why would high times use such cop out dialog? Were they making this movie for Pat Roberts or Tucker Carlson. High Times should be ashamed. Comedy is one thing, but this is as far from comedy as CURSED is from a horror film. Anyone who saw this pile of steaming crap will know what I am talking about. Not really too much to say about this film, except that just because a movie has pot in it certainly does not make it underground or cool. This movie is as underground and cool as Richard Nixon's meeting with Elvis.

This is a pretty bad movie. Suitable for Grade 12 viewers / stoners. Not extremely well made (the dialogue is buried a lot of the time) or well plotted (very contrived and silly storyline). There are no funny characters that make the movie watchable despite its awfulness (like in Little Nicky). The ending, while better than the ending for 'Mars Attacks' is still cheesy in the extreme.

I am a self-confessed fiend for the work of the transcendent actor Jason Isaacs. It's a shame his work is so frequently book-ended by this kind of dreck.

I wish I could comment cogently on the content of this movie, but the production values were so egregious and the transfer quality--and this was a movie that went straight to DVD--so poor that I have no idea what the "plot" was. The dialogue is virtually unintelligible because the soundtrack audio is so muddy, the camerawork inept, the lighting unprofessional...I could go on and on, as I believe this movie did, but I will do as I did when viewing it and stop early.
I'm sorry, Jason--and I bet you are too.

I saw this movie when it was released theatrically . It is great. It has Jay from Jay and Silent Bob. It is really frikin funny too. I would recommend this title to anybody that has any sense of humour at all!!!

There are some movies that are bad in a funny kind of way. Like the 1980's classic "Flash Gordon," for example. Or the movie "Excalibur" from the same era. Campy bad. Spoofy bad. Big bowl of popcorn and a friend to laugh with bad.

Then there are movies that are bad in a souless, sad, crappy, make-you-want-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-head just-so-you-won't-have-to-remember-having-seen-it kind of way. This sad, pathetic and oh so very bad excuse for a "film" falls firmly into this second category.

The title song says, "I wanna be a hippie and smoke marijuana." They got the second part right. But hippies? These people aren't hippies. Hippies read Jack Kerouac and listen to Jerry Garcia and Bob Marley singing about social justice and spiritual development. Hippies dig Bob Dylan and crystals and energy and Jesus and they are about peace and love and making the world a safer place for children. Hippies like playing guitars in the park in the sunshine, making love in the woods and meeting new people in an environment of heightened awareness and expanding consciousness.

These people aren't hippies. These people are the marijuana equivalent of winos. They are crude, illiterate, ignorant, anti-social, monosyllabic junkies. As far as I can tell, the only thing they're contributing to the world is their excrement and dirty bong water. There might be a name for what these people are, but they aren't hippies.

And this isn't a movie. It's garbage.

OK - maybe I haven't watched this yet, but it was filmed in Berks County, PA - around Kutztown, and my Ex-girlfriend's late father has a bit part in the movie...

This may be written for a 12 year old, but I am sure it is entertaining... I mean, I'll never get that 90 minutes back from watching "Coyote Ugly" - but I sat through that...