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How High
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29 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 21 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 21
  3. Negative: 12 out of 21
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  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    63
    Enough low-grade laughs to entertain significantly more than some of the more prestigious year-end releases.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    60
    There's a spirit of generosity to How High that allows many performers to shine beyond its sharp and amiable stars.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    58
    Enough cheery mockery to amuse even non-tokers.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert K. Elder
    50
    Like Ice Cube's "Friday," How High probably will survive as an underground classic, until it's pushed further underground and forgotten by the next disposable "cult classic" to hit video.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    Dylan's stoner comedy barely manages to string together a story, but lucky for him, his two stars radiate charisma even when they're hidden behind clouds of smoke.
  6. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    50
    The Observer won't let me get stoned before a review, so I'll never know what How High would be like after a big fat blunt. Without one, it's sloppy, broadly funny in spots and chaotic.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Steve Simels
    40
    It's a good thing the two rappers are such utterly natural actors, armed with terrific comic timing.
  8. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    40
    There is something fun about a movie that so brazenly portrays excessive pot smoking.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    40
    A genially haphazard but frequently amusing neo-stoner comedy that plays like "Cheech and Chong Go to Animal House."
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  10. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Charles Savage
    38
    How High is not a particularly good movie, but then again it's not trying to be. It's a project by two B-list rappers seeking to extend their music careers in the way of stars like Will Smith, Ice Cube and Tupac Shakur.
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  11. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Joan Anderman
    38
    The biggest problem, ironically, is that even though the plot and the action center on smoking pot, it's not enough of a stoner flick. The concept of getting stoned isn't amusing; watching stoned people is.
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  12. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    38
    Method Man and Redman just don't have the comic timing to pull off 90 minutes at front-and-center.
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  13. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    30
    Too lazy to be a comedy, too conventional to be a head movie.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    Many of the faces that emerge through the murk appear bug-eyed. And much of the dialogue, which is frequently shouted, is only semi-intelligible.
  15. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    This mess was directed with no skill whatsoever by Jesse Dylan, whose father, Bob, once urged us all to get stoned.
  16. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    25
    Doesn't look like a movie somebody made. It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen.
  17. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Ellen Kim
    25
    Unfortunately, this low-lowbrow comedy, which tries to pass itself off as a "Friday" crossed with "Legally Blonde," also does nothing to distinguish itself from recent urban flops "The Wash" and "Pootie Tang."
  18. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Heather Wadowski
    20
    While How High could have been a fun comedy college students could watch over and over again, it instead plays like a bad USA movie of the week. The jokes aren't funny, the characters aren't fully developed and poor editing only makes a humorless story confusing.
  19. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    20
    The drug-fueled romp turns ugly, sexist and misogynistic, as so many rap-star vehicles do.
  20. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    11
    Meets the required minimum dosage of feature-film attributes, and then nods out when it comes to going any further.
  21. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    0
    Just when it looked like "Not Another Teen Movie" might claim the crap crown comes this stoner's tale.
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User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 58 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 36
  3. Negative: 3 out of 36
  1. Layne
    0
    Pure, unmitigated crap. If you actually find any of this funny then you are so simple minded you may well be retarded. You'd have to be on crack, never mind weed, to even force a smile at any part of this painfully unfunny disaster of a comedy movie. It starts off bad, and actually somehow manages to get worse as it goes on. Method Man and Redman should stick to what they do best - whatever that is.… Full Review »
  2. RexG.
    4
    Being Wu-Tang listener myself I appreciate their music a lot - that does not have to mean that I also dig their performance in front of the camera - 'cause acting and making hip-hop music are two different professions. In my opinion the movie does indeed have its funny scenes, but the longer the movie runs the more boring it becomes. Sure when you're stoned the movie is great but once you watch it, when you stopped smoking weed, you notice that much of the jokes are just childish. Smoking weed is no culture... It's an addiction - no more no less. We should not forget that when watching that movie. 4 points for the funny scenes.… Full Review »
  3. Jazzyjeff1er
    9
    Pimpin scince been pimpin scince been pimpin!!!
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