Metacritic Film

War on the War on Drugs, The

Starring Tara Platt, Yuri Lowenthal, Joseph Greene, Brett Colby, Kenny Marshall, Susie Schwartz, Daniel J. Kornfeld, and Darren Fouse

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Spectacle Films
Comedy
87 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters June 24, 2005

This comedy parodies the U.S. government's anti-drug campaign.

WRITTEN BY
Cevin D. Soling

DIRECTED BY
Cevin D. Soling

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

23 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
The movie is 74 minutes of hilarious pro-drug vignettes, loosely strung together like a themed episode of "Saturday Night Live."
30 The Onion (A.V. Club)
Writer-director-producer-actor-composer-singer Soling claims to have spent a year researching the war on drugs before deciding to make a satire instead of a documentary, but he apparently threw most of his facts out the window in favor of absurdism, exaggeration, slander, and self-congratulatory humor.
30 TV Guide
Like so much dope humor, Soling's logic is fuzzy, and you'd have to be pretty high to find any of it funny.
25 New York Daily News
Seemingly made while writer-director-star Cevin Soling was heavily under the influence, this generally witless ode to illegal substances is apparently meant to be viewed that way, as well.
12 New York Post Kyle Smith
Strings together 60 amateurish short films to tell us drugs are cool, man.
0 Village Voice Peter L'Official
Ineptitude is so thorough here that War on . . . could only make sense as a sinister governmental smear campaign to justify the war on drugs and total sobriety.

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