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Half Baked
MCA/Universal Pictures


8.8

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MPAA RATING: R for pervasive drug content, language, nudity and sexual material

Starring David Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams, Rachel True, Clarence Williams III, Laura Silverman, and Tommy Chong

An adventure of three potheads trying to find cash to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan to steal and sell medicinal-grade marijuana, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke!

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	David Chappelle Neal Brennan
DIRECTED BY:	Tamra Davis
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: February 15, 2005 Video: June 30, 1998 Theatrical: January 16, 1998
RUNNING TIME:	82 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

I kind of liked this slow, stoner comedy.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Reefer mildness.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The plot is simply an excuse for a string of good-natured dope jokes (come on -- you have to love that their hookah is called Billy Bong Thornton) and goofy sight gags inspired by everything from Jerry Garcia to Jerry Maguire, most of which are undoubtedly funniest if you're eight miles high.

Entertainment Weekly Michael Sauter

Sitting on your couch watching these morons sit on their couch and get wasted is like being the only straight guest at a pot party. Everyone else is laughing, and you're left wondering why.

Variety Brendan Kelly

A couple of hash brownies short of a satisfying cinematic picnic, with far too few comic highs during the bigscreen reefer party.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

The main problem, however, is Tamra Davis' leaden direction, which prevents Half-Baked from developing comic momentum. There are a few scattered laughs.

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

But their comic talents are completely wasted by an inane script whose idea of humor is to make jokes about lung cancer and the notorious Tuskegee experiment on black men with syphilis. [20 Jan 1998]

Austin Chronicle Russell Smith

The humor in this movie is basically anthropological notes on doper culture and behavior: junk-food frenzies, smoking rituals and hardware, non sequitur conversation, and short-term memory loss. In other words, stuff that passed into the realm of cliché back in the time of the Johnson administration.

Film Threat Ron Wells

The title refers to your expected condition when you see this movie. Oh well. It'll be HUGE on video.

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

The film's deadly lulls outweigh its infrequent highs.

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

Not very funny, intellignet or grippingly plotted, it is likely to appeal only to those who think that anything to do with marijuana - smoking, sharing, stealing or selling - constitutes the Everest of rip-roaring hilarity. [17 Jan 1998]

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Someone definitely inhaled too much before making this one.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Paying homage to drug comedies of the '70s, Half Baked is high on getting high and low on laughs.

Los Angeles Times Bob Heisler

A limp, predictable less-than-sitcom of a movie. It's a bomb, man, not the bomb.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 67 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Kasey S. gave it a9:
They need to add a section where we can find the highest USER rated movies. because if this movie scored a freakin 16/100 you can't trust a critic!! Half Baked is absolutely hilarious... I could watch it 100 times... every time it's been on tv I'm there! hell I'm gonna go buy it on dvd just for the good karma that will result in having this awesome movie in my house.

Mike Y gave it a10:
Funnest movie I have ever seen, hence the best. I enjoy myself more with this movie than ANY other. It is too ironic to see that whoever wrote/copied the NY times review can't spell INTELLIGENT. duh.

Brian K gave it a10:
This is an example of "sometimes even the best critics get it wrong" this is the best Pot movie since Cheech and Chong. David Chapelle is hilarious. This movie is his stand up and it is funny, from start to finish, I don't understand why the dumber, more dismal and lamer Harold and Kumar is lauded by critics so much and this movie gets horrible reviews. I know critics smoked up, so it's not like they can just sit there and not get it!

Jackson G. gave it a9:
First off, the critics "one-liners" are terrible. "It's a bomb, man, not the bomb," "A couple of hash brownies short of a satisfying cinematic picnic," "Sitting on your couch watching these morons sit on their couch and get wasted is like being the only straight guest at a pot party. Everyone else is laughing, and you're left wondering why." Those are way worse than any of this movie's "failed laughs". Secondly, Half-Baked can be enjoyed by people that smoke pot and those that do not. Although, their probably is an age cap of about 50 though.

Krez K gave it a10:
Could be one of the best of all times. Unfortunatly, the critics have trouble laughing at any movie that doesn't have some baby boomer slant to it. Anyone else will feel stoned from laughing so hard.

J B gave it a9:
This is the film that made Chappelle the household name he is today. It's very funny without ever trying to give itself a serious undertone, even at the end (where I think it broke the mold). Ignore the critics on this one. They must have been stoned.

Jimmy P. gave it a10:
Classic cult film...before dave chappelle was dave chappelle. Classic stoner scenerio, original in getting laughs.

Half Baked MCA/Universal Pictures

Half Baked
MCA/Universal Pictures