Ever since the stoner comedy first ambled groggily onto the scene with
Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke in 1978, comedies about marijuana and the people who smoke it have struggled with a very real paradox -- how do you make a movie that’s not stupid, even though it’s about people who are acting stupidly? More than three decades later, that’s a code few filmmakers have been able to crack, and director John Stalberg Jr. doesn’t offer any major breakthroughs in this area with his first feature,
HIGH School. But the movie does manage to deliver something a wee bit smarter and more inventive than most of its bong-addled brethren, and considering its premise hol...
Released:
2010
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins