BY MIKEY MIGO
In one scene the two main characters sit around with a wheel-chair bound Andy Milonakis. They’re smoking a lot of weed. They start blowing “smoke shapes”. It escalates to the point where the smoke forms a gun and shoots bullets. To upstage this, Milonakis puts the joint in the crack of a woman’s ass. She then farts and he inhales. Yes, a “fart gun” is followed by a “fart shotgun”. This is just one of many scenes in the stoner comedy “Mac & Devin Go to High School”. Wiz Khalifa stars as a smart and mildly-mannered high schooler named “Devin”. He is getting ready to graduate and is working on his Valedictorian speech. He lacks life experience. Enter Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg stars as “Mac Johnson” a 15 year senior who deals and parties a lot. Snoop being in high school is really silly, but the whole movie is really silly. Devin hooks up with Mac to go on a little journey and take in some “life experience”. This experience is pretty much smoking a lot of weed and living out the happenings and settings of rap videos. I’ve not been a big fan of Wiz in the past, but he was pretty good here. Snoop too. On the surface, the movie looks like it’d be shitty. It’s not shitty. It’s not “Pineapple Express” or anything, but it was a fun time. We also get Mike Epps in a fun supporting role as one of the teachers. Mystikal also shows up… in voice form… as a talking CGI joint that is kind of like the narrator of this shin-dig. The movie does have a plot, but I watched this movie under the influence. I think that’s how everyone should watch this movie. If you’re not a stoner, I don’t know if you’d be able to really appreciate this. With movies with Harold and Kumar and Apatow movies you don’t really need to be a stoner to get into it. I don’t think that’s what’s going on here. I have a hard time imagining someone digging this movie without being a little fucked up. That said I ended up really enjoying this movie. It’s already a short movie, but it’s not even THAT long because the last ten minutes or so is outtakes and bloopers. It’s pretty much an hour long. It’s not a perfect movie and can be a little hokey at times, but it’s a short and sweet stoner comedy. I genuinely laughed and was amused. It doesn’t last long enough to be too overstay it’s welcomed. If you don’t smoke, avoid this because you’ll hate it. If you DO smoke then smoke up and enjoy this movie. B
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