Half Baked - Totally high and crazy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Half Baked - Totally high and crazy |
| Original title | Half baked |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tamra Davis |
| script |
Dave Chappelle Neal Brennan |
| production | Robert Simonds |
| music | Alf Clausen |
| camera | Steven Bernstein |
| cut | Don Zimmerman |
| occupation | |
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Half Baked - Totally high and crazy ( German "stupid, immature", colloquially also "half stoned") is an American stoner comedy from 1998 directed by Tamra Davis . It is also known by the alternate title Half Baked - a bag full of weed .
Half Baked was released on January 16, 1998 in the US and grossed over $ 7 million on the first weekend. Overall, the film had a box office income of $ 17 million on a production budget of $ 8 million.
Despite its comparatively great success, the film did not appear in Australian cinemas, presumably because the plot is partly uncritically based on the consumption of marijuana . However, it was released there as a video and also broadcast on television.
In Inside the Actors Studio , screenwriter and leading actor Dave Chappelle complained in 2006 that his original script was actually much better. Above all, he intended to tailor the film to a more adult audience.
action
Thurgood and his friends Brian and Scarface find themselves forced to trade in medical marijuana in order to buy their friend Kenny out of jail. He had previously accidentally killed a police horse suffering from diabetes with sweets. The marijuana is stolen from the laboratory in which Thurgood works as a cleaner. They set up a company, Mr. Nice Guy (a reference to Howard Marks who controlled the marijuana trade in the US in the 1970s and 1980s), sold the drug and quickly became very popular with consumers. Thurgood's life gets into some turmoil when his drugged friend Mary Jane (a scene-name variant of marijuana ) finds out that he works for Mr. Nice Guy. Soon the lives of others are also in danger when the local drug dealer Samson Simpson realizes that Mr. Nice Guy is ruining his business, including trading with his former customers, including rapper Sir Smoke-a-Lot (alluding to Sir Mix -a-Lot ).
criticism
“An attempt at comedy whose plot defies description and whose low-key puns have to be classified as childish. A film that is unbearable in your right mind. "
"Unlike most comedies of this genre," Half Baked "is riotous even to the sober. Any reservations you have about the film go quickly up in smoke. "
“Unlike most other films in this genre, Half Baked is also funny for the sober. Any reservations about this film will quickly go up in smoke. "
Web links
- Half Baked - Fully high and crazy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Half Baked - Fully high and crazy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Half Baked - Totally high and crazy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Phil Villarreal: Opinion by Phil Villarreal: 'Half Baked' is one comedy that's well done. In: The Arizona Daily Star. December 16, 2005, accessed December 13, 2011 .