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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorI kind of liked this slow, stoner comedy.
- 50New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardReefer mildness.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklySitting 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.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleBut 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]
- 20Austin ChronicleRussell SmithAustin ChronicleRussell SmithThe 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.
- 20Film ThreatRon WellsFilm ThreatRon WellsThe title refers to your expected condition when you see this movie. Oh well. It'll be HUGE on video.
- 10L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyL.A. WeeklyErnest HardyThe film's deadly lulls outweigh its infrequent highs.
- 0Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittPaying homage to drug comedies of the '70s, Half Baked is high on getting high and low on laughs.
- A limp, predictable less-than-sitcom of a movie. It's a bomb, man, not the bomb.
- 0Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonSomeone definitely inhaled too much before making this one.