Maybe funny if you're stoned

Rating: 4/10 (28 June 2012)

I often check the IMDb reviews before watching a movie, a normally I agree with the general direction of them. Oftentimes I get to enjoy a flick that I thought wouldn't appeal to me. This one though is the first for which my initial instincts were right.
There is a couple of comedies about pot culture, in which a punch of potheads do stupid stuff while high. I never liked them - for me the genre feels like a lazy way to write a script, since you don't have to care about smart dialogues and logic, and you get plenty opportunity for slapstick. This one fits right in.
The only think I genuinely loved was James Franco - he really is great and his range seems to be limitless. Seth Rogen I liked in Freaks and Geeks, but since he's been type-casted as mellow pothead, that changed. I just can't relate to his characters, and I think he's wasting his talent.
The action sequences were alright, the humour I didn't like though. Don't think I laughed often.