High School Reviews

Movie Reviews

• unfortunately, hilarity does not automatically ensue

  by Marshall Fine [Hollywood & Fine ]

• the movie mimics its characters' confusion too well, pinballing from dully predictable goofiness to overamped paranoia with little cohesion

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• the film offers proof that they are unwise as a subject for comedy unless the movie in question does something funny with them

  by Roger Ebert [Chicago Sun-Times ]

• the film becomes sluggish whenever focus expands to the spaced-out students, who shuffle around with unconvincing purposelessness

  by Keith Uhlich [Time Out New York ]

• once the plot has sprung into action, "High School" is a bumpy ride that takes a few amusing dives but never coheres into anything special

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• many a scene feels a tad repetitive

  by JimmyO [JoBlo's Movie Emporium ]

• lacks the oddball inventiveness of the "Harold and Kumar" films or other genuine pot comedies

  by Mark Olsen [Los Angeles Times ]

• just about everyone inside the building is blitzed to their scalps on high-grade pot

  by Amy Biancolli [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• it largely ignores the bliss of a marijuana high and focuses on a user's fear of getting caught with the stuff

  by Richard Corliss [TIME Magazine ]

• here, though, the plot, like the humor, is a one-note wonder

  by Scott Bowles [USA Today ]

• all of this is remarkably cheerless, and somehow the prospect of an entire student body and faculty baked off their gourds fails to generate even perfunctory laughter

  by Andrew Schenker [Village Voice ]

• a lot of these gags might work over a pan of pot brownies, but they fall kind of flat when all you have to work with are popcorn and Red Vines

  by Barbara VanDenburgh [Arizona Republic ]

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