Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
16
(14 sources)
16
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TV Guide
The plot is simply an excuse for a string of good-natured dope jokes (come on -- you have to love that their hookah is called Billy Bong Thornton) and goofy sight gags inspired by everything from Jerry Garcia to Jerry Maguire, most of which are undoubtedly funniest if you're eight miles high. Read Full Review » -
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Entertainment Weekly
Sitting 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. Read Full Review » -
30
Variety
A couple of hash brownies short of a satisfying cinematic picnic, with far too few comic highs during the bigscreen reefer party. Read Full Review » -
30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
The main problem, however, is Tamra Davis' leaden direction, which prevents Half-Baked from developing comic momentum. There are a few scattered laughs. Read Full Review » -
25
San Francisco Chronicle
But 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] Read Full Review » -
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Austin Chronicle
The 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. Read Full Review » -
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Film Threat
The title refers to your expected condition when you see this movie. Oh well. It'll be HUGE on video. Read Full Review » -
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The New York Times
Not very funny, intellignet or grippingly plotted, it is likely to appeal only to those who think that anything to do with marijuana - smoking, sharing, stealing or selling - constitutes the Everest of rip-roaring hilarity. [17 Jan 1998] Read Full Review » -
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Christian Science Monitor
Paying homage to drug comedies of the '70s, Half Baked is high on getting high and low on laughs. Read Full Review » -
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Los Angeles Times
A limp, predictable less-than-sitcom of a movie. It's a bomb, man, not the bomb. Read Full Review »
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