Rotten
Despite the comedy's reliance on drug humor, first-time director Jesse Dylan is actually less interested in getting high than in seeing how low he can go.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Overview
Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
Director and cast
- Jesse Dylan Director
- Method Man as Silas P. Silas
- Redman as Jamal King
- Obba Babatundé as Dean Carl Cain
- Mike Epps as Baby Powder
- Anna Maria Horsford as Mamma King
- Fred Willard as Philip Huntley
- Jeffrey Jones as Vice President
- Héctor Elizondo as Bill the Crew Coach
- Cypress Hill as Musikband
- Lark Voorhies as Lauren
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
26%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Maintains a consistent level of a swaggering, semi-anarchic silliness reminiscent of '70s youth-skewing comedies.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Rotten
Too lazy to be a comedy, too conventional to be a head movie.
Jessica Winter, Village Voice
Fresh
Features a fine mix of several generations of comic talent plus a terrific soundtrack from its stars.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
How High doesn't look like a movie somebody made. It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen.
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
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