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The Original Stoner Comedy
11 years ago
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RIFFTRAX LIVE: REEFER MADNESS
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XNH4YU....._new_dp_review
Somehow I'd managed to miss "Reefer Madness" on the midnight movie circuit, but now I can see the appeal of this movie: it's one of the greatest unintentional comedies ever made. It's absolutely impossible to watch it without laughing.
A wizened prune of a man lectures anyone within earshot about the evils of marijuana, and illustrates his point by recounting the story of a high school dweeb who smokes one joint, and is immediately plunged into a world of addiction, madness, murder and suicide. This is a colorized version -- as if watching this turkey in the original black & white would be any improvement -- and Mike, Bill, and Kevin rip this movie a new one, hilarious even when they flub the occasional line.
The shorts preceding the feature are awesomely bizarre. Animator Rich Kyanka provides two surrealistic films written and narrated by his five-year-old daughter, which are even stranger than the plotless 1930 cartoon, "Frozen Frolics" (remember to pack a seltzer bottle when traveling to the north pole). Oh, and there's an educational short warning you not to wash your clothes in a pan of gasoline on your kitchen counter. Just so you know.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XNH4YU....._new_dp_review
Somehow I'd managed to miss "Reefer Madness" on the midnight movie circuit, but now I can see the appeal of this movie: it's one of the greatest unintentional comedies ever made. It's absolutely impossible to watch it without laughing.
A wizened prune of a man lectures anyone within earshot about the evils of marijuana, and illustrates his point by recounting the story of a high school dweeb who smokes one joint, and is immediately plunged into a world of addiction, madness, murder and suicide. This is a colorized version -- as if watching this turkey in the original black & white would be any improvement -- and Mike, Bill, and Kevin rip this movie a new one, hilarious even when they flub the occasional line.
The shorts preceding the feature are awesomely bizarre. Animator Rich Kyanka provides two surrealistic films written and narrated by his five-year-old daughter, which are even stranger than the plotless 1930 cartoon, "Frozen Frolics" (remember to pack a seltzer bottle when traveling to the north pole). Oh, and there's an educational short warning you not to wash your clothes in a pan of gasoline on your kitchen counter. Just so you know.
LOL. I've seen Reefer Madness (the original one). I couldn't stop laughing.