How High 2001

Critics score:
27 / 100

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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: A hip-hop comedy that succeeds even when How High tests how low it can go. Read more

Charles Savage, Miami Herald: Most of the movie is simply a series of sex-and-drug adventures as Method Man and Redman romp through campus and play pranks on the dean. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: In small doses, the movie's outlandish, unapologetic gross-out humor works... Taken in all at once, though, How High can be daunting. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Features a fine mix of several generations of comic talent plus a terrific soundtrack from its stars. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: It begs the response that seems to have been the moviemakers' mantra: 'Whatever.' Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: This chaotic mess of a film ... has the disjointed quality of a stoned-out fantasy. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Sample what you want. Doze through the rest. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: The infectious high spirits amid its cartoonish chaos compensate for the film's bald deficiencies and gag-inducing gags. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: There's ... enough cheery mockery to amuse even non-tokers. Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: A string of gross one-liners about ho's, white-man university, ho's, marijuana, ho's, the sexual inadequacy of Orientals, ho's, amazingly clueless white people, and ho's. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: How High doesn't look like a movie somebody made. It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: A spottily amusing showcase for rappers Method Man and Redman. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Maintains a consistent level of a swaggering, semi-anarchic silliness reminiscent of '70s youth-skewing comedies. Read more

Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Too lazy to be a comedy, too conventional to be a head movie. Read more