Super High Me (2007)

Director:

Michael Blieden

Release Date:

20 April 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Comedy

Plot:

Determined to find out the true effects of marijuana on the human body, stand-up comedian and former...

Plot Keywords:

Spoof Title

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brian Unger	...	Narrator (voice)
Gary Cohan	...	Himself
Robert Gore	...	Himself
Sean Tabibian	...	Himself
Paul F. Tompkins	...	Himself
Bob Odenkirk	...	Himself
Graham Elwood	...	Himself
Jimmy Dore	...	Himself
Greg Proops	...	Himself
Rob Huebel	...	Himself
Rob Riggle	...	Himself
Brian Posehn	...	Himself
Patton Oswalt	...	Himself
Sarah Silverman	...	Herself
Arj Barker	...	Himself

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive drug content and language.

Runtime:

USA:89 min | USA:94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA (2008) | New Zealand:R18

Filming Locations:

Bay Area, San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Sixth Way Productions

Trivia:

When the counter changes from "Day 17" to "Day 18", the female announcer says "Good Morning" ("Boker Tov") in Hebrew.

Movie Connections:

References The Vagina Monologues (2002) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Wake Up and Smell the Millennium

Decent, but not really worth the time.

After being told to watch this by various of my stoner friends, i decided to watch it on youtube. This film is a joke turned documentary, a parody of Super Size Me but with cannabis instead of MC Donald's. What i expected was to watch this guy smoke tons of weed and cover subjects related to it, both of which are seldomely met. The truth is, Super High Me consists mostly of Doug Benson stand up act. So for the majority, we just get jokes about being high with a pointless celebrity appearance here and there, with very little concerning the legislation of cannabis. The main point is this, watching someone be sober for 30 days, then be stoned for 30 days, isn't exactly what i'd call entertainment or quality film-making.

There's only about 3/4 tests. One for psychic ability (is there a point?), One for SAT scores, One for Sperm Count, and one for basic intelligence i guess you'd say. Each of these are covered with about 30-40 seconds of screen time, twice in the movie, so your obviously not getting a lot of information for the majority. This movie pretty much just glamorizes California throughout, cause thats the subject most covered. Yes they have dispendencys with different types of pot, yes they have DEA take downs, and yes they have medical mary jane. I covered that in a, probably grammar incorrect, sentence. Here, its covered for about 12-18 minutes, very boring. And for a movie called Super High Me, i expected to see way more usage. There's a surprising lack of content, and as i said before, the majority of the movie is his stand up act.

The actual production is pretty limited. Basically a guy follows Doug around with a camera, not much else, no interview shots are planned or anything like a normal documentary, the only shot setups i really noticed are those of his stand up act, so pretty much its just a guy with a camera filming people talking. No questions are really asked, instead we just have stoners talking about gibberish regarding pot (Although that pot prince guy was pretty hilarious). The sound balance is uneven, at times music will play and render a speaker inaudible. The interviewees don't exactly have any significance, at one point one there is Brian Posehn, who just eats his burger, doesn't say crap, and the scene ends, and also one with his co-star Sarah Silverman, just taking some type of rip from some type of vaporizer, the guitarists of janes addiction is there playing some chords not saying a thing, the scene ends. This is pretty much proof that someone in the crew has to be sober for a movie to be good.

So pretty much all you have here is stand up, which at times, is actually pretty funny. The actual focus of the documentary, isn't exactly 'focused'. Stoners just aren't that interesting, they smoke pot, and sit back and be lazy, thats about it. I'm a pothead who smokes pretty damn often, and i wasn't exactly impressed. Smoke a blunt and watch something a little bit more worthwhile like half baked or harold and kumar, this isn't really a entertaining or groundbreaking documentary. If your really interested in the effects and culture of cannabis, check out bbc's show Should I Smoke Dope, its pretty much what this should have been.