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Editorial Reviews: Grab
your favorite munchies, kids. Red and Meth, that dope-addled dynamic
duo, are going to Harvard! And while it's not an episode of
Masterpiece Theatre, How High is destined to become a
guilty pleasure of the cannabis crowd. The plot's a familiar
one--take the basic selling points of any Cheech & Chong movie (a
pair of shambolic protagonists who smoke lots of weed while slinging
slang and driving funky, '70s-style cars), graft them onto a generic
"raising hell on campus" teen movie scenario, and shake vigorously.
The result is a prosaic effort that does contain some all-too-brief
moments of genuine humor. Red and Meth, a.k.a. Redman and Method
Man, may look like the world's oldest freshmen, but both offer
genial performances, especially Method Man, who imbues the character
of Silas with a dog-eared gentleness that raises him above the
film's leaden script and plasticine directing. --Rebecca Levine
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