Super High Me (2007)
The Gist:
Going off the formula of the Super Size Me movie, which in contrast to this film was at the time one of the most daring documentaries I had ever seen, Super High Me follows around its stand-up comedian protagonist as he goes 30 days without smoking pot and then 30 days smoking pot "every day, all day". There really is no great risk to this film, no staggering insight uncovered. All it really shows is that people can be more or less functional pot heads and I already knew that. Of course, it varies on the individual, which is a nuance that is beyond this film because it's stilted to begin with using a character who already has successfully lived a life as a functional pot head. If they really wanted to make an interesting film they would have expanded their research to more than one test subject. But whatever, the film's entertaining because essentially it's just Doug Benson the comedian riffing on pot, chatting with his famous comedian buddies, and then the movie's over. I do think his comedy was a little sharper when he was sober, but the difference is fairly minimal.
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