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Customer Reviews: Average Rating:  Rating :  - Maddening by Lack of Reefers
I've seen so many bad films lately, I felt like taking a hit. Or rather, I watched a movie about people taking a hit. I've heard certain things about "Reefer Madness", being an outrageously incorrect anti-marijuana film that only became entertaining by how kooky smoking marijuana has depicted. When the movie began with a dangerous foreward, I was anticipated:
"Its first effect is sudden, violent, uncontrollable laughter; then come dangerous hallucinations - space expands - time slows down, almost stands still...fixed ideas come next, conjuring up monstrous extravagances - followed by emotional disturbances, the total inability to direct thoughts, the loss of all power to resist physical emotions...leading finally to acts of shocking violence...ending often in incurable insanity."
That made marijuana sounds a lot more interesting than it actually does. But once I've seen the whole 68-minute movie, it occurred to me that it had only seven minutes worth of people puffin' the magic dragon. A tidbit for those planning to see this movie: SKIP THE FIRST TWENTY MINUTES. Nothing happens in those twenty minutes, it's just a teacher arguing about drug use, some kids having fun, and a police officer asking question about drug-related crimes. The characters and the setting are so white-bread and so formal, it's like watching an b-class educational video from the vintage days. Once it got to the drug stuff, how people overreact to their illegal use was actually amusing. One character that gave me entertainment value is a guy named Ralph Wiley, who mainly sits on his couch and laughing his butt off; and when he's paranoid, he makes silly faces.
"Reefer Madness" tries to tell an audience something: if you smoke 'marihuana', it'll make you dance like an idiot, hack five people with an axe, sleep with multiple partners, and be falsely accused of murder done by someone who planted a gun in your hands so you can be the fallout boy. Yea, how do the movie know the last part is drug-related and not circumstantial? It didn't, and when it got serious, it got boring really fast. The movie eventually became a sub-par court drama, and as I was watching, the actual criminals are a little too aware for those who are consumed by the grass. For a 68-minute movie, so much of its time was spend dragging the plot, which became much less interesting because of it. Why couldn't this film be just about people hashin' the pipe, driving the road under the influence and causing chaos? At least that'll provoke a plausible scare tactic, as well as provide un-serious movie folks to enjoy the camaraderie. It's not a cult film worth its own strengths. + See Full Customer Review |  |
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