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Im not usually a fan of weed films or romantic comedies, but I watched this with a lot of enjoyment the other night. The acting from most of the actors was very good, and the chemistry between the cast as well. Quinn and his father were both superb. Some parts were really laugh out loud funny. Enjoyed the plot twist towards the end, took me completely by surprise. Life in Canadian high-school seems to be depicted pretty accurately. Made me appreciate what I have and see the blessing of not being a little tiny gear in the impersonal system like 99% of other Canadians my age. Will look up the writer / director to try and see more of his work.

It's a depressing, bleak movie without much sense or plot. The pace is extremely slow. It would benefit from about 30-40 minutes of hallway shots, sad faces, elevators, streets, and so on just being removed. We watched close to half of it before beginning to fast forward. It's also extremely predictable and the music is kind of annoyingly depressing. It is realistic and some of the acting is good but overall, it does not leave one with a lasting impression. The relationship of the woman to her ex is incomprehensible, and the highly improbably death of her child is difficult to believe, Overall, the protagonist seems stupid in the sense of being oblivious to danger and doing senseless things such as driving a mercedes into the ghetto... Which takes away from the believability of the whole thing.. I did not feel any compassion or emotion for the perpetually sad chain-smoking woman, but it was sad to know that the actor playing the boy had ben shot before the film was released.

I was taken in by the good reviews and thought this may be funny. It's not. Basically the trailer shows all of the funniest parts, beyond that, it's mostly cringe-worthy. I used to like weird al when I was in high school, but I could not watch this even though I was fast forwarding most of the scenes. It's just all around bad. It also is full of propaganda pushing whatever agenda "they" want to push on you at any given time. Anyway the folks who are writing that this is the best thing ever must be getting paid. To me, it was cringe material from the first minute and it did not elicit a single laugh. Waste of 18 minutes of my life fast forwarding this and trying to find one funny scene.