Ripped

I'm from an era of great smoker movies: the Friday series, How High, Harold and Kumar, Half Baked etc. It's been years watching a stoner movie, so this film came as a big surprise for me.

I'm a big fan of Russel Peters' stand up acts and I love Faizon Love movies, both are well established comedians on their own. Combining these 2 comedians with weed makes a good formula for a good time!

Of course it isn't as good as the movies I mentioned before, but who cares. Watch it without expectation, you'll be surprised how amusing it is and I wasn't even high myself watching it.

It's an alright entertaining flick, don't get too difficult about plots and characters, it's not the point in this film.

When I sat down in 2021 to watch the 2017 comedy "Ripped" from writers Billiam Coronel and Brad Epstein, I have to say that I had never even heard about the movie. So all I knew about it was that it was a comedy and that it was a marijuana comedy of sorts from the synopsis. So I figured maybe it would be in the spirit of the good old classic "Cheech & Chong" movies.

And while "Ripped" was watchable, it just didn't really tickle me in the right places. The storyline was sort of a swing and a miss, falling short of being funny to my particular sense of humor. But I am sure that there is an audience out there for movies such as "Ripped".

The acting performances in the movie were adequate. And lead actors Faizon Love and Russell Peters carried the movie quite well with their performances. Of all the people in the movie, I think I was only familiar with Carlos Gómez.

For me, then "Ripped" wasn't much of an entertaining movie, and for a comedy it was frightfully devoid of funny moments. And I didn't even laugh once throughout the course of the movie. So it was a somewhat long 97 minutes to sit through.

My rating of "Ripped" lands on a generous, but less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

The preview for this movie was far superior to the actual movie. I am a huge fan of Russell Peters and Faizon Love but after 20 minutes of "Ripped", I was ready to for the movie to end.

As expected, the film spews dribble in the form of malicious stereotypes (i.e. potheads are dumb, have no real ambition, and so on). The film doesn't just push stereotypes on the audience, it obnoxiously smothers them with it.

This movie felt like a first draft submitted by a middle school paint- huffer that just discovered weed and the movie: Friday. The best thing about this movie is probably the soundtrack.

There isn't enough weed available to forget this tragedy.

This was a pretty funny movie to watch! Your average stoner comedy with a good happy feel to it... totally worth it! It's funny to think how much time has changed and what it would be like to skip the regression of technology. it's been driving me crazy trying to find the song that played in the credits! It's amazing and I really wanna know what it is...any help would be much appreciated :)

Never sure if that's a good thing. Like is that something that comedians Russel Peters and Fazion Love, who star in this film, would want me to say about their stoner flick? I'm going to assume yes because it shows I had fun watching the movie, cause I did.

It's a great stoner premise. Two teen pot heads in the mid-80s get their hands on some supposedly Area 51 chronic that has them snoozing for 30 years.

So you have a lot of jokes about how different life is in 1986 vs 2016. I got the jokes but they were not that funny (With the exception of the visual gag of seeing Peters and Love wearing clothes the teens wore in the 80s, which is more of a getting older joke than an out of time joke).

It was entertaining watching Love's character adapt to the Internet mostly because somehow Love was able to make the adaption seem natural for an out of time man who was mildly interested in this new technology, while other jokes about the 30-year gap seemed forced.

The real funny parts was the plot of these two stoners trying to start a business selling chili and pot. Reminded me of DJ Pooh's movie Burn House, it's just funny watching two stoners trying to be productive.

Then there's the MILF Alex Meneses. I can't recall ever seeing this woman in anything else but she's hot and I would like to see her in something else.

It's no Pineapple Express or Cheech and Chong but only stoners could wake up after a 30-year slumber and get back into their grove so easily. I did laugh or rather I giggled and I had fun and that's what it's all about

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