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DVD Review: Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary
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By Mitch Barracuda

Totally Baked DVD
Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary
Directed by Lee Abbott
Starring Craig Shoemaker, William Atherton, Roma Maffia, Danny Nucci, Ant, Stephen Toblowsky, Heather Sossaman
Shout Factory
Release Date: April 22, 2008

I think I was supposed to watch this movie high. Or better yet, with a bunch of stoners. Instead I watched it on a Saturday morning by myself with a bagel in my bumblebee boxers. Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary is a strange combination of an after-school special and a John Landis comedy segment film a la Amazon Women on the Moon or the Kentucky Fried Movie. One part of it wants to educate audiences on marijuana, comparing it to other addictive drugs and even supplying pop-ups with death tolls for each drug, while the other part of the film wants to entertain with different stories on how cannabis affects America. One minute you’re educated, the next, you’re laughing. It’s like a fun seminar… or something.

The main story revolves around some drug dealers…ahem…Medical Marijuana Activists…that take over a house inhabited by a reunion for a college debate team. (Raise eyebrows now.) The education begins when the daughter of the father is brought home by the ex-wife due to her finding pot in her birth control case. (Let out the “ooooh” now.) So the party continues under the supervision of the MMA’s with guns, and they slowly creep into the resistant debaters on how Mary Jane makes a party great. It’s not laugh out loud funny but not dull either as girls get wild and naked, Heather Sossaman burns the screen with her hotness, and Skippy starts lighting his farts on fire. It’s hard not to laugh at blue flames from the ass.

Around that story are segments filled with stand-up comedy by various comics at some sort of Pot Comedy Festival, Onion snack “Funyuns” parody, a farmer that grows fake pot, Martha Stewart drug cook, and interviews with comedians about their weed addiction. Some are funny, but like I said, funnier if I were “high on the hookah.” Though there is one scene that I did bust a gut laughing at, with some stoner in a pool talking about how his friend calls him while watching the weather channel. It’s a party quote for sure.

What I like most about the film (besides the saucy Heather Sossaman) is how hard it is to deny marijuana being a good thing for Americans. Statistics, quotes from presidents, and realistic scenarios amongst the comedy really opens eyes to marijuana being more beneficial to us compared to all other drugs. The film goes far to show every excuse made for the plant to be illegal is without true merit, being labeled as the abusive, “gateway” drug. Most, if not, all excuses are shot down with reasonable explanation. Especially in the “Fun-Onions” meeting where a brilliant idea is thrown at the viewer with an idea to make the green stuff legal, and I’d rather not say what it is here, but I did laugh with enlightenment on the idea. (Scratch head here and find local video store phone number.)

But the line of comedy and truth is blurred and jumbled throughout the film, especially with the interview segments, so it’s hard for the viewer to laugh all the way through…unless baked. If there was a college course that educated people on marijuana, Totally Baked would be the ultimate movie to watch during class. It would get the students and teacher talking big time afterwards, creating debates and discussions, and who knows, maybe an invitation to a party later. You never know. But if you can find a way to enhance your viewing experience other than a college class, then Totally Baked is a riot. For the rest of us watching the film in our underwear eating a bagel, it’s a fun film that’s educating, eye-opening, and entertaining. So what are you waiting for? It’s the weekend. Go get Totally Baked already.

** ½ Sober, *** Influenced

DVD Bonus Features

Pretty bare…

Behind the Scenes: For a DVD that could have added so much, the only additional treat we get besides a trailer to Craig Shoemaker’s standup DVD is a behind the scenes look at the cast and crew of the movie. The basic question: What is your best “getting high” story? Heather’s “Raid Pizza” story made me sick, and Dale Midkiff’s “Bread Sandwich” is pretty typical. Some strange ones that didn’t make me laugh much. But hey, they were high, and that’s all that matters, right?

For more fun stuff, the website gives a little more to the pothead community.

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