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In case your film nights may take a number of extra hits, try our information to the most effective stoner films! These are important and favourite films to the marijuana expertise, starting from counterculture classics (Up in Smoke, Straightforward Rider), top-shelf mainstream movies (Pineapple Specific, Friday), and cult comedies (Grandma’s Boy, Tremendous Troopers), all that includes icons like Jeff Spicoli and The Dude. Then we took all the films and sorted them by Tomatometer, highest first after all.
In the event you’re searching for a visit information, one thing to pair with no matter state you’re in, try the 25 Favourite Stoner Motion pictures! (And don’t overlook the 20 greatest films to observe excessive.)
#1
Adjusted Rating: 95802%
Critics Consensus: That includes a superb ensemble solid, a exact really feel for the Nineteen Seventies, and a killer soundtrack, Dazed and Confused is a humorous, affectionate, and clear-eyed have a look at highschool life.
#2
Adjusted Rating: 91574%
Critics Consensus: Energetic, self-deprecating performances and sufficient guffaw-inducing humor make up for the issues in This Is the Finish loosely written script.
#3
Adjusted Rating: 88622%
Critics Consensus: Sometimes beautiful visuals and sharp dialogue from the Coen Brothers, delivered to life with robust performances from Goodman and Bridges.
#4
Adjusted Rating: 89197%
Critics Consensus: Edgy and seminal, Straightforward Rider encapsulates the desires, hopes, and hopelessness of Sixties counterculture.
#5
Adjusted Rating: 82262%
Critics Consensus: Whereas Quick Occasions at Ridgemont Excessive options Sean Penn’s legendary efficiency, the movie endures as a result of it precisely captured the small particulars of college, work, and teenage life.
#6
Adjusted Rating: 76164%
Critics Consensus: What Friday would possibly lack in taut development or directorial aptitude, it greater than makes up with its vibrant (albeit persistently crass) humor and the charming, energetic performances of its leads.
#7
Adjusted Rating: 78856%
Critics Consensus: The likable leads and subversion of racial stereotypes elevate Harold and Kumar above the standard stoner comedy.
#8
Adjusted Rating: 83679%
Critics Consensus: Inherent Vice could show irritating for viewers who demand absolute coherence, however it does justice to its acclaimed supply materials — and may fulfill followers of director P.T. Anderson.
#9
Adjusted Rating: 77813%
Critics Consensus: Ted‘s “romance versus bromance” plot is acquainted, however the movie’s held aloft by the high-concept central premise and a really humorous (albeit inconsistent) script.
#10
Adjusted Rating: 75559%
Critics Consensus: Each humorous and scattershot, this loose-knit motion/buddy/stoner comedy bridges genres and retains a gradual tempo of low-ball laughs.
#11
Adjusted Rating: 67742%
Critics Consensus: Though lots of the jokes have been accomplished earlier than, Anna Faris’s vivid efficiency and Gregg Araki’s sharp course make Smiley Face greater than your common stoner comedy.
#12
Adjusted Rating: 57971%
Critics Consensus: Followers can anticipate a great giggle because the solid from Smith’s earlier movies reunite for Jay and Silent Bob’s final bow. The free plotting and crude language could also be an excessive amount of for others although.
#13
Adjusted Rating: 57011%
Critics Consensus: Tenacious D fan will discover this film hilarious; all people else will see solely a low-brow idea film and a small meeting of jokes stretched previous the 100 minute mark.
#14
Adjusted Rating: 54965%
Critics Consensus: Critics say Scary Film overloads on crudity and grossness to get its laughs.
#15
Adjusted Rating: 54421%
Critics Consensus: We are the Millers squanders its potential with an uneven, lazily assembled story..
#16
Adjusted Rating: 52193%
Critics Consensus: Visually artistic, but in addition aimless, repetitive, and devoid of character growth.
#17
Adjusted Rating: 48222%
Critics Consensus: Oft-quoted however undeniably flawed, Up In Smoke is a seminal piece of stoner cinema due to the likability of its two counterculture icons.
#18
Adjusted Rating: 26774%
Critics Consensus: No consensus but.
#19
Adjusted Rating: 43084%
Critics Consensus: No consensus but.
#20
Adjusted Rating: 37554%
Critics Consensus: A more-miss -than-hit affair, Tremendous Troopers will more than likely attraction to these in search of one thing foolish.
#21
Adjusted Rating: 29458%
Critics Consensus: You’d must be excessive to dig Half Baked‘s half baked manufacturing and scattershot humorousness — though perhaps that was the purpose of this Dave Chapelle-led joint.
#22
Adjusted Rating: 27614%
Critics Consensus: How Excessive is a sloppily constructed stoner film full of lame, vulgar jokes.
#23
Adjusted Rating: 20650%
Critics Consensus: A raunchy sendup of Airplane! that by no means actually takes off.
#24
Adjusted Rating: 18483%
Critics Consensus: The film is not humorous, the plot is simply too skinny, and the manufacturing values really feel extra like a TV sitcom than a film.
#25
Adjusted Rating: 15981%
Critics Consensus: A gross-out comedy that is extra gross than comedic, Grandma’s Boy is lazy and unrewarding.
