What would happen to your brain and body if you smoked good weed for 30 days straight? That is the premise of comedian Doug Benson’s Morgan Spurlock-one-upping documentary Super High Me. The film is currently showing at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, and while Peter hasn’t seen it, reviews thus far have been favorable, with many expressing respect for the extensive tests Benson puts himself through. He even, uh, went weed-sober for 30 days before the wake-and-bake trials started.
But the trailer? Well, the trailer is just bongs, smoke clouds, nuggets, stoned delays, laughing, and there’s a cameo by fellow comedian Brian Posehn. Oh, and there’s a little medical marijuana debate in there too for good measure. If you’re wondering about the outcome, Benson’s SAT scores were higher stoned, his sperm count actually rose during his month-long weedathon, his psychic abilities were higher stoned, and I’m guessing he continues to toke up regularly. The downside? He gained eight pounds and made a doc on the cheap that practically forces lazy critics to write “this film deserves the good buzz, no pun intended.”
Super High Me, starring Doug Benson, Brian Posehn, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis and Bob Odenkirk is currently on the festival circuit and will be available on Netflix in June ‘08.
Discuss: Should weed be legalized? What is the greatest stoner movie of all time? What other vices would make for good 30-day docs? Don’t watch There Will Be Blood stoned. Do any Slashfilm Cali readers have a medmar prescription?
March 13th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Greatest stoner movie of all time? Top 5:
1. Dazed & Confused
2. Half Baked
3. Grandma’s Boy
4. Rolling Kansas
5. Fast Time At Ridgemont High
I never really liked The Stoned Age. Weed should not be legalized. No perscription here, but a nice 30 day doc would be some guy trying to watch The View for 30 days straight. Either he would hang himself or come out of the closet.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Don’t forget The Big Lebowski.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Best - “Aqua Teen Hunger Force the Movie” and “Super Troopers”
Worst - “Jackass 2.5″, and surprisingly “Cheech and Chong Up In Smoke”
Greyson: Funny “The View” mention
March 13th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Looking forward to this movie. When Benson was high I hope he didn’t run over a young girl riding a bike.
While I have n/a for the other questions, of course cannabis should be legal. People should be able to put whatever they want into their bodies, it’s their bodies ffs. Our government was established to ensure/enforce our human rights and not to prohibit them. Plus, prohibition is just an awful policy that does more harm than good. It creates a black market, violence rises, price fluctuates, quality fluctuates, etc ad nauseum. The people who are going to get high are going to get high. Let’s make a safe environment for them and ensure their freedoms at the same time. And yes, all drugs should be legal.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:24 am
30 Days? Ha
Big ups though!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Yes.
Dead Man.
Crack.
Too late.
:-(
March 13th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
There Will Be Blood stoned only magnifies it’s excellence.
Johnny Greenwood’s score truly screws with you, as does the entirely awesome, mind-blowing movie.
do it.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Alcohol is legal, why not weed?
Greateds stoner movie of all time will probably be Pineapple Express, but because i haven’t seen it yet, i’ll have to say Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
It was nice to see Marc Emery at the end of the trailer.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I’m not so sure Fear & Loathing is a stoner movie as much as it’s a drug movie, like Requiem for a Dream. I kinda forgot about Super Troopers though, good call Matt. Pineapple Express looks magnificient. I’m pretty sure Halk Baked should be at the top of everybody’s list. It still holds up today.
I’ve seen 3 Cheech & Chong films, and only really enjoyed 1 and a half of them. This one about them in a mental institution was horendous, but the other films were okay.
Brad Pitt’s character from True Romance and Slater from Dazed might be the best stoner characters to appear in film history.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:29 am
its the excitement of doing something illegal that makes weed that much better