Metacritic reviews

There's a spirit of generosity to How High that allows many performers to shine beyond its sharp and amiable stars.

It's a good thing the two rappers are such utterly natural actors, armed with terrific comic timing.

There is something fun about a movie that so brazenly portrays excessive pot smoking.

How High is not a particularly good movie, but then again it's not trying to be. It's a project by two B-list rappers seeking to extend their music careers in the way of stars like Will Smith, Ice Cube and Tupac Shakur.

Too lazy to be a comedy, too conventional to be a head movie.

Doesn't look like a movie somebody made. It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen.

This mess was directed with no skill whatsoever by Jesse Dylan, whose father, Bob, once urged us all to get stoned.

The drug-fueled romp turns ugly, sexist and misogynistic, as so many rap-star vehicles do.

While How High could have been a fun comedy college students could watch over and over again, it instead plays like a bad USA movie of the week. The jokes aren't funny, the characters aren't fully developed and poor editing only makes a humorless story confusing.

Meets the required minimum dosage of feature-film attributes, and then nods out when it comes to going any further.