Stay off the weeeEEEEEEEEEEDD

I love this musical too! I didn't have access to Showtime when it premiered but when I saw the DVD in a going-out-of-business video store, I snapped it up.

Stumbled upon this movie on Showtime during the animation sequence back in 2006 and then stayed up until 2am to watch the replay of it because I figured this weird movie would disappear forever. I own the DVD now and show/loan it out to friends constantly. If you want another underrated movie where the incredible set design is the real star, watch "Dave Made a Maze".

Watching this reaction after attending the stage revival of this musical in Los Angeles this past weekend with Kristen Bell reprising her role as Mary Lane, stepping in when the lead actress called out.

@TwoScoopsXD

2 күн бұрын

That's so cool that she is in the revival

@Lawyerman

2 күн бұрын

@@TwoScoopsXD Kristen Bell, Alan Cumming, and Christian Campbell are actually producers for the Los Angeles stage revival. It's in a very small theater that holds maybe 100 people. Over the weekend, so many actors called out that Kristen Bell and Christian Campbell stepped in to fill roles. They've filled in a couple of times over the summer. They're not normally in the show, but since they already knew the show as producers and having already done the show, they decided to fill in.

@ktburger659

21 сағат бұрын

Damn I’m jealous!

I too have a lot of feelings about Alan that I don't know what to do with. It's nice to see some relatable content on KZread for a change.

Love this movie. The only movie I actually purchased on youtube (couldn't find the dvd - apparently the case is brownie scented. Also have a number of the songs on my permanent playlist in the car and sing along all the time

@pompe221

13 күн бұрын

I have the DVD. It is not brownie-scented.

Finally some people react to the best stoner/musical movie ever 😉

I found this when it first came out at Blockbuster video, rented it, and went out and bought it the next day. I then watched it for about two weeks straight. I love it so much and I'm so glad at least someone else out there does, too. The dvd case also smelled like chocolate. 😃

I have not seen the musical, but have seen the original, which I think floats around on KZread. By the time I did see this, it was in the later 20th century, like 1990's or so, when the scare tactics were known to be almost completely fictional. (I love how the big effect was portrayed as uncontrollable laughter and the actors were trying too hard to make this look somehow bad and dangerous.) But you have NO idea how this movie affected most Americans when it first came out. (In the first Back to the Future movie, in the 1955 world at the dance, the bad guys back away from the dance band getting out of the car with all the smoke billowing out "I don't want to mess with any reefer addicts." This is how smoking pot was conceived at that that.) In 1966, I had to take the subway from Queens to lower Manhattan to attend Stuyvesant School of Science. My mother wanted to give me a pack of regular cigarettes to carry in case any strangers came up to me on a subway platform, offering me one of "those funny cigarettes." The idea being one drag on a joint was the ultimate and unstoppable road to hell. All the evils of all drug abuse was rolled into the uninformed idea of smoking pot. And made possession of marijuana such a terrible criminal offense in the eyes of the law. (In 1973, I came out to my parents. By that time, I had tried grass a couple of times (and for me, it didn't do much). So first I told my parents I had done this, as a sort of preliminary shock, before I told them I was gay, figuring the first shock would numb them to the second. (And yes, they were shocked but over several months when I was away at college, learned about homosexuality and became dedicated members of Parents of Gays. And the marijuana issue was just a footnote to this in my coming out story.))

@TwoScoopsXD

Жыл бұрын

Using the weed to soften the gay reveal

lists the stacked cast, fails to mention John Kassir...says the laughing guy is "like a chipmunk," and a "wild Columbo," fails to recognize the iconic laugh..."he's very Kramer" Okokok...as someone who is both a 90s kid and has a Frozen obsessed niece, I have to tell you, you've failed to grasp the full hilarity...That man is The Cryptkeeper. Princess Anna was forcing herself on The Cryptkeeper.

Dani B and Cam feels like the ultimate crossover. Also HELP- 8:07

@TwoScoopsXD

Жыл бұрын

Had to rally the jews

Late to this. 29:39, question about Alan Cummings's role. He's Propaganda Personified. He's the "They" behind "They're watching me". That's not allegory, either. At the time period, Nationalism was a new ideology in the world, and governments were openly entering into public discourse about the benefits of engaging in Propaganda, and whether or not the State had a duty to protect and project the correct way of thinking to ensure a strong National identity. Propaganda was considered to be a tool which would be good for society if used judiciously by a righteous government. And then the rise of WWII German ideologies kind of made the whole world a little sus of the whole concept of trusting governments with the power to advocate opinions on behalf of some nationalistic ideal. The dark side of that was exposed, the public sentiment turned, and what had previously been the techniques of the Propaganda department got rebranded, refocused, and repackaged as "Public Relations" and a whole new use for the same old tricks was found. But it was entrusted to the private sector, thinking the marketplace of ideas in a free society would always provide competition and debate. And that was all top of mind in the 30's when the original movie, Reefer Madness, was created. The creators of the play version are literally exposing the Propaganda of the past in dramatic format. The reason that Alan Cummings portrays the Demon Prince Moloch (NOT the Devil, by the way), is because there was a 1930s propaganda pamphlet tract freely distributed about how marijuana use enslaved the souls of its smokers for the Demon Prince Moloch. That's what they're chanting in the chorus, Moloch's name). Alan Cumminigs plays the part of the Propaganda from the past concerning Reefer. He plays Moloch because historically so did the propaganda from the government and public agencies, or rallied by William Randolph Hearst, who wanted to discredit the hemp industry to prevent more expensive paper for Hearst's newspaper, or something along those lines. In any event, the play is a reminder to modern audiences just how ridiculous and dangerous propaganda of any sort is. And how essential it is for us to embrace and perpetuate the contrarian spirit in a free society.

@pacio49

6 ай бұрын

Interesting trivia about the production of the movie. There was some time constraint with the sound stage for the Orgy scene so they had to shoot all the way through the night to use the space, and the only dancers they could get last minute for the overnight work on the scene were exotic dancers from nearby strip clubs. That's why they're particularly more buxom than the rest of the cast in the film.