Pluskylang Great Film overall

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Irishchatter I wouldn't consider this as "The Next Rocky Horror film" or "Genius", I consider this a headache because it was pretty much all over the place! I'm just so disappointed as I love musicals and of course, Alan Cumming & Kirsten Bell were involved in this. I felt the story line didn't make much sense, like one story is jumped onto another at the same time. I just had to stop watching the movie after seeing it only for 30 minutes. I so want my minutes back man! The songs didn't even have great lyrics in them except I loved the song "Reefer Madness" but the rest, god no they had made no sense! I hated the way they made Kirsten Bell's character act very annoying and I absolutely hated the costumes they gave her! The clothes were just as hideous as Christian Campbell's character with his stupid bow-tie and a sweater! I honestly couldn't say anything more about this movie but I can say, it was a waste of time watching it with horror!

ironhorse_iv While, personally I don't smoke the stuff, I found this movie to be very entertaining. Reefer Madness is not only one of my favorite musicals, but one of the most unheard gens in musical theater. The 2005 made-for-television Showtime musical comedy film directed Andy Fickman was an adaptation of the Off-Broadway musical of the same name based on the 1936 exploitation film also of the same name. The 1930s crusade against marijuana, with the Hollywood Hays Code and prejudice directed at racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, labor unions, gays and lesbians is just awfully stupid, so I was glad to hear a movie playing fun of it. With an all-star cast, this satire movie brings some of the best songs I have ever heard in any musical while making fun of the paranoid over-reaction and over-politicizing of the original Tell the Truth program. The production quality is great. The set actually looks decent for a TV movie. The comedy is objectively funny as well, and the 30's were quite ridiculously white-bread about legality equal morality. In a high school classroom, there is a Tell the Truth meeting going on in a black and white color scheme. The Lecturer (Alan Cumming) tells the assembly of anxious parents about the evils of marijuana. It's here, we get to hear the opening song, Reefer Madness theme song by the Steven Colbert look alike. Alan Cumming's voice is awesome! So deliciously creepy! The movie then opens in color showing a young man, Jimmy Harper (Christian Campbell) a fine upstanding youth, blessed with his love for his girlfriend Mary Lane (Kristen Bell). Both actors reprise their roles from the stage as they continue to be charming, and cute. Jimmy's got some crazy ass pipes in his lung in his singing. Kristen is an amazing singer and she can really dance. The two are so in love, they quote and sing 'Romeo and Juliet', not really knowing the ending to that story. The word play in the Romeo and Juliet song is very witty, and watching Shakespeare shaking his head was just hilarious. However, across town, the sadistic weed-pusher, Jack Stone (Steven Weber), and his cronies, neurotic whore Sally DeBanis (Amy Spanger), moll Mae Coleman (Ana Gasteyer), former college student Ralph Wiley (John Kassir), are living in the depths of depravity looking for their next victim. Steven Weber plays the over the top gangster, while Ana Gasteyers gives one hell of a performance singing the song 'The Stuff'. The stuff is a great song by Ana. She plays it over the top as well as straight. Did you know the guy who plays Ralph is the voice of The Cryptkeeper in Tales of the Crypts? John Kassir also worked on the stage version. Anyways, the drug pushers meet Jimmy at the local soda counter during the 'Down at the Ol' Five and Dime' musical number. I really don't like this song, but the dancing is great. Nothing to say about this, but a small cameo by Neve Campbell as Miss Poppy, despite getting third billing. Here's an explanation for Neve Campbell: Originally she was supposed to play Mary Jane in this film adaption but that would have been very weird what with her brother playing Jimmy, so she got recast as Miss Poppy. Also she had a little more character development in the original show as someone who was secretly working for Jack and helped him find kids to push reefer on. Here, she's just a three minute character. So John Carradine like movie. Jimmy get hook on the stuff after one hit taking him to the 'Orgy' song number. Once again, not a good song, but good dance number. I love Jimmy's face after he takes a hit. It made me laugh. So if I take a toke, I will be whisked away to a island of orgy loving barely clad men and women who smoke weed and worship a goat-demon deity named Moloch. Seems legit. The next two songs 'Lonely Pew' and "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy' are amazing. Robert Torti, who played both Jack and Jesus on-stage, portrays only the latter in the film version. I don't find this to really be sacrilegious. I mean, it's not a demeaning portrayal of Jesus; if anything, it just makes him look more awesome. And I would also like to believe that Jesus would kid around a little bit, because God obviously has a sense of humor. 'Lonely Pew' was an add song. Not in the original show. Jimmy continue to fall into madness, getting frame for murder. Only stopping to question himself with 'Mary Jane/Mary Lane'. This song is the best in the movie. Jimmy eats the brownie and immediately forgets all about Mary ("The Brownie Song"). This song is awful, but at less it's short. It's replace a song just known as the monkey song. I would have just cut both songs from the movie. Not only does Jimmy get into a mess, but Mary who plan to rescue him, but instead get hook during the 'Little Mary Sunshine' number. Mary transforms from your simple high school sweetheart into a sadistic, whip cracking dominatrix. The movie go all Macbeth with the 'Murder' number and end with semi tragedy. Overall, this was incredibly entertaining! I was choking on laughter all the way through! I could hardly breathe, it was so hysterical! My only complaint is that still the drug trade does in fact destroy lives, and the movie does make light of it. I fully acknowledge that Marijuana is just as bad as alcohol as far as addiction and incapacitation, but this movie doesn't give you a right to dumb yourself down by Mary Jane. But this is not a debate that doesn't needs not happen here, so just enjoy the movie for its silliness. Can Jimmy get out of the murder rap and save Mary from Reefer Madness? You just have to watch to find out.

metalalchemist1 Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (as if the title needed it) is a..um...spoof, some would say, of the original movie from 1936 entitled "Tell Your Children". As the title would suggest, it's changed into the form of a musical. Fun. The film has many has many, many dance scenes and musical numbers to keep anyone who knows what the Tony Awards entertained. Some people (you know who you are) might not enjoy it because of all the dancing and skipping and singing and "sissy boy" things. Well, who cares? Go watch Monday night football.This will also attract the "stoner" crowd, obviously. Well, that's good. It won't change there minds.The film is fun, has loads of personality, and well written. Alan Cumming is very enjoyable with all his roles. I never knew he was such a great actor (Nightcrawler in X-Men 2 wasn't exactly his best). The only person to do a better job is Kristen Bell, who is a phenomenal singer and actress. Why she hasn't done a Broadway production is beyond me. I hope to see her in more films one day. I guess if I had a quarrel with this movie anywhere, it would be it's length, which might bore you if you are alone. So, have fun, watch with a friend, laugh, dance a little, and don't smoke the "evil" marijuana. Ha. 8/10

photodork52 I'm a big fan of musicals and of satire, so of course, this is a hit with me. The music is catchy, well written and memorable. All the performers did a great job, even the ones that I didn't expect would be able to cut it (steven Webber, ana gasthier) did reasonably well. Kristin Bell and Christian Campbell did fantastic, but I think the winner of this musical would have to be Alan Cumming who plays several roles and has a hell of a set of pipes.This film may not be for everyone. If you're uptight, think that one hit of weed will indeed make you nuts or are easily offended when Jesus in a loin cloth sings songs about staying away from Marijuana, this film is not for you.However, if you can have a good laugh both at drug culture and the war on drugs (and perhaps recognize a parallel in what is going on worldwide today), you will enjoy this movie.I wish I could find the soundtrack, but it is not yet released. The original cast recording is impossible to find.