Muffy in Bongwater (1998)

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When you look at the cast, you think this movie might have some potential as a counter-cultural comedy about the pot culture. Andy Dick, Jack Black, Luke Wilson, Alicia Witt, Brittany Murphy, Amy Locane, Scott Caan...

... these people have all been funny and/or competent at times. The video box markets the film as a hilarious stoner comedy. I like most of those people. I like stoner comedies. I thought it might be fun.

Wrong.

Well, they do smoke some weed, but you won't get a lot of laughs out of this film. Here's what watching it is like. Imagine you go to a pot party, and you arrive too late. The weed is all smoked, and the giggly stage is all finished, and now everyone is in that stage where they're too lazy to stand up and they're muttering about how their feet don't match each other.

There you go - not stoner humor, but stoner babble. Of course, most stoner humor shows the way that outsiders view stoners. This film basically shows an insider look at how they view each other.

If you've ever wolfed down any wacky weed, you know that the stuff that seemed funny then doesn't always seem funny when you describe it a week later. Everything seems embarrassing all of a sudden, and you had to be there to get the joke.

There's the problem with this movie. You had to be there. Oh, it might be realistic in some ways, but it isn't funny. If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't really trying to be a comedy. Mostly, it's a shrill romantic mix-up where people make the wrong choices and regret it, and some of the characters happen to be stoners.

The dialogue is sometimes confusing, and Alicia Witt is obnoxious and completely unlikable except for her looks. (Real stoners hate those obnoxious, self-promoting, type-a personalities. They ruin the vibes, dude)

Mostly, it's so bo-o-o-o-o-ring.

Nudity Report: A stripper called Muffy is topless in the first few minutes of the film. Two unidentified guys are seen naked in bed - from behind.

Critics Vote: no reviews online

IMDB Summary: 5.7 out of 10

Box Office: no theatrical release

DVD Info: no widescreen, no meaningful features


Written by: Scoopy …scoopy.net