Here we have a film I've heard a LOT about over the years, but I often forget exactly how long ago this original one was made! (This was not the musical version with Kristen Bell that came out a few years ago, nor does it star James Franco or Danny Masterson, obviously.) What it is/was, is/was an anti-marihuana (yes, with an "h") propaganda film whose original working title, "Tell Your Children", explains exactly why the movie was distributed: education. Don't do drugs, kids, or otherwise one of the following will happen to you:
1. You will begin to laugh hysterically, and for no reason.
2. You will begin to listen to, and like, jazz music.
3. You will lose the ability to function normally and appropriately.
4. You will become uncontrollably violent.
5. Other irreparably terrible things will happen to you, as well. Consider your life over.
I only actually really wanted to watch the movie because there is a RiffTrax attached to it. I think that my brother Matt and I could have enjoyed it without the RiffTrax being on, but the "movie" is so ungodly terrible that I'm glad the humor could have been supplied. Now, I can honestly avow that I have never partaken of marihuana (or, the one with the "j") and don't exactly condone it, but I can assure all of my readers that, given the choice between saying Reefer Madness is good for society and toking... who's got the weed?
Score: 1/10 (It doesn't go any lower)
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