Movie Review – Mac & Devin Go To High School

Disclaimer: This film is meant for people who smoke or who is interested in the subject.
Mac & Devin Go To High School is a story surrounded by two characters, Mac and Devin.  Mac is played by Snoop Dogg and Devin is played by Wiz Khalifa.  Mac plays the super-senior role in this movie; going on being in school for the past 15 years.  Devin is one of the school’s resident nerds and all-around good guy.  The story is that Mac is a super-senior and Devin wants to graduate.  Because of a new substitute teacher, played by Teairra Marí, the two are paired up for a class assignment.

I enjoyed and liked this film.  It was very funny.  In the tradition of Snoop and Wiz, it’s centered on smoking weed which reads like a full-length movie promotion of weed.  It includes truths like the history of marijuana and how to differentiate strands of the herb, etc.  You will see comedian cameo’s that include Mike Epps (sub teacher) and Andy Milonakis a.k.a. Knees Down.  Side Note: Knees Down is a crippled kid who is only handicapped from the knees down.  Different girls in the film loved to call him Knees Down after having sex with him.  Saying that he is only handicapped from the knees down…  Luenelle cameos as well and is playing the Principal and the one who bails Mac out when he gets in trouble with the Vice Principal.  The entire plot is pretty good when you get past the point of it being one big smoke fest.

Devin wants to figure out a way to create a new energy source which is free; the basis of the school project that he and Mac were paired up for.  Snoop eventually convinces Wiz to smoke weed by telling him to eat a brownie that was cooked with kush.  If you didn’t know, eating weed via a brownie makes the HTC much more potent.  After this, his life changes all around and he doesn’t hang out with the same people and he is experiencing a totally different world.  He is now leaning towards the slacker route who smokes all the time in comparison to the book smart kid he was before the weed.

After a couple of friendship trials and tribulations, Mac and Devin use their wits to get their project completed. Overall I thought this was a really good movie.  4 stars if you smoke or is thinking of smoking.