Rolling Kansas
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Movie Reviews of Rolling Kansas
Movie Review: Funnnnny
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are after laughs this will do it. I think it is funnier than 'Without a paddle.'
My job is stressful and I don't need any real world drama; sometimes you just need to laugh. This is great for that!
Movie Review: A Real Hoot!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the funniest movies I've seen. If you like funny quest / road movies......this one is for you.
Smoke em if you got em!
Movie Review: Excellent Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie. It is a total stoner film! I was laughing so hard during every scene! 5 STARS!!!Movie Review: Best quote of the film:
Summary: 5 Stars
What do ya got in that box there?
-oh, just Bunnies, sir.
Look like dog snacks to me!
Movie Review: Recommended for Self-Conscious Laughs. Poor Purchase
Summary: 4 Stars
`Rolling Kansas' seems to be an independent film maker's early effort, in technical quality and polish much like Kevin Smith's `Mallrats' and `Chasing Amy', with veteran Rip Torn in the role of recognized face, played in Smith's movies by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. There is even a superficial similarity in the importance of marijuana to the plot and obscenity to the dialogue, two stock aspects of Jay and Silent Bob.
One big difference between this movie and Kevin Smith's works is that while I was delighted to see a news item saying that Smith was to be doing an updated movie on his characters from his first movie `Clerks', including, one can hope, a reappearance of Jay and Silent Bob, I feel no strong anticipation in considering a follow-up to this movie.
That is not the same as saying that the movie was not entertaining. It simply did not engage one's sympathy for the characters and their plights. They were not smart / cynical like the principle characters in `Clerks'. They were not nerdy / smart as in revenge of the nerds. They were not so dumb as in `Dumb and Dumber' that you cringed at their stupidity. They were simply average college age ciphers without a clue about much of anything except running a marginal tee-shirt store and selling weed to middle class students who still drive original Volkswagen beetles. Then, the prospect of incredible good fortune lands in their laps entirely by accident.
As this event is told on the notes on the back of the box, it is no mystery that the good fortune is in the form of a map from their hippie parents to an abandoned experimental governmental installation for growing marijuana. The boys live in northern Texas and this `Magical Forest of Marijuana' is about 400 miles away in central Kansas. This sets off the whole point of the movie, the trip to Kansas to harvest lots of primo weed from this almost forgotten marijuana forest. It's at this point where the five boys' stupidity becomes fully engaged with their inept preparations for the trip and their misadventures on the way with heavily stereotyped representatives of both federal and state law enforcement agencies.
The only character who is in the least believable is Rip Torn's wanderer who assists them in finally locating the stand of weed. And, all this stupidity and stereotyping is definitely intentional and done for the comic effect. The only problem is that you start to become self-conscious about finding humor in such inane devices.
This would not be a comedy if everything did not come out well for our heroes in the end, with at least one amazing flash of inspiration by the owner of the tee-shirt store which netted the boys more money than they would ever have made from selling the weed, with much less risk of interference by aforementioned law enforcement agencies.
It just dawned on me that the writers' naming the family of principle characters `Murphy' may specifically have been a reference to the famous `Murphy's Law', because just about every misfortune imaginable befalls our hapless heroes, largely as a result of their own relentless stupidity.
This movie is entertaining. I did not regret watching it, even though I have no interest in tracking down other things this creative crew may have done. Again, the story and characters simply did not engage my interest as a Kevin Smith cast and story can do. Also, unlike Smith's productions that have the resources of Mirimax behind them, this DVD has zero special features. This is surprising, because these will often make the difference between an indifferent and a worthwhile DVD purchase.
Watch it if you like potty stories. Not worth the money to purchase.