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Evil Bong: High-5
USA 2016
produced by Charles Band, Sean Tiedeman (executive) for Full Moon
directed by Charles Band
starring Sonny Carl Davis, Robin Sydney, Amy Paffrath, John Patrick Jordan, Chance A. Rearden, Mindy Robinson, Rorie Moon, Jacob Witkin, Jonathan Katz, David DeCoteau, David Del Valle, Luke Hutchie, Caleb Hurst, Orson Chaplin, Circus-Szalewski, K. Harrison Sweeney, Noelle Ann Mabry, Tian Wang, Jinhee Joung, Skin Diamond, Adriana Sephora, Cameron Dee, Rob Vardaro, Michelle Mais (voice), Bob Ramos (voice), Alan Maxson
story by Charles Band, screenplay by Kent Roudebush, music by William Levine, special effects by Jeffrey S. Farley
Evil Bong, Gingerdead Man, Hambo, Ooga Booga (cameo)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Larnell (John Patrick Jordan), his friends Sarah Leigh (Robin Sydney)
and Velicity (Amy Paffrath) and the Gingerdead Man (voiced by Bob Ramos)
want to get out of Bongworld, but not even the master of nothingness,
Rabbit (Sonny Carl Davis) seems to know a way ... so the fiveson accept a
deal from Evil Bong herself Eebe (voiced by Michelle Mais): The men are to
run her weed shop in California and make 1 million Dollars in a month to
finance her latest plan for world domination while the girls stay behind
to be (rather pleasurably) punished by Eebe's Poonishers (Skin Diamond,
Adriana Sephora). In their weed shop, Larnell, Rabbit and the Gingerdead
Man are off to a bad start as there are hardly any stoners with big money
around, and even the ssistance of sexy Phoebe (Mindy Robinson) and
pig-snouted Hambo (Chance A. Rearden), who's more into selling Full
Moon action figures than actually helping our heroes. But our heroines
might have an ace or two up their sleeves as well ... Truth to
be told, the Evil
Bong series was never serious horror right from episode
1 - but with this 5th or 6th entry (depends how you're counting,
really), it has become pretty much an irreverent revue of stoner jokes ...
but as such, the film works marvelously well, it doesn't take itself
seriously for a minute, director and Full
Moon showrunner Charles Band is not afraid to make tons of jokes
at the expense of himself and his own product (which probably works as the
best advertisment for his past endeavours actually), the cameo appearance
by David DeCoteau alone is priceless, and the humour as such ... well, it
may be crude at times (though there are inspired jokes), but one really
gets the feel it's a film you ought to watch stoned to really get
all of it - plus, the cast (mostly holdovers from earlier movies) seems
uniformly in on the joke, which is indispensable for a film like this. Now
seriously, if you expected Oscar-worthy material from a film called Evil
Bong High-5 - well, you might need your head examined anyways, but
taken by its own stoned merits, it's a good excuse for a laugh as there
ever will be one!!!
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