I’ve never been a fan of movies about smoking pot. Maybe because I can’t identify with any facet of that lifestyle. However, horror movies about pot, sure, I can get down with that.
Hansel And Gretel Get Baked isn’t your average stoner flick. When Gretel and her boyfriend “Ash” smoke some apparently amazing weed, they get the munchies. This leads to a quest for food, which leads back to a quest for more pot. It’s a truly vicious cycle. When Ash goes back to the “Little old lady from Pasadena(‘s)” house to get some weed, he hits a snag. As he is waiting for her to get her special blend of weed called, you guessed it, “Black Forrest” he makes mention of her gingerbread house. She [the witch] quickly warns him “Don’t touch my gingerbread house.” So naturally, he takes a huge chunk of it off and begins to eat it. Uncovering some Nazi war documents and identification… cause she’s German, you see. This is where the story really begins, I guess.
Gretel is worried about her stoner boyfriend, and thinks something may have happened to him. Well she goes out to investigate and drags her brother, Hansel, along for the ride. What they discover is that the little old lady is much more than just a pot dealer.
Hansel and Gretel Get Baked started off really poorly. Wilhelm scream in the first scene, and delivered by the character portrayed by Cary Elwes, of all people. Lara Flynn Boyle plays the part of the witch, and I hope (closer to the end of the movie) that she is in HEAVY make-up. If not, she has not aged well. Anyway, this movie began to grow on me a little more as it dragged on. That’s really not something I was expecting.
The writing was full of asides to the other Grim Fairy Tales, and the like. Oddly there weren’t a lot of pot head puns. Given the fact that she cooks and eats the kids, that low hanging fruit that wasn’t picked. So, good for them. The deaths were nothing spectacular, but played well in the movie. Ash, for instance, is cut up and eaten before he is killed.
By the end, I was left feeling indifferent. I didn’t hate Hansel And Gretel Get Baked, but it wasn’t truly bad enough to love it for taking a dump on my eyes either. I don’t know that I would recommend anyone seeing it, but I can say that I would rather watch this again before seeing Evil Weed, or even Dazed and Confused. Yeah, I hated that movie, but that’s another post.
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