Product Description

Based on the propaganda film from 1936 that has become a cult hit, Reefer Madness is the height of camp entertainment! Framed as a "documentary", a straight-laced high school principal (Alan Cumming) seeks to impart his wisdom about the demon weed by telling a frightful tale about the fate of two innocent teens who fall under the spell of the drugs. Filled with outrageously funny and musical performances by Neve Campbell, Christian Campbell, Kristen Bell and Steven Weber, Reefer Madness is the feel good event of the year!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10708 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 112 minutes

Amazon.com
If the idea of making a musical out of Roger Corman's Z-movie quickie The Little Shop of Horrors sounded weird, stick around for the all-singing, all-dancing Reefer Madness. Deliriously based on the notorious 1936 anti-pot social-guidance film, this is an ultra-campy enterprise that lands somewhere between Rocky Horror and a John Waters comedy. Christian Campbell and the spritzy Kristen Bell play the innocent teens lured into a soul-sapping cloud of marijuana dependence by pencil-mustached pusher Steven Weber and his long-suffering dame, Ana Gasteyer. The cast includes femme fatale Amy Spanger and a cameo by Neve Campbell, who dances her way through one sequence. The musical was written and composed by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, who re-create some of the kookiest scenes from the original movie ("Faster! Faster!"). Their funniest idea is to frame the sordid saga with a black-and-white story of a government agent showing a public-service film to horrified small-town citizens; he's played by the reliably sinister Alan Cumming, who also pops up in a variety of guises in the film-within-the-film. The only problem with this made-for-Showtime version of the stage show is that camp tends to wear thin, especially at 109 minutes, despite the expert song parodies. Even the original hour-long Reefer Madness got old quick. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

Just what I thought.
this DVD was okay. Given the title, i didn't expect much, but there were some surprisingly great vocal performances despite the really lame plot. Not a bad film to watch, but probably only once!

My Favorite Musical
If you're into musicals, satire, comedy, or Kristen Bell, this is the movie for you.

Even on a shallow level this film will have you laughing from start to finish. If you're paying close attention, and know a little bit about the political drug history of the United States, there's also many, many subtle jokes hidden throughout the movie - note the name of the High school.

I can't think of a single reason why anybody should pass this movie by.

High Times for Reefer Maddness
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical is a great time to be had by all. With great musical numbers, screwball humor, and a satirical undertone, how could you go wrong. There is some great character acting in this movie and it needs to be seen at least once for that alone, and it gives a good fresh feel to the "Musical" genre. This film is all highs and no lows, in fact one could say it gets crazier the more it goes on.