Ripped (2017) User Reviews (22)

what did you expect?

[kamrandad · 6/10 · 24 June 2017]

I'm from an era of great smoker movies: the Friday series, How High, Harold and Kumar, Half Baked etc. It's been years watching a stoner movie, so this film came as a big surprise for me.

I'm a big fan of Russel Peters' stand up acts and I love Faizon Love movies, both are well established comedians on their own. Combining these 2 comedians with weed makes a good formula for a good time!

Of course it isn't as good as the movies I mentioned before, but who cares. Watch it without expectation, you'll be surprised how amusing it is and I wasn't even high myself watching it.

It's an alright entertaining flick, don't get too difficult about plots and characters, it's not the point in this film.

Logically flawed, terribly stupid, outrageously hilarious

[rivblue · 6/10 · 23 November 2019]

This is a prime example of a strictly Fun movie. It had me laughing through almost the entire movie. It was your average stoner movie. It's definitely meant to not be taken seriously. If you think about the flaws in logic you'll just hurt yourself. Light up some buds and watch Ripped.

It made me giggle.

[subxerogravity · 5/10 · 1 July 2017]

Never sure if that's a good thing. Like is that something that comedians Russel Peters and Fazion Love, who star in this film, would want me to say about their stoner flick? I'm going to assume yes because it shows I had fun watching the movie, cause I did.

It's a great stoner premise. Two teen pot heads in the mid-80s get their hands on some supposedly Area 51 chronic that has them snoozing for 30 years.

So you have a lot of jokes about how different life is in 1986 vs 2016. I got the jokes but they were not that funny (With the exception of the visual gag of seeing Peters and Love wearing clothes the teens wore in the 80s, which is more of a getting older joke than an out of time joke).

It was entertaining watching Love's character adapt to the Internet mostly because somehow Love was able to make the adaption seem natural for an out of time man who was mildly interested in this new technology, while other jokes about the 30-year gap seemed forced.

The real funny parts was the plot of these two stoners trying to start a business selling chili and pot. Reminded me of DJ Pooh's movie Burn House, it's just funny watching two stoners trying to be productive.

Then there's the MILF Alex Meneses. I can't recall ever seeing this woman in anything else but she's hot and I would like to see her in something else.

It's no Pineapple Express or Cheech and Chong but only stoners could wake up after a 30-year slumber and get back into their grove so easily. I did laugh or rather I giggled and I had fun and that's what it's all about

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Bad And predictable

[pawanpasupulati · 3/10 · 26 June 2017]

Russel Peters is a great comedian and i have followed him for a long time, but this movie really does not portrait he real talent.

This story is plain obvious and predictable, the acting does not help the movie any better feels like the whole movie was taken in one shot on an Iphone.

All over the place!

[Go_For_The_Jugular · 1/10 · 24 July 2021]

Terrible pacing, terrible jokes, terrible dialog, terrible plot, terrible editing, mostly terrible cast...just all round terrible!

Massive chunks of story missing - woman gets angry with man and walks out of his life...the next time we see her, she's inviting him on a date...and then precedes to have sex with him!

HUH???

hard to watch

[ottoskorzeny-53649 · 2/10 · 15 June 2021]

Hard to watch. Suffered through to the end somehow, and sober.

Ironic that the movie was about stoners, as being high would've mafe it.

Russel Peters used to be funny, but not in this film. Very weak comedy.

[peruhealing · 2/10 · 12 July 2017]

Utterly not worth watching. Peters was a bright comic and I thought I could expect some jokes from him, but he did not deliver. Most of the "comedy" is dumb and not funny. Watched about 20 minutes of the film, none of it was memorable. The script and the acting is painfully weak. Could have been a decent film if Peters said something funny once in a while. Alas, I do not remember a single intelligent and genuinely humorous line. Very weak film.

Was it for money laundering?

[sergioumuaythaibox · 3/10 · 25 June 2017]

I'd start with if they had used Kyle Massey and Vandit Bhat as the main characters going forward from the 80s to 2016 then this movie would've been much better. The thin to next to nothing plot is absurd and makes you groan out loud. Russel Peters is a decent comedian and not a bad actor but in this movie he was just awful and so were the rest of the characters. This is by far the worst weed movie ever. Two young boys smoke CIA grown weed and in 1986 and then they find themselves in 2016. The first thing would happen would be a massive freak out but they seemed quite at ease with the turn of the events. And people who thought they died 30 years ago also didn't seem too surprised or shocked upon their return. Just abysmal.

funny movie

[bgarcialife · 8/10 · 1 July 2017]

This was a pretty funny movie to watch! Your average stoner comedy with a good happy feel to it... totally worth it! It's funny to think how much time has changed and what it would be like to skip the regression of technology. it's been driving me crazy trying to find the song that played in the credits! It's amazing and I really wanna know what it is...any help would be much appreciated :)

Pretty much one of the worst stoner movies

[becsting-22016 · 1/10 · 8 June 2021]

This movie was awful. I gracefully gave it a 30 minute chance. It never got better. In the short time I watched, it had a lot of unnecessary, awkward nudity and lackluster jokes. Even though this movie was a free watch, I feel like I should get compensation. Please do not watch this unless you have nothing else to watch. Even then, just don't. Dont..

Snore out loud

[bleachedlabel · 3/10 · 1 November 2017]

The preview for this movie was far superior to the actual movie. I am a huge fan of Russell Peters and Faizon Love but after 20 minutes of "Ripped", I was ready to for the movie to end.

As expected, the film spews dribble in the form of malicious stereotypes (i.e. potheads are dumb, have no real ambition, and so on). The film doesn't just push stereotypes on the audience, it obnoxiously smothers them with it.

This movie felt like a first draft submitted by a middle school paint- huffer that just discovered weed and the movie: Friday. The best thing about this movie is probably the soundtrack.

There isn't enough weed available to forget this tragedy.

Plain Mediocre Interesting Concept

[hatershavefun · 4/10 · 12 March 2018]

It's a mediocre film with a interesting concept very interesting but yet another movie where something is ruined bc the main character has to go all oh this is so wrong with perfect plan is so wrong boohoo i'm going to ruin it all for my stupid morals that all arbitrary anyways this is the worst trope in film history and it disgusts me

OK movie

[lizaaomar · 4/10 · 31 July 2017]

It wasn't that bad nor that good, especially that Russell peters acts in it and I am not fond of him, it was good to watch it to spend my boring hours but other than that it wasn't that wow, low quality, low budget movie. Lack of actual comedy, usual ending , no plot, no suspense, everything was easy to expect.

It's exactly as funny as you would think.

[gregberne11 · 1/10 · 13 January 2019]

By that obviously I mean it is not funny at all. Not one bit. The jokes are terrible and also so predictable you see every one of them long before they happen. It's terrible even before you get to Russell Peters and whatever whats his name plays the other guy and they are both less funny than... well than anything. Even if you are as high as the characters in this movie (and every single joke is a pot joke you've seen a billion times before like "oh man do you have any munchy-snacks?"), you will not laugh one single time at this movie. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

Disastrous

[omar-95533 · 1/10 · 18 January 2019]

Although I'm a big fan of Russell Peters and like Alex Meneses but this movie is definitely one of the two worst movies I've seen in my 48 years (the other was "Dude, where's my car?" ) , some downfalls, boring acting, lame script, no music , cheesy story . Too bad I wasted one and a half hours watching it hoping it will get better. My bad !

Hilarious

[emmafs-26494 · 10/10 · 7 November 2020]

Yes this film is a bit silly but it's absolutely hilarious. Far fetched too but so are lots of films. My teenagers could not stop laughing and I love seeing them happy.. Give it a go its very funny!!

I can hear my ears listening to things

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 18 July 2017]

Harris (Russell Peters/Vandit Bhatt) and his side kick Reeves (Faizon Love/Kyle Massey) score some super CIA grown alien Area 51 pot on their way to a concert. They wake up 30 years later, hence the pun title...and their van still worked...tires fully inflated...now that was unbelievable. We do the initial shock and adjusting to a new time period routine that should have been funny, but wasn't. Harris drops in on his old girlfriend (Alex Meneses) and has an idea to open a chili-pot restaurant.

The film was light on drama and even lighter on comedy. It was a good idea that was squandered. Needed better actors and dialogue.

Guide: F-word. Implied sex. No nudity.

Somewhat of an acquired taste...

[paul_haakonsen · 4/10 · 10 November 2021]

When I sat down in 2021 to watch the 2017 comedy "Ripped" from writers Billiam Coronel and Brad Epstein, I have to say that I had never even heard about the movie. So all I knew about it was that it was a comedy and that it was a marijuana comedy of sorts from the synopsis. So I figured maybe it would be in the spirit of the good old classic "Cheech & Chong" movies.

And while "Ripped" was watchable, it just didn't really tickle me in the right places. The storyline was sort of a swing and a miss, falling short of being funny to my particular sense of humor. But I am sure that there is an audience out there for movies such as "Ripped".

The acting performances in the movie were adequate. And lead actors Faizon Love and Russell Peters carried the movie quite well with their performances. Of all the people in the movie, I think I was only familiar with Carlos Gómez.

For me, then "Ripped" wasn't much of an entertaining movie, and for a comedy it was frightfully devoid of funny moments. And I didn't even laugh once throughout the course of the movie. So it was a somewhat long 97 minutes to sit through.

My rating of "Ripped" lands on a generous, but less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

A time killer without much substance

[Mikelikesnotlikes · 5/10 · 11 July 2017]

I watched this movie out of curiosity regarding changes in American pot culture. The weird story-line was enough to make me hit the play button but it never really delivered.

There were a few junctions where the story might have benefited if the other path had been pursued. But then we'd all cry 'copy-cat' if the bank account had compounded spectacularly or if the father had stolen their idea and founded Starbucks. There were several obvious diversionary points which, to me, felt like the script was being developed on the fly.

It is juvenile funny in places, but the budget was low, the direction was clichéd, and the script was mediocre.

RIPPED will fill a few hours for an ex-smoker having a nostalgic break.

I wanted this to be better.

[gixxercat · 3/10 · 27 November 2022]

The plot and story from this movie were basic but had potential. Seemed like a good way to kill a little time and relax but unfortunately the acting from Russell Peters was just painful to watch and killed the movie. The acting in general needs improvement but his stood out. It's almost like there is a delay in between each line as they are being read off of a teleprompter. The responses are even worse. The rest of the movie seems forced. This movie struggles to get through each scene and just doesn't flow. I wanted to like this movie but it just fails to deliver.

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone in any state of mind.

Very good "simple" film

[therevesone · 8/10 · 10 May 2019]

It lacks pacing, but apart from that the premise is original, the jokes are good. It's a simple good film. What is interesting is the dialog is quite well found, they are not cheap visual jokes.

Have a laugh while relaxing your mind.

Hilarious and amazing

[warziniackh · 10/10 · 29 July 2020]

I have probably watched this movie 100 times. It is so funny and I can quote it from start to finish. When I first clicked on the movie, I didn't expect it to be so freaking good. Now, I want to watch it every chance I get. I live for this movie and I want to marry the creator.