For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The Wackness takes place in the most hip-hop relevant environment for its time. I liked how they managed not only to create an amazing soundtrack consisting of some true hip-hop classics, but also to show how hip-hop is more than just the music. Also, the fact that they got Method man on board made the movie even more hip-hop authentic. All in all, a great cast, good acting, neat period of time, thought-provoking philosophic quotes from Dr. Squires and most important of all a great soundtrack. I really don't get how this movie hasn't got better reviews.

You know when you have a moment not in, but from your life? This is the moment if you were a teenager in the 90's. I'm not even a lover of hip-hop, I lean to metal/post-punk, but this, I don't need high school friends , sometimes I get lonely I guess, and then a tape, a motherf****** tape, goes in there, (either hip-hop or Nintendo), your heart stops, reboots, and your life reboots , younger, fuller, happier, facing yourself many years ago, this is a film that will teach you what you missed and what you've gained from the doing and not doing at the time. This is you, choosing your life at the time, and if outside of the loop, choosing your life before or after. Best teenager movie of all time.

We see youth and elderness ponder about life's big questions. Disguised in a blanket of faux hip hop culture lie keys to a deeper rooted psychological treasure. This is about all you need to know about this film, to find out whether or not you'd like this. I've found previous reviews to drift too far away from the core of this picture: that is, the simple fact that it's as accessible as it'll make the philosophers among us think. Not about higher class philosophical questions, but the mere basics. And while doing that, one can not shake the feeling that it deemed possible for even he/her to be surprised. Brilliant in its simplicity, brilliant in its raw emotions, brilliant in its humor. But none of that would have been accomplished without being brilliant in its own naivety,by aiming for an acceptable viewer response.

This is my first review on IMDb, but this movie deserves more than that. I watched it yesterday at home & it was perfect. The cast, the city and the MUSIC - oh man that just ruled the movie since the beginning. I must say that if you're strongly against drugs don't watch it and also if you think that real life drug dealing works like this, than put your pink glasses down and one more - this ain't a movie about drugs. I would say that this movie shows that not only young people are having problems and issues in their lives but also old people smoke weed and cant deal with their personal stuff either. It very interesting to see 2 completely different guys by age and profession (put together by sellin and smokin weed) could deal with very similar problems. Finding out that real friendship and company of someone you care about and who cares about you is exactly the most important thing you can experience in your life. This whole accompanied by great - AND I MEAN IT !!! great music makes this movie one to remember. And of course "Mr. METH" - as a rastafarian drug dealer was a huge laugh for me.