Remember when he used to be funny? Man, what happened? Weren’t people saying he was supposed to be the next great black comedian several years ago? … Oh, wait. It’s shot through an Instagram-y lens and recalls Snoop’s excellent “Sensual Seduction” video. After a bit of wonkiness, they break into song, as told through a vision of them participating in the school’s talent show. Probably the big takeaway from this whole thing.) Eighth GradeĪfter getting paired up to work on the year’s final project, Snoop eventually gets Wiz high (by giving him weed brownies). Wiz isn’t a great actor, but he is unconscionably charming. Because that’s how and when they hand out scholarships to Yale. Overstreet’s most pressing concern is that he hasn’t had enough life experience to deliver a truly exceptional speech at graduation, which is important because someone from Yale might possibly be there watching and handing out scholarships. He is the likely valedictorian of the school’s senior class (there are about 15 kids enrolled, it looks like). Wiz plays a brainy student named Devin Overstreet. The guys who wrote The Wire must’ve worked on this screenplay a little.
#Slow burn from mac and devin movie
The antagonist in the movie is the assistant principal. He’s like a cross between Huggie Bear and David Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China. I talked to him for six or seven minutes before I realized I’d just been talking to an old leather massage chair in Brookstone. I remember I ran into Snoop once at the mall. But for real, he looks like he’s about 600 years old. More on the age thing: If Snoop is a 15-year senior, that puts him in his early 30s in the movie, and that’s fairly close since he’s 40 in real life. He’s been a senior at the school for 15 years, a potential plot problem that they eliminate early on by implying that he’s avoided expulsion because he routinely has sex with the principal, played by Luenell, whom you’ll maybe remember as the obese hooker with whom Borat nearly falls in love in Borat. Snoop plays Mac, arch hustler and the school’s marijuana peddler.
#Slow burn from mac and devin for mac
(See the Character Range chart above for role analysis and corresponding placement for Mac & Devin.) Fourth Grade His four seminal roles: the reincarnated gangster in Bones, the pilot in Soul Plane, the paraplegic drug dealer in Training Day, and the boob enthusiast in Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style. Snoop, however, has been in a grip of films. Outside of music videos, this is the first time Wiz Khalifa has acted (unless you count how he acts like Amber Rose isn’t the worst thing of all, in which case he’s a young Morgan Freeman). In my head, I imagine they were like, “Yeah, he’ll give this grand speech and it’ll be so profound and moving that everyone will stand up and applaud.” Mostly, I just wanted him to shut the hell up. At the end of the film, he soliloquizes about how joyful and fantastic weed is, how geniuses smoke it, and how the world would be a better place if everyone else did, too.
More on Slow Burn: He pops up occasionally during the movie to give commentary.
That’s the same way they started Schindler’s List, too, in case you were wondering.
The very first thing said in the movie is, “Man, this girl’s trying to fuck up my dick.” It’s delivered by a CGI joint (FOR REAL) named Slow Burn, voiced by Mystikal (FOR REAL).
But let’s run through a few gems from it anyway. Fundamentally, it’s no different than, say, Kid ‘n Play’s 1992 movie Class Act (smart kid has to team up with bad kid so the bad kid can learn to be smart and the smart kid can learn to be bad and they both learn life lessons along the way). As mentioned, it stars Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg. And I rented it and watched it because it’s part of my job because I am not very good at being alive. It’s one of those straight-to-DVD/VOD affairs. It’s called Mac & Devin Go to High School.
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