Mac & Devin Go to High School
2012 · Directed by Dylan C. Brown
Original language: English
- comedy
The story
A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school.
What it’s like
Bright, flat daylight and saturated suburban colour, with the look of a cheap sitcom: fluorescent school corridors, bedroom walls plastered in posters, and a parade of cartoonish set pieces, all rendered in glossy, uniform digital animation-adjacent comedy framing. The sound is loud and clubby, rap-heavy hip-hop bounce that keeps the energy up even in the quieter scenes, with broad, punchy gags landing in quick cuts rather than lingering shots. The vibe is goofy, sun-warmed slacker comedy: lazy, hazy, and unbothered, the kind of thing put on for a weekend afternoon or a late-night laugh with friends. Pacing is brisk and jokey, with a loose, episodic feel where the story keeps circling back to getting high and getting by. Its emotional register stays light; the central pairing of a stressed overachiever and a perpetual senior drifts toward an easy, affectionate friendship, with the odd flash of earnestness. Expect plenty of drug humour, crude sexual jokes, profanity, and slapstick mayhem, with no real menace or gore and no lasting cruelty. It suits viewers who want a raunchy, silly stoner comedy with a hip-hop soundtrack and don't mind juvenile humour.
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