The Blur of Insanity

Touted as the next inductee into the pantheon of stoner/college flicks that includes Dazed and Confused and Animal House, The Blur of Insanity is not as good as those films. More than that, I can't really say. I was so baked when I saw it. KIDDING! But, wow, are there ever a lot of drugs! The movie's crowning achievement must be one of the more extended and involved (realistic? how should I know?!) LSD scenes in film history. Add omnipresent cigarettes, a healthy dose of bong hits, and enough booze to kill a football captain many times over and hilarity ensues. Thrill as five burnouts toss a candy machine off the roof! Marvel as they try to get 4.0s without doing a lick of work! Delight at their ingenious cheating techniques! Jeer at the evil professor who stalks the boys in their forest hideout! Cheer as they beat the system! Throw in some high-powered shotguns, a few explosives, and some tempting ladies of the night and you've got a really dumb but pretty funny motion picture. And though Blur deals almost exclusively in clichés, this jaded critic more than once brushed aside a wistful tear when reminded of his own heady college days. (Without the stolen candy machines, the cheating, the drugs, the explosives, and the ladies of the night, of course).

-- Mike Miliard