I had never heard of this movie until I stumbled across it on Sky Movies, I had a quick look at the trailer, thought it looked interesting enough so I gave it a watch. As the opening credits roll we are told that it is based on a true story, I am not sure how loosely this is but there were definitely some parts of Kid Cannabis which I found very unrealistic and bizarre.
The story follows two teenage, high school dropout stoners with no hope of ever making a decent living with a standard job. They spend most of their time getting high, trying to fit in at parties and score drugs. Before long they realise that they have an opportunity to get rich quick by becoming drug smugglers, smuggling marijuana over the boarder of Canada to America. One will run, across country through the woods with a backpack full of Marijuana while the other drives across the borders security in an empty car and meets him on the other side. This is where the story starts to get a little too unbelievable for my liking.
On their first trip to Canada they dig a boat out of a lake and sell it for $1800, they then get ripped off for their money by a dealer who sells them cheap drugs. Then on their second trip to Canada they bump into a girl at a petrol station who is smoking, she just so happens to be the daughter of a massive drug supplier who runs a marijuana farm. They are introduced and within 5 minutes they have their Canadian supplier, and it's that easy. Secondly, They then go back to America to try and find a contact to which they can sell the weed to in bulk. Again, within 5 minutes, they have a deal in place with a well-known drug kingpin, apparently it's that easy. The lads then unknowingly move next door to their local drug dealing rival and one of the lad's mothers has no problem that her son is snuggling millions of dollars of drugs over the border.
Kid Cannabis did entertain me but the fact it stated to be a true story and had so many unbelievable aspects made it hard for me to really get immersed into the movie.
Worth a watch if you have nothing else to do, it is an easy watching film but has many flaws in my opinion
6/10
The story follows two teenage, high school dropout stoners with no hope of ever making a decent living with a standard job. They spend most of their time getting high, trying to fit in at parties and score drugs. Before long they realise that they have an opportunity to get rich quick by becoming drug smugglers, smuggling marijuana over the boarder of Canada to America. One will run, across country through the woods with a backpack full of Marijuana while the other drives across the borders security in an empty car and meets him on the other side. This is where the story starts to get a little too unbelievable for my liking.
On their first trip to Canada they dig a boat out of a lake and sell it for $1800, they then get ripped off for their money by a dealer who sells them cheap drugs. Then on their second trip to Canada they bump into a girl at a petrol station who is smoking, she just so happens to be the daughter of a massive drug supplier who runs a marijuana farm. They are introduced and within 5 minutes they have their Canadian supplier, and it's that easy. Secondly, They then go back to America to try and find a contact to which they can sell the weed to in bulk. Again, within 5 minutes, they have a deal in place with a well-known drug kingpin, apparently it's that easy. The lads then unknowingly move next door to their local drug dealing rival and one of the lad's mothers has no problem that her son is snuggling millions of dollars of drugs over the border.
Kid Cannabis did entertain me but the fact it stated to be a true story and had so many unbelievable aspects made it hard for me to really get immersed into the movie.
Worth a watch if you have nothing else to do, it is an easy watching film but has many flaws in my opinion
6/10