‘Evil Bong 420’ is such a tease of a movie, its unreal. Picking up almost immediately after the events of ‘Gingerdead Man Vs Evil Bong’ the films whole schtick seems to be ‘What is the plot of this movie going to be!?’ but not in a self aware and interesting way…In a ‘our budget is 20 cents and a band aid and we have David Decoteau available to film for half a day’ kind of way.

What the ACTUAL plot is, is as follows: We pick up a couple months after the events of ‘Gingerdead’ and Rabbit has escaped the bong world and has set up *probably* the worlds first stripper, weed fueled, bowling ally that also happens to sell a CRAP ton of ‘Full Moon’ merchendise. ‘Hilarity’ ensues. Seriously, thats the main drag of the plot here. Just Rabbit dealing with the CER-AAAAZY people who would frequent a stripper, weed fueled Bowling Ally. Including several naked women, Decoteau, Ooga Booga (AGAIN for some reason…Jesus christ) and a half pig, half man celebrity called ‘Hambo’. Not to mentiona all the ‘Comedy Stoners’

well…thats not ALL that happens here. Its an ‘Evil Bong’ movie…not that you’d know it, as the B-plot of this film consists of the Gingerdead Man (Who’s still trapped in the Bong world) getting fed up of nakedness, unending pleasure and more weed than he can handle. And decides, he wants to go and hang out with Rabbit for a bit. Ebee tries to keep Ginger in the Bong world by telling him she’ll go get Rabbit. and promptly dissapears.

Does this lead to a funny slapsticky runaround where Ebee tries to find Rabbit and Gingerdead gets bored and starts slashing? NO SILLY! these bits are all shot on a greenscreen! Instead it just means that Ebee just dissapears from the film for a large chunk of the 53 MINUTE RUNTIME. only turning up to continue to reassure Gingerdead that she’s working on getting Rabbit. and she turns up on an actual set at the very VERY end of the movie, and I dont think it’s spoilers to say that she turns up 10 seconds off the end of the film. says a single line and the film just stops mid flow. thats it.

Neither of these plots interact with each other till the closing 5 minutes. and when I mentioned earlier that this films theme seems to be ‘Whats the plot?’ I wasnt kidding. Decoteau turns up at the very beginning and offers to pay Rabbit $50 to shoot a haunted bowling ball movie in his ally (dropping a ‘slimeball bowl-a-rama’ reference in for good measure) So we as an audience then think: “Ahh! okay! thats the movie! Ebee and Gingerdead stoning and slashing up a movie shoot in the bowling ally! nice!

NO! Because Decoteau? is never seen again past that opening scene. Then Larnell turns up with Sarah Leigh, and we think ‘Ahh! okay they going to have a final showdown with Ebee and Gingerdead’ NO! doesnt happen. Then its revealed that Larnell and Sarah Lee are sort of dating, but that Larnell is still seeing his old girlfriend and you think ‘Ahh! its going to be a love triangle thing’ NOT REALLY! because while that plot point DOES get picked up. It doesnt get addressed till about 10 minutes off the end of the movie.

Hambo mentions to Rabbit that he needs some capital to get his career relaunch underway, and you think ‘This has GOT to be it surely!?’ NOPE! mentioned once and then forgotten. Rabbit himself has WAY more Full Moon merch to hock through this thing and you think ‘Decoteau and Full Moon merch!? AND Charles Band is directing!?…okay maybe this is gonna be a rags to ritches thing’ NOPE. non of that has ANY impact on the plot apart from an invention Rabbit unveils called the ‘Weed Blower’ which just blows a weed ploom into someones face to chill them out…and in the most aggregious scene in the movie. The asian tourists from ‘Gingerdead v Evil Bong’ turn up again…and Rabbit proudly unveils a HORRENDOUSLY racist statue of the male tourist, saying he got ‘Inspired’…The statues called ‘The Gook.’…Jesus Christ.

I guess what im saying is that this film is completely and totally aimless as a written work. its 50 minutes of people acting INCREDIBLY stupid, saying really stupid things and like most people under the influence…not a whole lot is actually achieved by the end of the session.

I do however have to question the moral ethics of making a film thats predominantly going to be viewed by people stoned off their mind or otherwise mentally incapcitated, where the only thing that IS clealry pushed across the full runtime is the message that you need to buy as much ‘Evil Bong’ and ‘Full Moon’ merch as possible because they’re SO amazing!

Like…the whole film is best described as ‘Hey boobs! (buy our merch) isnt weed amazing!? (buy our merch) WOW that kill (one of 2 in the movie) WAS SO GORY AND AWESOME!!! (Buy our merch). Its positive reinforcement strategy across the films runtime was unnerving to me honestly. Being blunt (heh) this might as well be a 50 minute advert wrapped in the marketing of a movie.

The scripts largely directionless, pacing is to the wall, the tones all over the place, the characters are crude and offensive stereotypes, it feels like some kind of ‘MK Ultra’ experiment to see how much hold a film company can have over stoners.

The cast are all dialled up to 11, are delivering lines seemingly however the hell they want, theres no consistency, seemingly no cast direction. its a mess. Thats not to mention the HEAVILY recycled soundtrack or the CGI here which is BEYOND atrocious…This is a studio production. and for 2015 NORMAL PEOPLE could recreate some of these effects in there own homes…

Hell, they dont even seemingly have the budget for an outdoor shoot this time. Everything takes place in a single set and on a greenscreen stage…and thatss it. its SUCH a cheap movie…its unreal.

In fact, if it wasnt for the fact that this film from a direction standpoint looks *margianlly* better than the previous entry in terms of more creative lighting choices, and clear communication between Band and the Crew. The cine is sharper, with more B-roll to help support the sequences and a better emphasis on shot composition (largely to make the merch look nicer). And the fact its mercifully short at 53 minutes (including titles and credits) This would probably be the worst of the bunch to date.

A super cheap, rambling, messy toy commercial of a picture. Theres something genuinely quite unpleasent about this one. and Im STILL hung up on the fact that the ‘Evil Bong’ franchise is now 5 entries in, and the titular ‘Evil Bong’ is the LEAST prominent character and does almost NOTHING in this movies…Its astounding… I absolutely wont recommend it. despite its technical improvements. This things a stink bomb make no mistake.

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