Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It
Three lifelong hustlers embark on overlapping road missions involving a drug deal, marijuana legalization, and a disputed inheritance while their nemeses chase them toward jail.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- irreverent
- vulgar
- deadpan
- cult comedy night
- road trip movie marathon
What critics said
Critics generally recognized the film's loyalty to the television series' crude ensemble style, but found its episodic road-trip plotting and humor uneven.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Julian, Ricky, and Bubbles navigate criminal schemes, marijuana business pressures, and confrontations through profane, low-rent comic behavior.
Julian pursues a Montreal drug delivery, Ricky opposes marijuana legalization, and Bubbles searches for an inheritance while Lahey and Randy pursue them.
The trio's road trip and criminal plans are continually complicated by Cyrus, Lahey, Randy, and their own impulsive decisions.
Julian is broke after jail, Ricky protects his dope business, and the characters pursue money through improvised illicit ventures.
Films like Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It, and why
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
mockumentary-derived ensemble comedy with crude humor, chaotic criminal schemes, and an irreverent cult sensibility
Pineapple Express
rough-edged road comedy centered on petty criminals, drug-related schemes, and escalating farce
The Big Lebowski
raunchy ensemble comedy featuring incompetent criminals, drug culture, and anarchic humor
Fubar
cult Canadian comedy with low-rent criminals, eccentric characters, and deadpan absurdity
Movie Details
- Director
- Mike Clattenburg
- Release Date
- 2014-04-18
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 (81)
Cast
- John Paul Tremblay
- Robb Wells
- Mike Smith
- John Dunsworth
- Patrick Roach
- Jonathan Torrens
- Sarah Dunsworth
- Lucy Decoutere
- Molly Dunsworth
Common questions
- What is Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It about?
- Three lifelong hustlers embark on overlapping road missions involving a drug deal, marijuana legalization, and a disputed inheritance while their nemeses chase them toward jail.
- What is Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It as mild.
- What did critics think of Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It?
- Critics generally recognized the film's loyalty to the television series' crude ensemble style, but found its episodic road-trip plotting and humor uneven.
- Which films are like Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It?
- Films with a similar feel include Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Pineapple Express, The Big Lebowski, and Fubar.
- How long is Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It?
- Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It runs 95 minutes.
