Nearly three decades after the smoke cleared on the original Half Baked (1998), the ultimate stoner trio is back — and this time, the world’s gone digital, but they’re still analog as ever.
Thurgood Jenkins (Dave Chappelle) has traded in his lab coat for a delivery van, running a small CBD business out of his cousin’s basement. Scarface (Guillermo Díaz) swears he’s “done with the life” — but he’s one bad day away from breaking parole. And Brian (Jim Breuer)? He’s been meditating for peace… mostly because he can’t afford weed anymore.
When their old friend Kenny finally gets out of prison (after serving the world’s longest sentence for killing a police horse), the guys reunite for one last high-stakes plan — this time to save their neighborhood from a soulless tech corporation trying to bulldoze their favorite community park to build a luxury cannabis megastore.
The solution? Go back to what they do best: getting high and making terrible decisions.
Armed with nothing but a half-baked business idea, a van full of questionable edibles, and a wildly misplaced sense of confidence, Thurgood and the crew launch a mission to outsmart billionaires, outsmoke the competition, and maybe — just maybe — save their city.
Along the way, they encounter social media influencers who can’t roll a joint, AI “weed sommeliers” that keep judging them, and an army of corporate goons who seriously underestimate what three washed-up stoners can do when friendship (and a good strain) is on the line.
But beneath the haze of humor and hijinks, Half Baked 2 carries a surprisingly heartfelt message — about loyalty, aging, and the bittersweet nostalgia of youth. Because while the world’s gotten faster, sharper, and more serious, these three friends remind us that laughter, loyalty, and a little light-up now and then might be exactly what the world needs to chill out again.
💨 “The system’s evolved… but they haven’t.”
