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Title: Deet n Bax Save th’ World (2015) Director: Diablo Dean Writer: Chris Baier // Diablo Dean Studio: TruEarth Entertainment // Keef Army Films IMDb Plot: A bloody stoner odyssey full of sex, guns ‘n weed. Joe Says: This isn’t so much a film as it is a series of half-baked vignettes spitballed together with duct-tape and rolling paper. But beneath the gross-out gags and bong-water brained jokes Deet ‘n Bax Save th’ World possesses some genuinely hilarious, unfiltered moments.

Stoner comedies aren’t built for logic—they’re built for vibes, giggles, and the kind of plot that floats away if you exhale too hard. So yeah, while Deet ‘n Bax Save th’ World doesn’t really save the world, it does spark up a chaotic buddy adventure filled with weed, wild-eyed mad science, and more WTF moments then found at a late-night White Castle run.

Jason Mewes—the snootchie-bootchies king from Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back—smokes his way through this jawn like a pharmaceutical kahuna. Of the chronic duo, he’s Deet, a slacker with the ambition of a sea cucumber, matched only in dulled-out apathy by Craig Michaelson’s Bax. Together they stumble into a gig for sleazy druglord/topless lounge owner Javier (Weston Cage), lose his precious marijuana seeds, and somehow get targeted by a lunatic scientist using potent salmon (let’s say…) “by-product” to breed (why not?!) super-soldiers.

This isn’t so much a film as it is a series of half-baked vignettes spitballed together with duct-tape and rolling paper.

Plot? Loose. Structure? Questionable. Logic? Nonexistent. But none of that matters, because what Deet ‘n Bax does have is energy. Raw, sloppy, juvenile energy. And beneath the gross-out gags and bong-water brained jokes there are some genuinely hilarious, unfiltered moments. The highlight reel for this one is when the duo try to run from the police on Javier’s boat while attempting to hide those precious seeds. The scene is equal parts slapstick and stoner fever dream. Really, it shouldn’t work, but in the hallowed name of Mel Brooks it surely does.

Mewes and Michaelson riff off each other like two couch-dwellers stuck in a buddy cop acid trip, and while neither will be nominated for Oscar gold, the (ahem) chemistry is real. Weston Cage (yup, from that Cage lineage) leans hard into cartoon villainy with all the gusto of a ‘90s pro wrestler, while Cassandra Deever, as the film’s unlikely heroine Amanda, delivers both charm and roundhouse kicks.

The mastermind behind the madness is Diablo Dean, a filmmaker who deserves your attention. The movie might have the polish of a thrift-store lava lamp, but Dean’s vision is clear: make it loud, make it weird, and make it anyway. So say we all.

No, this isn’t high art but it sure as hell gets high. If you’re sober, chances are this high flying comedy is too far out for us mere mortals who trod upon the grounded soil. So brace yourself. Deet ‘n Bax Save th’ World is wholly immature. But it’s also got heart, grit… and a whole lotta other bodily fluids.