The US spent the entire 1980s freaking out about the possibility of children using drugs, and Nancy Reagan's solution was JUST SAY NO. Therefore it's no accident that a cartoon got made telling the tykes to avoid controlled substances.Well, aside from the fact that "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" features characters that people in the 2010s likely will have forgotten ever existed, its message is all wrong. While we should focus on keeping children from using narcotics, moralistic grandstanding is a guaranteed failure. The so-called War on Drugs has devastated entire communities in the US and overfilled our prisons, all the while turning Mexico into a near failed state. The right choice is what Portugal has done: it decriminalized drugs and treats drug usage as a health issue, not a crime. In fact, drug usage has DROPPED in Portugal ever since they decriminalized drugs. Many states in the US have allowed medical marijuana for years. Washington and Colorado both voted in legalized recreational marijuana use - soon to become law in Oregon - and their economies have benefited from it (my conclusion is that opposition legalized recreational marijuana use is, well, anti-capitalism). In fact, I heard a speech from Rick Steves (host of a travel show on PBS) stumping for Oregon's recently passed measure, and he noted that many European countries provide people with needles during their treatment to ensure that they don't buy the drugs from dealers. Pragmatism has proved to be the right way, while criminalization is the modern equivalent of prohibition (which only succeeded in strengthening the mafia).What I'd like to see is a short in which a boy is in a religious fundamentalist family shoving their ideology down his throat...but then the characters from cult movies and TV shows or anything liked by nerds/geeks - Elvira, Ash (of the "Evil Dead" movies), Spock, etc - explain science to him until he has the courage to tell his parents that he doesn't accept the religious dogma. Maybe some of them smoke a joint at the end and remind the audience that marijuana is NOT an addictive drug.

I watched this a week or two ago in RAID(Reduce Abuse in Drugs) Our police officer left us this video to watch. We watch a video every week and this one was SO funny. I was sitting beside my friend, Wenster and we were both laughing together. We were told not to laugh but it was too funny. Of course it was not pointless because it was about drugs, but it was weird. It won't only change my life, but it will change yours as well! Nope. Jokes. But it was quite funny and anything but pointless. Watch this at school and you will be laughing nonstop but also getting the message at the same time. Its good, but stupid.Check it out.

This film spends a lot of time preaching against marijuana. However, the plot and visuals are so insane that it seems more like the poster-child for LSD.Plot: The heroic struggle of Michael as he battles his drug addiction while being subjected to the humiliation brought on by the likes of Winnie the Pooh and Papa Smurf.Yea, yea, there's a good message, but it's obscured by the fact that the writers have taken a rather stale PSA idea and tried stretching it into 30 minutes. This includes a song sequence, where you're told that there's a million, rational ways to say "No!" such as "I can't smoke pot, I have homework!"The writers can't make up their minds what to do with the characters they've brought in royalty-free. At first we see they all have to hide from the human characters, but within five minutes we see them all running around in plain sight without anyone noticing. Soon they begin interacting with the human cast, and the only one who's even slightly disturbed by this fact is not the drug-abusers, it's the little sister who talks to her teddy bear (Pooh, by the way.) Further, there's the little drug demon floating around. Because you know, pushers don't give kids drugs. He too is ambiguous - while he might be symbolic of Michael's addiction and hence is not supposed to be seen by other people, he laters goes and haunts little Corey to get HER into drugs. So I guess he's...uhhh.....moving on!The whole plot finally culminates in some insane sequence in which Michael is in what would appear to be the Saturday Morning Carnival of Souls, aka a theme park from hell where the various cartoon characters beat him up and ignore him and stuff. For example, Miss Piggy eats him in a sandwich and spits him out. If the writers were not high when writing this, I must recommend they try getting high because they can't get crazier than this. Of course, the film ignores the fact that Michael's been having highs for two years by this point, so why this tripping sequence would frighten him is beyond me.I realize I'm completely whaling on this film, but I actually just saw it again because I went through the trouble of tracking it down on eBay because of it's sheer infamy of being a BAD cartoon. The level of unintentional humor is is brilliant. Take this scene for example - Michael's dad is rooting through the fridge for a beer. He notices many of them missing and mentions it to his wife. The ever-observant Mom tells him "Don't worry, you probably just drank them last night watching football." While we're obviously supposed to be learning that Michael is drinking beer (in addition to the pot and crack), we instead read further in and realize - Hey kids, it's okay to have chemical dependencies as long as you're a grown-up! Scenes like this are worth the tiny price tag of this film. Oh yea, and the fact you get to hear Simon the Chipmunk say "Marijuana."

If there's one thing I want to distinguish myself from all the other great reviewers here, it's that I am the Queen of Finding Strange Movies in Thrift and Dollar Stores. That said, you can't possibly imagine how happy I was when I found this one. I can even remember that Saturday morning when *every* station simulcast it, so you were stuck if you wanted to watch something else (then again, I guess that was the idea). As a kid, I didn't know if I liked the way all the different characters were stuck together (there are some crossovers that just do *not* work). But I guess the special had it's intended effect. Don't do drugs because you will have nightmares about the Muppets.Now, if you watch this as an adult, on the other hand, you will be treated to the *strangest* anti-drug movie this side of "Reefer Madness". I think I'll just leave it at that before I get into trouble.