Smiley Face (2007)

Maybe this is funny if you're actually stoned. When taken sober, not so much.

Working from a script by TV actor Dylan Haggerty, [director] Araki manages to capture what he's been trying to say all along about the lives of the stoned and indifferent with the kind of effortlessness those earlier attempts sorely lacked.

It's a fittingly loose, shambling little nothing of a comedy that's occasionally inspired, but at least a draft or two short of its potential. Still, it's a pleasure to watch Faris wander slack-jawed through a surreal day in Los Angeles.

Anna Faris is alternately hilarious and annoying in this stoner comedy.

This is a full-force, all-purpose performance by Faris with the kind of grace that would get winks from the likes of silent screen greats.

Smiley Face belongs to Faris, an actress who is some kind of treasure.

Faris gamely goes Garbo and Lombard one better, taking her cute little firecracker looks and being willing to go full-out to appear appropriately, hilariously awful when the story calls for it.

The real reason to invest your time is Anna Faris, America’s best-kept comedy secret and long overdue for the kind of major stardom her male counterparts enjoy as a matter of course.

Araki's latest is surprisingly mellow in its examination of ganja-fueled apathy.