10 Movies You Should Only Watch Stoned

4. Encino Man

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If you expected to see any Pauly Shore movie on this list, it was probably Bio-Dome, the movie that makes Dumb & Dumber look like Citizen Kane. But whereas Bio-Dome is more of a movie to get you into the spirit of toking up, it's actually the little-seen Encino Man that's the perfect viewing experience for someone who's already toasted.

Given the plot - two high school outcasts find a frozen caveman buried in their backyard and thaw him out so they can introduce him to modern civilization - this is like watching a BBC documentary about evolution, except Brendan Frasier is the subject, Pauly Shore and Samwise Gamgee are your narrators, and there's a training montage that a caveman practicing pro wrestling moves.

There's also a pivotal scene where Shore's character expounds on the anguish of under-microwaving a frozen burrito, turning your delicious snack experience into a barely warm disappointment. "Hot on the outside, icicle in the middle," he declares. And a little piece of you dies inside.

But then Frasier-as-caveman beats the !*$% out of the school bully by using those wrestling moves he learned earlier in the film, and everything is all good again.

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