As stoner comedy duos go, Angela and Jessie aren’t nearly as famous as Harold and Kumar or Cheech and Chong. But the main characters of writer-director Augustine Frizzell’s underrated 2018 film “Never Goin’ Back” deserve a place alongside those stoner-comedy icons, and their movie is one of the funniest, most entertaining entries in the subgenre over the past 20 years.
I was lucky enough to catch “Never Goin’ Back” during its brief and extremely limited theatrical run, and it immediately earned a place alongside my favorite stoner movies. The plot is classic stoner comedy fare, as teenage high school dropouts and suburban diner waitresses Angela (Maia Mitchell) and Jessie (Camila Morrone) encounter a series of obstacles in their quest for a simple but seemingly unattainable goal (a weekend at the beach).
