If there’s one defining clip from Showtime’s “Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain,” the new documentary about the pioneering hip-hop group, it’s the sight of a 30-foot inflatable stage Buddha emerging from the bong smoke like the beast from the fog in The Hound of the Baskervilles, or the landing of the mothership in Spielberg’s “Close Encounters.” It’s excessive and ridiculous and eerily Spinal Tap-ish, but it captures all the bravado and hijinks and ‘give-it-a-go’ attitude of a group trying to make sense of the landscape they’ve invented.
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