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Summary: Plot-Free Pot-Fest -- Big Whoop about Very Little!
Review: Definitely DATED, this film has 70s "High Times" written all over it. These guys have not much more than "pot" on their brain. All jokes lead to the same subject...dope, man! Cheech and Chong, already celebrated novelty song artists with several best-selling albums to their credit just had to take their "message" to the next level. "Up In Smoke" gave them plenty of exposure and secured a solid fandom. 25 years later, though, the laughs drop drastically on the dime-bag-scale. When I was still in high school (and I didn't give in to the smoking of anything, then or now), I may have enjoyed this sort of nonsense more. As a middle aged intellectual, I can offer only a few tired smirks. Give me Laurel & Hardy instead!**
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Summary: best stoner movie ever!
Review: hello cheech and chong fans i may only be a teenager but i have been a fan for like 4 years now and this is the funniest movie i have ever seen might be the best comedy ever!.and if ypur going to order a cheech and chong movie get this one but if i were you and you had some money to spend buy all of them and all of there cd's.and im so glad chong is finaly out of prison and to all of you die hard c and c fans the new cheech and chong movie is going to start production in september chong and cheech were both on jay leno on july 9th so there back together for awhile. anyways dont get to high later.
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Summary: A tokin' cult classic
Review: For those of you who grew up in the 70's, Cheech & Chong where the Laurel & Hardy or Abbott & Costello of those times. Seeing this film in DVD is a joy, since I must have seen it on tape more than a 100 times, till it was unwatchable. Now, for the first time we can see the film in it's original panoramic (widescreen) format, and for those who saw it before on tape, you'll see all you've missed before. The copy is pristine clear, and it includes a load of deleted scenes, some actually funnier than what we saw on the original run of the film. Included on those missing scenes, is the infamous one featuring Harry Dean Stanton, who doesn't remember ever appearing in a Cheech & Chong film. Plus there is an audio commentary by Cheech himself and Lou Adler, the director, who prior to this, had never directed a film before. You'll be astonished to learn how much this film influenced other people, guys like Quentin Tarantino, for example, not to mention the numerous rock groups who grew up watching this guys and re-recorded their music. All in all, a real pleasure to discover this seminal gem from the 70's, given it's full use or advantage on DVD. If you saw this guys' films way back then, do yourself a favor, and get hold of this DVD. For those too young to remember them, but who heard of them from an older brother or "stoner" uncle, get hold of it and discover what kept us laughing during those daze, er, uh, days. Filmakers of today, take notice that films can be made without a million cuts per second and only with long continous shots.
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Summary: Very Funny
Review: Now I've seen a few Cheech & Chong films but I don't remember any of them and after I saw this on a shelf at my friends house I decided to borrow it and watch it. Well, it is a realyl funny movie. If I remember the other movies correctly, I believe this is the best film of them all. The movie is about Pedro(Cheech Marin) a mexican stoner who picks up Man(Tommy Chong) while he's hitchhiking. The two begin to smoke weed and try to score some more, all the while being pulled over by cops, and being chased by some bumbling, idiotic undercover cops. They eventually end up in Mexico and end up driving a van made completely out of marijuana. One line in this movie that I found funny and kind of shows you what the humor is like in the movie is when a cop pulls over Pedro and Man and asks if they have any illegal substances in the vehicle, to which Pedro replies "not anymore man." Very funny and entertaining. A-.
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Summary: Igpays! Igpays! Vamoos!
Review: What can I say about this movie that hasnt already been said except that it's one of my all time favorites. I watched my VHS copy so many times it doesnt play anymore so of course I had to get the DVD. I still find this movie very funny, but feel the last 30 minutes or so tend to drag a bit. Maybe because the punk music concert is a bit dated. Nevertheless this movie has some of the funniest lines and gags ever. Just a few:
"I didn't know your name was Alex man"
Cheech "Am I driving ok?" Chong "I think we're parked man"
"I wasn't looking at his neck"
Cheech to Chong on the phone "Don't answer the phone even if it's me calling"
Gloria the drug dealing cop. The police dog that ends up stiff on his back after sniffing the van made of pot.
And of course the "bevy" of nuns that are wrongfully busted.
Buy this movie when you just want to sit back and laugh.
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Summary: Bonus Material, Great Picture, Funny Movie!
Review: Cheech Martin, and Tommy Chong's Up In Smoke is perhaps one of the funnist rock n roll comedy movies ever! Featured with many bonus material including feature length commentary with cheech martin, and director lou adler, delted scenes with commentary, theatrical trailer, widscreen version enhanced for 16:9 TV's, Dolby Digital, english subtitles, and interactive menu's. Cheech, and Chong have a marijuana-humor in this movie that really makes it really funny expesically Chong's drum playing towards the end of the movie, and Cheech's pink tuto with a guitar in hand, this will make you laugh guarnteed! This is without a doubt the best Cheech, and Chong movie ever. Get Up In Smoke Now!
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Summary: laughoutloud
Review: Nostalgia for my childhood recently caused me to buy and watch the Cheech and Chong movies (with the exception of The Coriscan Brothers). Aside from realizing I shouldn't have been watching those movies in my pre-teen days, I realized how well done they are. Most amazing to me was that they held up one after the other, feeling not repetitive, though each of them is rather episodic. Most impressive was Chong's direction; he makes a number of interesting choices that elevate him beyond the status of writer/star who has enough power to direct; clearly, he took this role quite seriously. The movies, of course, are not serious. I rarely laugh out loud in movies these days, but I did at least a half dozen times in each of these. The characters are not only given funny situations in which to work and funny lines to deliver, but each of them is presented with a kind of earnestness that makes them likeable, and the films all he more watchable.
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Summary: A wonderful, hilarious, period piece
Review: This movie is something of a cult classic - it captures the essence of a time & a group of people that really existed (more or less), and captures them with total hilarity. This cheech & chong movie has aged incredibly well, with the scenery & soundtracks being still perfect. If you haven't listened to cheech & chong's old cds (from their radio programs), they can be hilarious too.
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Summary: "My mama's talkin to me, tryin' to tell me how to live!"
Review: Out of all the Cheech & Chong collaborations, their first film, 1978's Up In Smoke still stands as the best. A comedy classic that just can't be duplicated, not even by themselves. The plot (can you guess?) concerns two dudes, Pedro (Cheech) & Man (Chong) and their search for the best weed, rock music, and good times, man. Of course this journey comes with a price, evading a group of "undercover" cops led by the obsessed Sgt. Stedenko (Stacy Keach). If you like cars, you'll no doubt enjoy Pedro's Love Machine, which he decorated himself, and the van made completely out of pot! Watch out for that smoke. A few of the funniest scenes come from this van: 1. When the cop pulls them over and forgets why! and 2. When Stedenko and crew stand next to the smoking van and feel the influence, then order some pizzas! If you like to rock, then you've got that too. To quote the concert announcer - "...I don't know who they are, but here's ALICE BOWIE." Being a drummer myself, I'm more than a little jealous of Chong's gigantic drumsticks! However, I'm not jealous of Cheech's tu-tu! The characters Cheech & Chong created began to wear out in later films, but don't count this one out. Up In Smoke is when it was new and fresh and somehow it still "smokes" to this day. Some comments on the DVD: One reviewer stated that the DVD doesn't have any features, but that's just not true. I just bought the 2000 Paramount DVD release and it has the following: *Widescreen Version for 16:9 TVs
*Feature Length Commentary with Cheech Marin & Director Lou Adler
*8 Deleted Scenes (including Harry Dean Stanton as a security guard) with optional commentary by Cheech & Lou Adler
*Original Theatrical Trailer
*Dolby Digital: English 5.1 Surround/Restored English Mono
*English Subtitles A great way to own a comedy classic and Paramount has given a little something to the fans with this DVD release. Don't even sleep on it, just get this primo disc, man!
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