Very well executed
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... View MoreA film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
... View MoreThe film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
... View MoreGranted I have only seen about 5 minutes of it, The height of the jokes is that "Cheech looks like Burt Renyolds." If your going to make an ongoing joke PLEASE, please please please please PLEEEAAASE make it funny, also it wouldn't hurt to add something else in there as well, the only other joke in this is "Chong looks like Dolly Parton." Could they do more than those look-alike jokes?In my opinion if you want to watch a decent stoner comedy or one that is REMOTELY FUNNY then you have your choices of The Jay and Silent Bob films or your Harold and Kumar films, hell even the original Cheech and Chong movie "Up In Smoke", If you want look-alike jokes then you could make better jokes in 5 minutes about "random celebrity looks like other random celebrity". I do enjoy dumb comedy (as seen above when revealed I like Harold and Kumar) for a fact I enjoy dumber comedies than most people but this crossed the line when they couldn't stop with the same crappy joke.Overall: do something else other than wasting time with this, like watching the movie series' above or listen to their recordings.
... View More"Still Smokin" isn't as good as Cheech and Chong's earlier movies due to the over-emphasis on vignettes, but it still elicits some laughs. This one has the pot-loving twosome going to Amsterdam for a film festival, where the audience is expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton! From there, the buddies have a series of absurd adventures. The lengthy skits that they imagine drag on a little too long, but the actual shots of the sauna (plus Cheech's own "ET") make up for that.I've heard that Amsterdam, and probably the entire Netherlands, is a really fine place. This movie really makes it look that way. It's not their best movie, but easily better than their follow-up "Corsican Brothers".
... View MoreLet's be honest, Cheech & Chong weren't exactly artists, but some of their earlier movies were a lot of fun. This was their 4th or 5th movie, and it's basically a tired rehash of the same stoner jokes they were knocking out in Up In Smoke. Having said that, it is still fun to a certain audience; the same audience who like Beavis & Butthead or Jay & Silent Bob really.It's not just the infantile humour, it's that age old story of 'loser makes good' that we all find so satisfying over and over again. While C&C don't really achieve anything in any of their movies, they do have fun not achieving it.In this movie they end up in Amsterdam, where they are mistaken for Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton (obviously). You can pretty much imagine the rest of the movie as is. It's stupid, it's childish, it's juvenile - and that's exactly the point.
... View MoreCheech and Chong are invited to an international film festival in Amsterdam. When they arrive, Cheech is momentarily mistaken for Burt Reynolds. In true Cheech and Chong fashion, this guy they met at a party in LA (Patrick) got them tickets to this festival. This Patrick guy took the event promoters money and car, as well. The promoter is having trouble funding the event and is expecting Burt and Dolly to show up. Cheech and Chong inevitable fill Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly's roles in the event. While staying in Amsterdam, all their needs are met for (inadvertantly and with comic consequences by the promoter) by just signing for it. When our heroes get bored of living the good life at the hotel (a debauchery combination of ganja, room service and "room service"), they hit the town. At the Bvlgar Café, they stop to eat the entire menu (consisting of multiple types of sensi and schrooms).The movie is pretty straight forward. It is a basic fish out of water story. Cheech and Chong are dropped in a nonsensical situation in a foreign country. The rest of the movie is a collage of day dreams and ideas (series of sketches or vignettes) for the show they want to put on for the promoter in Amsterdam. These include the following : Cheech and Chong are super famous celebrities.The last part is Cheech and Chong doing a live or live-like stand up performance at the "festival".Red Neck stand up and the world's oldest blue singer, Blind Melon Chitlin.Queer Wars.Con Talk.Dope-A-Thon.The Harder They Don't Come movie.Wrestling with Italian champion Bruno Hakoluki and his partner Ichi Scratchi.This movie is probably the most straight forward of all the Cheech and Chong movies. I get the impression that the team wanted to see if they could go back to their stand up/live audience roots. I still think it is a step up from Things are Tough all Over and even the Corsican Brothers. I did wish that C&C did spend more time in Amsterdam than the virtual sketch comedy. For the most part the movie is amusing and a nice distraction. I find it hard to recommend this movie for non-fans of Cheech and Chong. Based on this fact alone, I would probably rate this movie as their least successful. I would only recommend this movie for the die-hard C&C fans.
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