Cheech & Chong's Next Movie

"Just what we all need...a really good hit!"

1980 1h 39m EN

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★5.9TMDB · 281

ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

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Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of collecting unemployment, they find themselves thrown back on the streets, searching for a way to earn new income. But when Cheech's cousin, "Red" Mendoza, arrives, things get even crazier.

“Just what we all need...a really good hit!”

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Cast

Cheech Marin
Cheech / Dwayne "Red" Mendoza
Tommy Chong
Chong
Evelyn Guerrero
Donna
Betty Kennedy
Candy
Sy Kramer
Mr. Neatnik
Rikki Marin
Gloria
Peter Bromilow
Gay Motorcyclist
Paul 'Mousie' Garner
Executive

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Tommy Chong
Writers: Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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46 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Cheech & Chong Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Tommy Chong, shot by King Baggot. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Mark Davis. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Scott Conrad shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong and Evelyn Guerrero carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Just what we all need...a really good hit!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0080520 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Tommy Chong directs. King Baggot behind the camera. Mark Davis scores. Scott Conrad cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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146 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Cheech & Chong Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Tommy Chong, shot by King Baggot. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Mark Davis. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Scott Conrad shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong and Evelyn Guerrero carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Just what we all need...a really good hit!".
8IMDB entry: tt0080520 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: King Baggot
Original score: Mark Davis
Editing: Scott Conrad
Production design: Fred Harpman
Makeup / hair: Jerry O'Dell
Sound: Bill McCaughey
Stunt coordinator: Eddie Hice
Runtime: 99 min · 1h 39m
Status: Released
Box office: $41,675,194
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)

Part of

Cheech & Chong Collection

Cheech & Chong are a comedy duo consisting of Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong, who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their stand-up routines, which were based upon the hippie and free love era, and especially drug culture movements, most notably their love for cannabis.

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Filipe Manuel Neto2023-09-12
★ 1/10
If Up in Smoke was very bad, this film managed to be even worse. I didn't like “Up in Smoke” and there was little chance of me liking anything in the film that followed. In fact, the first one seems to be even better than this one, which from me is saying a lot, considering that I thought the first film was very bad. In this production, which I hated, we still had a relatively capable story that helped to understand things, and that served as a framework for a ton of jokes and the constant glorification of drug use, especially marijuana. In this film there is no story to tell: we have the jokes, which are even more idiotic, the kind that don't make us laugh but think “how was this possible”, and we continue, invariably, to have drugs, in quantities that would make the Colombian cartels richer than most countries in the world. I don't know what Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong saw to make cycles of films in which the use of recreational drugs is glorified as if they were gifts from the Olympic gods. If only they were able to make you laugh... but not even that. It's a film that should suffer the same fate as the drugs themselves: being burned.

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