Up in Smoke (1978)

• Year: 1978
• Released: 15 Sep 1978
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078446/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/up_in_smoke
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/up-in-smoke
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Runtime: 86 min
• Writer: Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin
• Director: Lou Adler, Tommy Chong
• Cast: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin
• Keywords: drugs, cult film, marijuana, drug trafficking, buddy,

	6.9/10
	57/100

Up in Smoke Storyline

Cheech and Chong meet up by chance on the highway somewhere in California. They go in search of some dope and are accidentally deported to Mexico where in their desperation to get home they agree to drive a van back to the States so they can get back in time for a gig they are due to play. Unaware of the properties from which the van is constructed they make their way back having aquired a couple of female hitch-hikers whilst all the time avoiding the cops whom they are not even aware are following them.

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Abbott & Costello do Acid…

Go with it, take it all in, smile, exhale – then repeat. There are no perspectives, there’s only fun and laughter, no winners or losers, no right or wrongs – just ups and downs, highs and lows. When its all over forget it, if you hadn’t already: it never really happened – move on!

Good stoner jokes

Anthony Stoner (Tommy Chong) is an unemployed slacker who is his father’s disappointment and threatened with military school. He drives off with his VW Beetle with the Rolls grill but his car breaks down. He is stranded until fellow weed smoker Pedro de Pacas (Cheech Marin) picks him up. Pedro is tripping on acid with his car parked on a traffic median. The cops arrest them. The guys get released when the judge is found to be drinking vodka. They visit Strawberry (Tom Skerritt) and barely escape the cops (Stacy Keach). Immigration comes to take Pedro’s cousin and his wedding party to Mexico after he called them himself. His cousin just wanted a free ride to his wedding. The boys get deported as well. They stumble onto a secret weed factory and wrongly picks up a van constructed with weed.

This is filled with stoner jokes and some of them are hilarious. The guys are good together. I wish the movie is just the two guys hanging out together. The best scene is when the guys are out of their mind alone in their car. They don’t actually need an outlandish plot. They really only need each other. The meandering plot is actually quite tiring. It’s a downer to keep track of the story. I would think that their target audience shouldn’t be asked to keep track of such a rambling mess. The movie devolves into a mess instead of simply having fun with the two guys.

Far out man

Up in Smoke is a 1970s stoner comedy and Cheech & Chong’s best known film. It helps if you are stoned when you watch the movie.

Tommy Chong appropriately plays a character called Anthony Stoner. A slacker whose dad wants to send to military school if he does not get a job. Stoner drives off and meets Pedro de Pacas (Cheech Marin) another dope smoker.

Somehow they try to evade the arrests, get deported to Mexico and return back to the USA in a van entirely made out of marijuana as the cops try to to get hold of them.

The duo end up in a concert battle of the bands as their van starts to smoke its fumes in the venue.

There are some laughs, such as the stoned out sniffer dog on its back. It is too loosely structured and meandering to be absolutely spliffing.