[quote=sdduuuude][quote=scaredyclassic]… pretty lame cheech and Chong.[/quote]
Blasphemy ! I read no further than this :|[/quote]
Cheech does move in an amusing way. A hyped up chicken, maybe. That’s fun to watch. He dances funny. My wife hates drugs and drug humor, but she liked cheech, and actually liked the movie. He has a real Chicano self mocking pride to himself.
The details are nice, especially cheechs car, which is like a whole separate character in the film.
Chong, though, not sure what his talent is, other than a kind of hey I know a stoner kinda like him guy.
The lesser star, Kind of like Garfunkel to cheechs paul Simon.
If Simon and Garfunkel were 2 homeless guys with no sense of pitch playing ukeleles in a park 4 spare change.
The sex stuff is a little painful. . At one point, a woman shows cheech her breasts, and his face lights up with an adolescent delight and surprise that I dont think would be believable in 2020. Weve been too saturated with porn to go back to cheechs expression, to even imagine such surprise and wonder.
When cheech tries to pick up some clearly underaged teeenyboppers from a bus stop, its downright frightening, not funny, not even a little funny. Mr hulots holiday is a laugh riot compared to that moment. Thankfully, they decline his offer.
Probably my favorite character in the movie is the really odd looking slow talking girl who likes qualludes and chong and Carries around a nicely made picnic basket type drug stash.
She is weird, for sure, but not as frightening as the girl who unwittingly snorts 3 lines of ajax thinking its coke and has a kind of 3 stooges reaction to it at the PTSD vietnam vets house cheech and chong are trying to buy weed from.
Maybe that’s the most dated thing in the film, making fun of a veteran with PTSD. Not done in anything remotely resembling a humorous take on it.
Which is kind of compelling, in it’s own way.
If that scene were released today cheech and chong would probably get death threats from patriots and told to stand in front of the troops if they can’t get behind them in the movies
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But the funniest moment for sure…
“One scene that stands out today involves a Mexican family calling immigration, or “La Migra,” on themselves, self-deporting so that they can all find a ride and a meal down to Mexico for a wedding.”
Ahh, the 70s.
Apparently the scenes of underrepresented east l. A. Were groundbreaking for the time.
.we forget how disconnected films were from reality as lived by many. .
Pineapple Express has better moments. But still ultimately, about as dumb.
