Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

VideoEmbolism Weed used to be great and mellow. Nowadays after they started lacing it with strychnine and PCP to turn everybody who smokes it into a complete idiotic psycho I started to feel a little uncomfortable smoking it. back then they made movies about it where no matter how f**ked up you got everything turned out alright. Now getting stoned is as dangerous as buying stocks on wall street. You never know what your going to get but if your Forrest Gump level retardation don't worry, you'll probably like it and they'll have you dressed up in green, spouting the national anthem, and killing what passes for commies nowadays (I think they're called terrorists)in oil-saturated deserts in no time while bankers back home will be sleeping with your wife, stealing your paychecks, and pissing people off enough to fly planes into skyscrapers while homeless people starve and die on the streets because that's the American way.Oh yea, this movie is about two stoners who go around getting f**ked up and laid with no money, no clue, and no reason. Somehow it's more entertaining, insightful, and intelligent than all the self-important serious movies in the world. A masterpiece!

zardoz-13 The first Cheech & Chong stoner comedy of errors "Up in Smoke" consists of gags lifted from their comedy albums about marijuana usage tacked onto a rolling paper thin plot about smuggling a fortune in pot into the U.S. by two dopers desperate for some weed to puff. The message is that if our heroes get high enough that all their troubles will disappear in a purple haze of smoke. Freshman director Lou Adler learned on the job with this occasionally funny comedy that never advocates the legalization of pot. You won't find anything remotely subversive and "Up in Smoke" doesn't take any chances. Adler and scenarists Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin may have gotten high when they contrived this harmless nonsense, but they have no lofty aims. They ridicule their own clueless characters as well as a cadre of hopelessly inept but zealous narcotics police officers who pursue them. "Up in Smoke" amounts to a stoned version of the Keystone Kops, except that the cops are narcs. Of course, Pedro De Bacas (Cheech Marin) and Anthony Stoner (Tommy Chong) are a pair of misguided stoners who encounter each other after Anthony's intolerant father Arnold (Strother Martin of "The Wild Bunch") threatens to pack him off to military school if he doesn't get a job. Anthony's Volkswagon Beetle conks out on him on the highway and he winds up spending the night in a ditch before Pedro mistakes him for a woman and tries to pick him up.Several mildly amusing scenes follow without apparent much apparent motivation. Everything centers on the efforts of our duo to find some good marijuana. One of the funniest scenes in the first 30 minutes shows them smoking a hilariously huge joint that consists of Maui-wowie strained from the turds of Anthony's Labrador. According to Anthony, he caught man's best friend chowing down on his stash and then followed him around with a baggie. Smoke pours out of their car as Pedros cruises the freeway. Inevitably, the police pull them over and pack them off to court with Anthony the worst for wear. During their arraignment in court, Anthony partakes of water from the judge's carafe. He spews the contents and announces to everybody that the judge has been drinking vodka. Our heroes are released after this alarming incident.Later, they visit one of their friends, Veteran-veteran Strawberry (Tom Skerritt of "M.A.S.H.") who has a huge discolored birthmark looking scar on his face. Before Strawberry can goad Anthony into confessing that he is staring at his skin problem, Pedro gets him to embark on a search for some reefer. They leave Anthony at Strawberry's house and Anthony monkeys around with some Comet so that it appears to be cocaine. Party girls snort it up and raise hell. Strawberry has a Vietnam flashback and dons his combat gear, while Pedro warns Anthony of an impending bust by Sergeant Stedenko. No sooner do our heroes escape from the cops a second time than they are caught in a raid organized by INS agents and bussed back across the border. The catch is that the rest of the Mexicans deliberately informed on themselves so they could get a free ride to the border prior to a wedding.Pedro and Anthony go to an upholstery shop run by an uncle to acquire the means of getting back across the border. Predictably, they enter the wrong shop and find themselves in a massive pot smuggling enterprise. They are given a van to drive back to L.A., but what our protagonists don't realize is that they are driving a van constructed of fiberweed. Meaning, the dope smugglers have converted the THC resin found in marijuana in a fiberglass-like substance. Just when it looks like our heroes will be busted at the border, Anthony thumps a roach into a station wagon full of Catholic sisters. The authorities allows our heroes to pass through, but they bust the sisters.Once they are back in L.A., Pedro and Anthony decide to compete in a battle of rock bands. They dress themselves in outlandish costumes and manage to sing a ridiculous song that turns the entire audience into a raving room of fans. The general idea here to keep our heroes off balance as they look for pot and Alder and company shun any political positions. No, this is not an imaginative comedy, but it marked not only their debut but the biggest depiction of a counter-culture duo that spawned a number of lesser films.

RainDogJr I added to my collection the Double Feature DVD with Up in Smoke and Still Smokin like two months ago but just last night I finally saw the first one so also last night was my very first "encounter" with Cheech and Chong and for sure won't be the last. So here Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are Pedro and Anthony (his father call him Anthony yet in the credits Tommy Chong is just "man") respectively and basically they will meet just by pure causality. We have the sort of introduction and we see a moment with each one, we see the first funny moment with Pedro pissing and on the other hand we have the classic situation of a guy who at the age of what 30 or something still lives with his parents, certainly the father is just tired of having his lazy son doing about nothing during the entire day. Both Pedro and Anthony are out with cars yet only Pedro will be able to continue driving, to continue looking for a lost babe or maybe babes but he will have only kind of a really big disappointment but after all there he meets who will be his best friend. Certainly these two have a lot in common but mainly two things will keep them together: drugs and rock and roll. Is just amazing and hilarious the first joint they smoke together, Pedro was like "I been smoking since always, I can smoke anything" but the Led Zeppelin is something else, heavy s***, dog s***! And that s*** will give them some troubles and certainly we will laugh and laugh. Up in Smoke is one of those movies that are just so damn enjoyable since the very first second till the very last, essentially Pedro and Anthony are just looking out for some s*** but of course things will happen. The police play here a big role, they will be close to Pedro, Anthony and company and they deliver also a lot of fun. We have the police chief and three of his "sons" (is also a great "show" with this guys, of course the one who will suffer most is the chief, he even loses his dog that was the best cop he ever saw!), they are after those who are transporting a really big quantity of drug from Mexico to the US, they will be after "two hippies with a van". And certainly we know who those hippies are, we know that the van they are driving would be a damn treasure for them but they don't know, actually they don't know a damn thing. Is really funny what Pedro's cousin (not sure is his cousin but sure is a relative) do to get a free ride to Tijuana, very funny and Pedro and Anthony will be in Mexico also and in THE van they will return to the US. At one point we know what will happen with the van if the police finds it, actually is not that different to what will happen with the van if Pedro and Anthony realize about the truth. By this time our dudes have company, finally the company of women and now they have another thing in mind: the battle of the bands at the Roxy. And will be for a moment like a little Monterey or Woodstock, every single soul in the place was connected! Those like me who saw first the great Coen brothers film The Big Lebowski (that is my second favourite Coen bros film) certainly will remember it. Terrific fun with these two DUDES!

kurciasbezdalas Basically all Up in Smoke movies are about watching other people getting high, actually all the drug comedies are about that. It sounds kinda boring, but not when those people are Cheech & Chong. The scene where they were smoking in a car in the beginning is still funny to me, though I watched it many times. This movie is making fun more from the cops and other people who fight drugs, than from the drug addicts who just want to get high. This film shows how ridiculous those fighters against drugs look like, though this is a comedy, in my opinion, there is a lot of truth in this film. Maybe other Up in Smoke movies aren't that good as this one, but as I remember there is always at least few hilarious moments.