Up in Smoke [VHS]

Up in Smoke [VHS]
by Tommy Chong, Lou Adler

Up in Smoke [VHS]

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Actor: Edie Adams, Marian Beeler, Michael Caldwell (III), Pam Bille, Tommy Chong
Director: Lou Adler, Tommy Chong
Primary Contributor: Tommy Chong
Primary Contributor: Cheech Marin
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 87 minutes
Release Date: 1997-07-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Paramount
Studio: Paramount

VHS Movie Reviews of Up in Smoke [VHS]

Movie Review: CHEECH AND CHONG'S UP IN SMOKE
Summary: 5 Stars

ALL WAS WELL WITH MY ORDER. SHIPPING WAS FAST And ITEM WAS IN GOOD CONDITION .

Movie Review: up in smoke
Summary: 5 Stars

a real good classic i like tommy chong to bad he had to go to the big house but hes a great actor / comedian keep on smoken thos cheech and chongs free tommy

Movie Review: Your Money Won't Go Up In Smoke With This Purchase!
Summary: 5 Stars

I can't believe I've watched this movie from time to time for 30 years now and it's STILL timelessly funny. The 1970's stand-up duo who sold thousands of comedy albums hit paydirt with their first movie, Up In Smoke. Followed by five sequels, this first film is considered by most to be their absolute best. And you didn't have or had to be in the "pot-culture lifestyle" to get the jokes either. A true comedy classic. Paramount released it first in 2000 with a couple of extras but now in 2007, a new Special Collector's Edition has toked it's way to stores. But is it worth a repurchase or should you save your stash?

At first glance this 2007 version's cover from the original 2000 issue doesn't look worth it, but trust me it's a vast improvement. First, the new menus are nice with new smokey animations, a strange-at-first CGI-like animated music video for the album version of Earache My Eye complete with the full original monologue, a quick video version of the movie where all you see is each time every actor says "Man" in it (trust me, it's funny), a couple of 70's radio spots, and be it slightly too short, an 11 minute retrospective on the movie with Cheech, Chong, and director Lou Adler. Even the movie's picture itself has been greatly improved, with an amazingly colorful picture free from any blemishes whatsoever. The 5.1 mix, commentary, and deleted scenes are ported over from the 2000 release, so this is one double-dip you can toss the original for.

Highly recommended for your stoner library, even just for the comedy-in-general one.
(RedSabbath Rating:9.0/10)

Movie Review: Cheech and Chong's Comic Time Capsule
Summary: 2 Stars

When "Up in Smoke" premiered in September 1978, straight and stoned patrons laughed hysterically at the cinematic debut of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. Seen today, the film survives as a period piece - terribly uneven and less amusing with the passage of time. Stacy Keach makes an excellent foil for Cheech and Chong's pot-laced antics, but the duo's comedy albums were much funnier.

Movie Review: just the begining!
Summary: 5 Stars

this is just the begining for cheech and chong. i own every dvd, record etc....

as far as dvds, you can get

up in smoke- the high-larious version (more bonus features)
next movie
things are tough all over
nice dreams
still smokin
get out of my room
far out man-chong
rude awakining-cheech
born in east l.a.-cheech
A/K/A TOMMY CHONG

i know they have a few other movies but not my style.

now if we can only get these two back into the studio together!

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Summary of Up in Smoke [VHS]

Cheech & Chong's first cannabis comedy is also their best, a souvenir from the more carefree days before "Just Say No," when people did not feel so defensive about inhaling. In 1978, the prevailing spirit was more like "Just Say Blow." Even New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael liked it (the movie, that is), adding that it was "an exploitation slapstick comedy, rather than a family picture, such as Blazing Saddles or High Anxiety--which means that it's dirtier, wilder, and sillier." The story has to do with bumbling potheads Cheech & Chong searching for primo bud, while being tailed by a team of inept law-enforcement officers, led by Sgt. Stedenko (Stacy Keach). Sample dialogue: When a cop pulls them over to ask if they are any illegal substances in his vehicle, Cheech replies: "Not any more, man." Up in Smoke is an irresistibly silly and charming movie that--despite, or perhaps because of, the national furor over drug use--plays today like a relic from a bygone era, a sweeter, more open, more innocent period in our history. --Jim Emerson

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