Still Smokin
Still Smokin
R | 06 May 1983 (USA)
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Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our heroes get to be Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly.

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Mark Honhorst

Okay, so we start off with Cheech and Chong being mistaken for Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. They are escorted to Amsterdam too attend a film festival. Eventually, the people realize that Cheech and Chong are not Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. The man who operates the festival is ruined and threatens to kill himself, so Cheech and Chong plan to host a "Dope-a-Thon" to set things straight. A simple enough plot, right? Too simple. So simple, the filmmakers had to add seemingly pointless skits and 20 minutes of Cheech and Chong concert footage to pad it out. Seriously, if you took out the random skits and concert footage, you would have a film that is about 15 minutes long. The film starts out okay, but with more and more skits as we go, it feels more like a bad episode of Mad TV, rather than an actual movie,and it all just seems weird. Now, the skits and concert footage is funny, but still awful. One can obviously tell this movie was thrown together simply to make some extra money for Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. The plot is so weak, they couldn't even figure out a way to film a proper ending, hence the 20 minutes of concert footage I mentioned before. See Up in Smoke instead.

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theskylabadventure

Let's be honest, Cheech & Chong weren't exactly artists, but some of their earlier movies were a lot of fun. This was their 4th or 5th movie, and it's basically a tired rehash of the same stoner jokes they were knocking out in Up In Smoke. Having said that, it is still fun to a certain audience; the same audience who like Beavis & Butthead or Jay & Silent Bob really.It's not just the infantile humour, it's that age old story of 'loser makes good' that we all find so satisfying over and over again. While C&C don't really achieve anything in any of their movies, they do have fun not achieving it.In this movie they end up in Amsterdam, where they are mistaken for Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton (obviously). You can pretty much imagine the rest of the movie as is. It's stupid, it's childish, it's juvenile - and that's exactly the point.

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watje62

This movie is really not worth seeing, and not even funny. A total waste of time and money. When you see it don't buy it!The only thing I liked was the fact that I lived in Amsterdam around 1983, and I got the feeling of my younger years back. But that still made it not worth seeing.The problem with this summary is that I really do not know what to tell more. It is really not even funny for a 3 year old.There is not much of a storyline, and the humor is awful and the movie totally boring.I have to enter 10 lines and I really don't know what to say anymore.

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tedg

I saw this on a double bill with "Downfall." Similar films in a way.The idea here is that Cheech and Chong play themselves, skit comedians. That they are in Holland is incidental. The setup is there only so that they can do a stage show at the end.In between we have "imagined" skits. Many of them. And a few of the episodes in the story proper reference the stage. For instance Cheech wants to screw the hotel maid and is (for other reasons) disguised at ET. He hides in the closet amid stuffed animals. It was the only laugh in this whole thing.Yes, that's right, they have hundreds of jokes and none of them funny.So you need to be content (if you've been tricked into watching this) with the notions of performance about performance. Every skit has this theme. So in this movie, we'll have a stage show, or a TeeVee show or a movie, each one of which makes fun of another.The same notion was used in the next generation of stoner movie, "Wayne's World." Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

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