Up in Smoke

What's lacking in Up in Smoke is a cohesiveness in both humor and characterization.

Director Lou Adler (the record producer) finds a few chuckles, but mostly it's amateur night.

As far as comedic ingredients go, weed is not so much a surefire laugh-getter as it is a free-floating lubricant capable of setting off wicked complications.

As the most fun comes not from watching the movie but from recalling great lines later, it would seem that the audio success of C & C has not translated too well into visuals.

The duo wrote the genial script about the never-ending search for great pot, and a good supporting cast co-stars.

Cheech Marin and Thomas Chong prove to be irresistible anti-establishment figures in this consistently amusing dum-dum comedy.

Classic stoner comedy has drugs, language, sex.

a shaggy slice of slacker comedy, and while no one will mistake it for a particularly well-made movie, it is imminently likeable and repeatedly watchable

The funniest of all the Cheech and Chong movies, Up in Smoke provides a feast of gags for the sympathetically minded.

This Cheech and Chong weed comedy was dismissed by most critics (and parents) but it was embraced by young viewers and launched the subgenre of "stoner" comedies way before Linklater made Slacker.