Up in Smoke (1978)

Star Rating: 3
Length of Film: 86 minutes
Director: Lou Adler, Tommy Chong
Cast: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin, Stacy Keach, Edie Adams, Harold Fong, richard Novo, Jane Moder, Pam Bille, Arthur Roberts, Marian Beeler, Donald Hotton, John Ian Jacobs, Christopher joy, Ray Vitte, Michael Caldwell 








The movie starts out with Pedro (Cheech Marin) passed out on the couch, having children watching cartoons, climbing all over him. He walks into the bathroom, looks over his shoulder and realizes that the toilet is on the other side of the room, he looks down and he's peeing in a laundry hamper.

Man (Tommy Chong) gets in a fight with his parents, and storms out of the house. The garage door opens, revealing the grill of a Rolls Royce. As an audience, we're supposed to believe that Man's rich parents let their screw up child drive a Rolls Royce, but as he drives out, we see that it's just a part of a Rolls Royce and his car is actually a beat up yellow Volkswagon Beetle.

His car breaks down, and he decides to tie his shirt up, and stuff it, so it looks like he has boobs and showing off his stomach. He gets Pedro's attention through the rear view mirror, and he turns a 180 to pick "her" up. Man gets in the car, and he was completely surprised when "she" ended up being a "he". Pedro pulls a joint out of his pocket, Man looks at it confusingly, and it actually was a toothpick. He digs in his other pocket, to find the joint. Man looks at him, with disgust and pulls out HIS joint.

They drive around with the whole inside of the car filled with smoke. Stoned out of their ass, they sit in the car and Pedro starts freaking out, Man gives him pills to calm him down and they accidently end up being Acid. A police pulled over, Man panicked and started popping every pill he had. Pedro, stoned out of his mind is very sarcastic with the police officer, and gets thrown in jail. The court scene is hilarious and Man asks for a glass of water, darts for the judge's glass, gets pulled away from the officers, then Pedro grabs the glass for him. Man takes a sip, and spits it out, stating that it's vodka. The judge looks embarassed.


The movie continues with the 2 main characters trying to get high. Police Officers try to make a drug bust, but are too stupid to catch any of them. They end up in Mexico, and steal a van, which is made completely of pot, which of course, they don't know that it is.

The movie, of course, gets more crazy and they end up competing in A Battle of the Bands, which their outfits are the best part. I couldn't find pictures of them, in their costumes, so since I couldn't find them, you'll just have to watch the movie to see it. This movie is Dumb and Dumber of the 1970's. It's a good laugh and worth watching.

Happy viewing!