IT CAME FROM HOLLYWOOD (1982)

Chock full of great B-movie clips from the golden age of trash cinema this is a bad-movie lovers wet dream. If you don't mind the pseudo SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE style skits in between the awesome scenes this is for you. The funniest guys in this are Cheech and Chong. It's too bad that with all the various copyright owners this thing will probably never get a proper DVD release. Look for it on the old VHS or a bootleg DVD or just watch the whole thing on YouTube. Good times, giant monsters, aliens, gorillas and Ed Wood. What more do you want out of one movie?

STILL SMOKIN (1983)

As the 1980's dragged on like a cancerous growth Cheech & Chong seemed to be less relevant and equally less funny. Thank you Ronald Reagan, Madonna & Charles In Charge for a progressively shittier decade. This does still have its moments( I particularly enjoy the idiocy of the Dope-A-Thon and Queers In Space segments) but it's not up their with their earlier stuff. They followed this one up with their last movie THE CORSICAN BROTHERS, featuring a very toned-down lame-ass version of the duo. It's a movie that I've never felt the need to revisit since seeing it and being bored as a kid. After that it was all over, as far as movies go, and they split up. So enjoy this for what it is.

CHEECH AND CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE (1980)

Cheech & Chong's follow-up to their movie debut UP IN SMOKE. It's not like any of these movies were great works of art but they were funny and I find that this one works just as well as the first for me. Cheech plays his cousin Red for half the movie and him and Chong get into most of the wacky hijinks. Features a take off on CLOSE ENCOUNTERS with some outer spacedust, the Mexican-Americans song, tons of weed smoking of course, Pee Wee Herman, a red Hulk character named Wamba played by that BODY BY JAKE guy, the guy from POLICE ACADEMY who makes the sound effects with his mouth, Edie McClurg as a pot-smoking grandma,and even Elvira without her makeup in a tiny part. Definitely worth checking out ya hippie.

UP IN SMOKE (1978)

The marijuana generations answer to the 3 Stooges? Maybe. This is the best C & C movie for my money. Even if just for the amazing rock fight/battle of the bands scene at the end. Silly, stupid and funny. The only problem that I found was the DVD I watched of this had no boobs in it. Now I may be delusional but I do recall boobs in this thing. Hell, those were the most memorable scenes from the movie when I was a young boy watching it for the 1st time. The bust scene and in the back of the van there were bare tits. Nice ones too!! The Paramount DVD has no boobs to be found anywhere. Why would they release a cut version of the movie? The thing even has deleted scenes on it. How the hell do you include deleted scenes and then take out scenes that belong in the movie? The movie was still funny but tits make everything that much better. Fuck you Paramount!