Still Smokin Movie
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You can always smell the excitement in the air.
They'll have you ROLLING in your seats!
Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party/festival in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money, and the rest of the hosts have a VERY limited budget. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our heroes gets to be Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly. We follow them around Amsterdam, at their hotel, (still) smokin' joints and doing shows.
| Cheech Marin | Cheech |
| Tommy Chong | Chong |
| Hans Man in 't Veld | Promoter |
| Carol van Herwijnen | Hotel Manager |
| Shireen Strooker | Assistant Manager |
| Susan Hahn | Hotel Maid |
| Kees Prins | Bellboy |
| Mariette Bout | Barge Waitress |
| Fabiola | Barge Lady |
| Carla van Amstel | Queen Beatrix |
| James M. McEwen | |
| Linnea Quigley | Blonde in Spa |
| Tommy Chong |
9.99 out of 10 (2628 votes)
Visitor Reviews
I am your biggest fan. I have see all your movies, except the last one.
posted on 27 Mar 2009Cheech and Chong are invited to an international film festival in Amsterdam. When they arrive, Cheech is momentarily mistaken for Burt Reynolds. In true Cheech and Chong fashion, this guy they met at a party in LA (Patrick) got them tickets to this festival. This Patrick guy took the event promoters money and car, as well. The promoter is having trouble funding the event and is expecting Burt and Dolly to show up. Cheech and Chong inevitable fill Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly's roles in the event. While staying in Amsterdam, all their needs are met for (inadvertantly and with comic consequences by the promoter) by just signing for it. When our heroes get bored of living the good life at the hotel (a debauchery combination of ganja, room service and "room service"), they hit the town. At the Bvlgar Café, they stop to eat the entire menu (consisting of multiple types of sensi and schrooms).The movie is pretty straight forward. It is a basic fish out of water story. Cheech and Chong are dropped in a nonsensical situation in a foreign country. The rest of the movie is a collage of day dreams and ideas (series of sketches or vignettes) for the show they want to put on for the promoter in Amsterdam. These include the following : Cheech and Chong are super famous celebrities.The last part is Cheech and Chong doing a live or live-like stand up performance at the "festival".Red Neck stand up and the world's oldest blue singer, Blind Melon Chitlin.Queer Wars.Con Talk.Dope-A-Thon.The Harder They Don't Come movie.Wrestling with Italian champion Bruno Hakoluki and his partner Ichi Scratchi.This movie is probably the most straight forward of all the Cheech and Chong movies. I get the impression that the team wanted to see if they could go back to their stand up/live audience roots. I still think it is a step up from Things are Tough all Over and even the Corsican Brothers. I did wish that C&C did spend more time in Amsterdam than the virtual sketch comedy. For the most part the movie is amusing and a nice distraction. I find it hard to recommend this movie for non-fans of Cheech and Chong. Based on this fact alone, I would probably rate this movie as their least successful. I would only recommend this movie for the die-hard C&C fans.
What is wrong with critics?
posted on 12 Mar 2009First off, unlike the person who's comment is the main comment for this film. in this film the stoner humor is all there and then some. they have all kinds of funny jokes and skits. and the solution to the bankrupt film festival was not a drug sale. but a show of there famous skits. and honestly i fell over laughing during this entire movie. I've never laughed harder at anything in my life as to some of the scenes in this movie. like for example, queer wars, or the dogs Herbie and Ralf. lol, forget a serious critics asinine comments, this film is simply put a simple comedy that everyone who likes cheech and chong should see. its not unique, its not high tech, its not complicated. its simple and funny. and thats what a comedy is all about. after all, look at kiss, the bands name says it all. because it stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. so if you want it simple, and funny to boot. this is a film for you.
More Cheech And Chong Craziness
posted on 03 Dec 2008This sequel to "Cheech And Chong's Up In Smoke" finds the drug addled duo (Richard "Cheech" Marin, Thomas Chong) wandering into a bankrupt film festival in Amsterdam. In an effort to raise funds, the duo plan a drug sale. No better or worse than any of the duo's other films together.
It's a very awful movie!
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A slightly above average comedy film
posted on 30 Jul 2007Two stoners named Cheech and Chong are invited to a Dutch film festival by mistake. Hmm... can you guess what stoners do in the Netherlands? Well, apart from being the most idiotic and stupid of the Cheech and Chong movies, this film does stand up pretty well compared to some of todays dope-movies. What it lacks in plot it makes up for with the hilarious sketches at the end(best part of the movie, no matter what anyone says). Some of the sketches are a little sick, so this film isn't for the easily offended. This film is pretty funny, although it has no plot which drags it down a bit. 7 out of 10.
An ill-conceived misfire...
posted on 02 Nov 2006Nobody else seems to know how to make a hilarious, easy-going film like Up In Smoke, and if this effort is any indication, it would appear that the duo don't really know it either. In fact, if I had to assess why Up In Smoke was such a classic in spite of its uneven pace, Still Smokin' would lead me to believe that it was purely a miraculous accident. But even without comparison to Up In Smoke, Still Smokin' is by any standard a complete mess.The concept around which the film is based seems interesting enough. The stoner duo, playing themselves for a change, are invited to a film festival in Holland. The idea being that Holland, with its somewhat less Nancy-Boy approach to drug consumption, regards the pair as celebrities. Or at least, that is the idea behind one of the sketches. And this is where the problem begins. The plot, such as it is, loosely ties together a series of Comedy Company-style sketches that just don't work. Some of them, such as the interview with an adoring Dutch film critic society, smack of self-indulgence.The one part of this film that comes close to working is the blind blues harmonica player. Chong literally comes onto the stage wearing some kind of brown paint over his face, and, tapping out a beat with his foot, blows into his empty hands. It is a lot funnier to watch than it looks on paper (or a monitor), and I still cannot watch a lot of Charles Bronson's scenes in C'era una volta il West without cracking up because of it. If the rest of the film had been like this, it would have been a major success.Unfortunately, the rest of the film is based around such idiocies as a wrestling match with invisible opponents that goes on way too long, or a stage performance in which the stoner duo impersonate dogs. I can't remember if they really do such things as sniff each others' butts, but given how low and undignified this sounds in text form, it wouldn't surprise me in the least. What would surprise me would be the Paramount executives being fully sober and lucid when they greenlighted this mess. Seriously, did they even have a finished script when principal photography began?In all, I gave Still Smokin' a one out of ten. It is not bad enough to be good, but it is bad enough to be just plain bad. Aside from the one funny skit I outlined above, the entire film was, and still is, a big waste of cash. I am not surprised in the slightest that the Just Say No movement picked up momentum shortly after films like this. They suggest quite strongly that marijuana might not be so harmless after all.
very disappointing
posted on 25 Aug 2006I had seen one or two Cheech and Chong movies when I was younger and I didn't really get a good understanding about them. Now years later I decided to watch a bunch of them (from Up in Smoke to Still Smokin). Now, Up in Smoke was very good for their humour, this was not.I can watch most movies regardless of how bad they are but this was different. When you had a movie that worked so well years prior it is sad to see what could of been. Towards the middle of this movie you realize its going nowhere quick. The fun of Cheech and Chong was the adventure to get more, be it whatever drug. In Amsterdam there is no 'hunt', they just get it. Now I must admit that they are playing themselves and not the usual stoners, but can we all agree that we enjoyed those stoners a lot more. The Burt and Dolly thing get old quick and I found out that there is no defined conflict. it is more just little escapades , if even.I give this movie a 2 because it is a huge disappointment.
The worst film I have recently seen. I didn't expect much but sure more after seeing the great Up in Smoke
posted on 22 Mar 2006I was sort of disappointed when I realized about the fact that Still Smokin is not the second film of Cheech and Chong but the fifth one. When I bought the DVD with both Up in Smoke and Still Smokin I didn't knew much about Cheech and Chong, still I don't know much about them yet I loved Up in Smoke. Certainly by knowing that this was their fifth film my expectations decreased in a considerable way but I wasn't ready to see very soon unfunny stuff from Cheech and Chong, I missed so much Pedro and Man Stoner!Actually the first surprise comes when the film begins: the music. Is a complete change but anyway here they play themselves and they travel to Amsterdam. I liked this little section of the film or at least it is an OK introduction with this funny guy from Holland who at first thinks that Cheech is Burt Reynolds and that Chong is Dolly Parton. Is funny when Cheech says to that guy something like "don't worry I can bring here E.T., is a personal friend of mine" but certainly is not funny at all when Cheech is disguised as E.T. or every time they imagine a sketch. Each imaginary sketch is as boring as unfunny as ridiculous, very few laughs with the real show and I was extremely glad when Cheech and Chong received the applause of the audience at the very end of the film.
Cheech and Chong's fifth film: Still Smokin.
posted on 01 Dec 2005Still Smokin (1983) was the fifth film that starred Cheech and Chong. Following their road trip film THINGS ARE TOUGH ALL OVER. This is more like a concert promo film. Many of the skits and sketches are taking from their comedy albums. The duo is in The Netherlands. They were invited to host a film festival, but the company hosting it is running out of money. The duo decides to put on a benefit show for the festival. Cheech and Chong become a huge success in Holland. Not only do they save the festival but they get to enjoy the ambiance and the delightful smoke of Amsterdam.A step down from their last film. Times had changed. America was more fascinated with cocaine than pot. They had lost a lot of their fan base. Some thing had to change. So with their next film the duo went into a whole new direction. A period piece that aimed at a different market and audience. Slightly recommended.
Not what I expected...
posted on 22 Jul 2005After seeing Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke, I thought that Still Smokin' would be just as hilarious. It turns out I was way wrong and I was very disappointed at the quality of this film. Among the awful cast, the transitions to and from dream sequences were so confusing that I wasn't sure which part was the actual film and which part was the dream sequence. Occasionally the film would make me start to laugh, but then Cheech would become some annoying character that I just wanted to slap. Cheech and Chong really let me down with this one- but I'm not too upset because there will always be Up In Smoke.
C & C are at it again.
posted on 08 Apr 2005This time we find the duo in Ampsterdam (if that's how you spell it). This time we see the best characters and segments that Cheech & Chong had to offer us.I'd say this is one of their better movies. The only ones I liked better were UP IN SMOKE and CHEECH & CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE. But this one was still good.*** out of *****.Rated R for crude humor, language, nudity and some drug content.
The Stage
posted on 20 Jan 2005I 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.
Not that funny but not terrible
posted on 06 Dec 2003Being a fan of That 70's Show and liking it's Leo character who is played by Tommy Chong, I thought I should check out the movies I had heard about that he made with Cheech Martin. After viewing my first Cheech & Chong movie I am left with mixed thoughts.Before I watched it, I looked at it's page on IMDb. Seeing it was full of low star ratings and negative reviews, I knew I had picked the wrong Cheech & Chong film. Still, I went into it optimistically but it turned out so-so.I don't think there were any jokes that made me laugh out loud, but there were some that made me smile or very lightly laugh. Even though all the gags weren't good, the way they did it is still an original approach to comedy. If there were better jokes it could of been really good.Tommy Chong is a very good actor in this movie. Even when it's not funny, Chong still does well acting wise. Plus sometimes he has this innocent look on his face which makes you feel sorry for him if you don't laugh. Cheech does OK. He's not as good at acting as Chong is, but still OK.Overall this is an OK movie. You'll probably get a few laughs out of it, but you're not missing anything if you don't watch it.
Hey come on! It's funny!
posted on 06 Jun 2003This is an incredibly funny film! More like a series of wacky sketches rather than a movie with a plot, but great fun nonetheless. We were all falling out of our chairs laughing. Cheech and Chong are awfully talented! The dog routine, the invisible man, the hairy palm, the E.T. routine.. I saw the movie day before yesterday and I still cant hold back my laughter when I remember those scenes! These guys should have made a TV series, they are awesome!
Worse than you can imagine
posted on 10 Nov 2001I am a Cheech and Chong Fan. Saw "Up in Smoke" a few months ago and I still think it is great. .....Still Smokin is not great. Not good. Not fair.....it is crap. A few funny moments, but basically no story. Most of the humour is not funny, even if you are stoned. Try "Up in Smoke" or the Next Movie, but not this one.The basic plot/story is Cheech and Chong are mistaken for Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton at a film festival in Amterdam by people carrying signs with Burt and Dollys photos on them. ...and then it get worst.You can look at my voting history and I have rated over 1500 movies...there are very few ones...98% of my votes are 6 and up...I like movies of all kinds..except crap. THis is crap...Don't waste your time.
Awful
posted on 14 Oct 2001This 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.
Not C&C's best, but worth a few laughs
posted on 28 Feb 2001Let'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.
Out of breath.
posted on 26 Jan 2001Cheech and Chong head to Amsterdam after being invited to attend a film festival, but there happens to be a strange case of mistaken identity. They were expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, but Cheech and Chong go ahead with the trip despite that of the Manager's grave concerns over the debacle. So, the duo decides they would perform a show for the festival. Where they spend their time lazing about in the hotel, checking out hot spots and dreaming up skits that they can perform.Oh man, how awkward and self-indulgent can this get. I loved the first three films; "Up in Smoke", "Next Movie" and "Nice Dreams". But for this outing, everything about is simply in shambles. And to think I was going to purchase it. Phew, that was a close shave! How to describe it… embarrassing and tired. As I sat there, I found it to get less funny with its forced humour that got too silly and became stale far too quickly. From watching their other films, I knew there wouldn't be much of a story with individual skits making up the plot… ha, plot? At least the others had some sort of storyline. Yeah, there's nothing that totally resembles a tale here… it's plot less. What we got here, is simply a bland holiday gig for the clownish, two stoners; Cheech and Chong to get up to trouble in Amsterdam and actually play themselves in some dreamed-up episodes that they could perform in their stand-up live show at the end of the film. Too bad I found it mostly boring and the support performances just make you cringe. Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin are so-so, it's just the material they have come up with, equals such lacking and disappointing results with too few successful stints of humour. Some skits go on for too long and outstay their welcome. Even the humour has even less do with drugs here, and goes for infantile cracks and beyond crude remarks and actions. Sure, I wouldn't mind it, but I didn't find all of it remotely amusing. They just don't pull it off in this nothing more and nothing less item.It couldn't get anymore poor than this. A total drag that's straining for laughs.
Maybe even funnier than the original movie
posted on 30 Dec 2000I think many people will disagree with me, but this film has much more funny moments than the first part. OK, so maybe the first movie had a better plot and this film is kinda pointless, but that's what's good about it, there were shown many different comical performances by Cheech & Chong, some of the were really funny. Some people say that this movie is bad, but how can the film about Cheech & Chong in Amsterdam be bad? This time there was not only drug humor (though mostly drug humor) but there was a lot of sex and other type of jokes. The drug dealing scene was very funny. Maybe as movie it isn't that good as the original, but it's definitely funnier than original.
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You must be jokin'
posted on 30 Aug 2009Cheech and Chong plunge to new depths in this lackluster comedy, a film so bad, it makes their "Nice Dreams" film seem like a classic. Particularly awful is the concert footage at the end, which is about as funny as a savage beating. Watch at your own risk.