- Release Date: 1978
- Runtime: 86 min
- Genre: Comedy
- Starring: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin, Edie Adams ... see all
- Director: Tommy Chong, Lou Adler
- Plot: Cheech and Chong meet up by chance on the highway somewhere in California. They go in search of some dope and are accidentally deported to Mexico where in their desperation... Read more
User Reviews
The Show
Feb 06, 2006
tedg - imdb.com
Feb 06, 2006tedg - imdb.com
The counterculture was long dead and ripe for retrospective satire. Into the opportunity stepped two pro comics who after trying other things, built these characters. When comics work up a world for years and then brings it to a movie,... Full review
Cheech and Chong's Screen debut!
Aug 17, 2005
Joseph P. Ulibas - imdb.com
Aug 17, 2005Joseph P. Ulibas - imdb.com
Up in Smoke (1978) was the comic team of Cheech and Chong's big screen debut. After selling a ton of albums during the early and mid-seventies, the duo finally got a chance to star in their own picture. Anthony "Man"... Full review
Cheech and Chong will never get old
Aug 07, 2005
Lee Eisenberg - imdb.com
Aug 07, 2005Lee Eisenberg - imdb.com
Basically an excuse for Cheech and Chong to get into a series of marijuana adventures, "Up in Smoke" is a hoot from beginning to end. Pedro De Pacas (Cheech Marin) and Anthony "Man" Stoner (Tommy Chong) are a pair of... Full review
Groooovy dope comedy
Jul 31, 2005
bollock86 - imdb.com
Jul 31, 2005bollock86 - imdb.com
The first movie of six which we follow the two dope heads "Pedro De Pacas" (Cheech Marin) and Anthony 'Man' Stoner (Tommy Chong) on their adventures, I think this is the funniest of the "Cheech & Chong" series.In this movie... Full review
What a great movie!!
Aug 06, 2003
strangerzero - imdb.com
Aug 06, 2003strangerzero - imdb.com
Up in Smoke (1978) is hilarious, funny, and hilarious!!! This movie will have you laughing so much that it'll start to hurt! I mean God, what a great movie!! Stoners will love it the most (wink). There is virtually no... Full review
Another one of the funniest films of the 1970's
Nov 10, 2002
soranno - imdb.com
Nov 10, 2002soranno - imdb.com
This 1979 Paramount release introduced the controversial radio comedians Richard "Cheech" Marin and Thomas Chong to the screen for the first of six major film teamings and cameos together in several other films. This first teaming is the best teaming.... Full review
Unless you hate cannabis-comedies, you should enjoy it.
Oct 26, 2002
joey_enns_ironstand - imdb.com
Oct 26, 2002joey_enns_ironstand - imdb.com
This movie isn't so bad. I've heard from plenty of people that it's stupid, has no plot and is a waste of time. The no plot part I can't defend, because it's mostly Cheech & Chong either smoking weed, or... Full review
Great fun!
Jul 29, 2002
steffan-3 - imdb.com
Jul 29, 2002steffan-3 - imdb.com
This one of the movies I never get tired to see, it gets better for every time I see it. There are a lot of enjoyable characters, like Anthony Stoner, Strawberry, Harry, Stedenko, Jade East, The Ajax Lady and of... Full review
THE definitive stoner flick
Jun 05, 2001
sick_boy420xxx - imdb.com
Jun 05, 2001sick_boy420xxx - imdb.com
First of the Cheech and Chong movies is probably the best overall, with the duo involved in a plot to drive a van constructed entirely of pot across the Mexican border into the US and featuring Cheech singing "Earache my... Full review
Great movie. If you don't mind all the pot!
Dec 24, 1998
BizOne - imdb.com
Dec 24, 1998BizOne - imdb.com
Of all the Cheech & Chong movies made, I think this one, their first, was their best. There's no real story line you have to follow. The point of this movie was to make you laugh. No messages or extra... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Jan 13, 2009Fashion.ie, Ireland
If Cheech and Chong were caught doing jacking off in a movie theatre it would have been the funniest thing in the whole world.
Although raided, Chong was not charged with a crime because there were no broken laws.
... Full Review
| Dec 16, 2008MovieWeb
The two companies have acquired animated film rights to the classic Cheech and Chong library held by music producer and Ode Records owner Lou Adler and will use those famous comedy bits to inspire Cheech and Chong's Smokin' Animated Movie . ... Full Review
| Sep 07, 2007dvdtown.com
Cheech and Chong are truly two of the greatest comedy pairs and they where on top of their game in "Up In Smoke.
Im sure the talents of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong had much to do with the success of this film and their ad-libbing and familiarity with their roles perhaps made Adlers job an easy task, but I still feel the comedic timing, visual gags and other elements that are at the whim of the director are incredibly well done and Im surprised that Adler did not find much more success behind the camera af ... Full Review
| Sep 05, 2007Slant Magazine
while purveying an edge-dulling passivity that goes against the disrupting energy of great comedy.....That's the trouble at the center of the benign but tepid ganja-classic Up in Smoke :....Still, most of the movie's charm resides with the two comedians....A bunch of tattered deleted scenes (tagged "roach clips") gives extra glimpses of the movie's assorted loonies, most notably the awesome Harry Dean Stanton (whose scene as an acid-shilling prison guard is entirely missing from the finished film).....Cheec ... Full Review
| Sep 05, 2007Slant Magazine
If Up in Smoke lacks the energy of 1978's other influential, anti-establishment hit, Animal House
As befits the feature debut of two cult counterculture staples venerated for their irreverent grubbiness, Up in Smoke looks as if it cost about $20 to shoot.
... Full Review
News
Film Gecko Five: Top Pot-Smoking Movies
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2009-04-20
Jane Boursaw on April 20th, 2009 Today is National Pot Smoking Day ! Aren't you glad you know that now? I can just imagine a bunch of potheads sitting around deciding that we all need an annual day to celebrate... ... Full Article
Smoke screens
thephoenix.com –
2008-08-18
Cheech & Chong's Friendship: Up in Smoke?
tmz.com –
2008-04-10
Tommy Chong delivered a fatal blow to stoners everywhere yesterday -- dropping the bomb that Cheech & Chong may never reunite again.insertBCSinglePlayer(1497931928);In between creepy talk about Brit gettin' nekkid and who he'd endorse for Prez, Tommy told TMZ why his... ... Full Article
One of the items my teenage daughter put on her Christmas list last year was the DVD collection of That 70s Show. It's one of those sitcoms we didn't watch in original run, but now find that it's hilariously funny. ... Full Article
One of the items my teenage daughter put on her Christmas list last year was the DVD collection of That 70s Show. It's one of those sitcoms we didn't watch in original run, but now find that it's hilariously funny. ... Full Article

Up in Smoke title song- Cheech & Chong, Berkeley Community Theater, November 22, 2008
Cheech & Chong Up In Smoke skit Berkeley Community Theater, Nov. 22, 2008
Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke - The Short Version, Man!
Up In Smoke, song.
