Today, Cheech and Chong's Last Movie premiered at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Here's a collection of reviews.
Exhaustive account of the comic pair's career while doubling as a road-trip comedy.
The filmmaker has uncovered a wealth of vintage clips and archival footage, including priceless scenes of the pair being interviewed at the Playboy Mansion, complete with nude women swimming in the grotto behind them
They bitterly recount how Adler screwed them over and that they made only $2,000 and a tape recorder for the film. Despite that, they’re still on cordial terms with Adler, who briefly shows up in the film when they amusingly spot him walking in the desert and give him a ride.
Their low-key chemistry and obvious affection for each other despite their past issues are still very much on display, delivering a nostalgic kick that you don’t even have to be high to enjoy.
The two remember different versions of the same events, and depending on who’s telling the story, the other half is inevitably portrayed as the malefactor.
“Last Movie” spends most of its runtime recounting in painstaking detail the entire Cheech and Chong history
Some of the footage feels redundant or unnecessary.
Tommy betrays plenty of egotism on his part when he insists he needed full creative control with every successive film and Cheech never quite got over being marginalized in the act.
Grade: B-
Though they don’t come to a concrete agreement on what happened that led to their professional separation, they ultimately agree to not focus on the unimportant issue, and that their friendship prevails.
5 out of 5, man
Clocking in around 2 hours, Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie is a tad lengthy with its very detailed timeline, but it held the audience’s attention anyway.
I wish the film spent less runtime on a goofy script and more on creativity and external sources explaining their lasting impact on film and cannabis culture.
I wished that “Last Movie” simply had more comedy material in it—the balance is sometimes off between how Cheech & Chong got famous when the film could have used a little more why. They were ahead of their time in SO many ways, comedically and culturally, which makes the fact that “Last Movie” feels stuck in the ‘70s and ‘80s all the more disappointing.
From the editors:
After all these years C&C won't fess up and tell the whole truth regarding the breakup and how their wives were involved.
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