{"id":36870,"date":"2016-04-18T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=36870"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:24:46","slug":"up-in-smoke-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=36870","title":{"rendered":"Up in Smoke (1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You wanna get high, man?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Poster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Poster.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo hippie stoners (Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin) accidentally drive a truck made of marijuana across the border from Mexico to the United States, pursued by an irate cop (Stacy Keach) and his incompetent men.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Drug Dealers<\/li>\n<li>Stacy Keach Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary notes that this &#8220;screwy screen debut [about] <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheech_%26_Chong\">Cheech and Chong<\/a> trying to score marijuana so their band will be at its best during a battle of the bands at L.A.&#8217;s Roxy&#8221; is &#8220;terribly made&#8221; but &#8220;surprisingly funny&#8221;, and &#8220;by far C&#038;C&#8217;s best movie&#8221;. In his lengthier review of the film for his first <em>Cult Movies<\/em> book, Peary elaborates on scenes he found &#8220;<em>somehow<\/em> funny&#8221; despite his dread of &#8220;scatological and drug-related humor&#8221; (he admits to not seeing it until two years after its release), and points out that &#8220;like many good comedians, Cheech and Chong intentionally write lines that make no sense&#8221;. He notes that while the pair is &#8220;stupid, lazy, and filthy&#8221; they&#8217;re also &#8220;genial and you needn&#8217;t worry that your kids will emulate them because they &#8212; and all other weirdos in this film &#8212; are cartoon characters&#8221;. Indeed, I think it&#8217;s this cartoonish quality that makes it so easy to laugh at silly yet morbid scenes where &#8220;a young woman thinks a plate of Ajax is cocaine and sniffs it all up, [making] several great distorted expression&#8221;, or when &#8220;the police dog that sniffs their Fibreweed-made van ends up a stiff on its back&#8221;. Keach plays an excellent straight man (complete with a villainous mustache and incompetent lackeys), and Jade East nearly steals the show as a Shelley Duvall-esque stoner who can&#8217;t seem to stop talking.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plenty of surprisingly enjoyable lowbrow humor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Groupie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Groupie-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Groupie-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Groupie-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Groupie-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Groupie-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Munchies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Munchies-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Munchies-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Munchies-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Munchies-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-Munchies-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Good use of L.A. locales<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-LA-Locales.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-LA-Locales-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-LA-Locales-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-LA-Locales-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-LA-Locales-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Up-in-Smoke-LA-Locales-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, for its cult status. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078446\/\">IMDb entry<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1769&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwipster.net\/upinsmoke.htm\">Qwipster Review<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/us\/film\/up-in-smoke\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You wanna get high, man?&#8221; Synopsis: Two hippie stoners (Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin) accidentally drive a truck made of marijuana across the border from Mexico to the United States, pursued by an irate cop (Stacy Keach) and his incompetent men. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Comedy Drug Dealers Stacy Keach Films Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary notes that this &#8220;screwy screen debut [about] Cheech and Chong trying to score marijuana so their band will be at its best during&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=36870\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36870"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61689,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870\/revisions\/61689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}