In a double whammy of breaking news, Cheech and Chong made an animated movie, and that movie has a trailer. Yes, the movie was actually written by Cheech and Chong. I don’t want to say the jokes are lazy, but there’s a box in there that literally just says “Munchies.” That’s like the political cartoon equivalent of a drawing of a guy wearing a shirt that says “politician.” You can watch the trailer below, but be warned, a few of the jokes reference drugs.
I first told you about Cheech and Chong’s reunion tour back in 2008, and while I’ve heard almost nothing about it since then, it must’ve done well because they’ve done them again and again, with another one planned for this year with WAR and Tower of Power.
The film hits theaters April 18th (4/20 comes early!), and for the sake of science, I did an accounting of all the punchline moments in the trailer and what they were about:
Giant joint
Farting in the car
Show called “let’s make a dope deal.”
Blind guy falls down (with anvil sound effect)
Two dogs sh*tting on each other
A “sexually-transmitted body crab” wearing a tank top and boardshorts.
Giant pubes
Too many “reds”
Tripping over stuff while high
Callback to “Dave’s not here!”
Coughing while high
Peeing on stuff
Another callback to “Dave’s not here!”
Rembrandt sculpture made of dog poop
Callback to body crab
Guy getting a blow job
After nine albums and eight previous feature films all about stoners, you’d think they would start to run out of material, but clearly, that hasn’t happened. There’s probably a joke to be made here about being able to repeat the same jokes over and over when all your fans are stoned, but what was I talking about again?
I’m all for making the world safe for fart, dick, drug, and dog poop humor, because that’s the world I want to live in, but it’s hard not to feel like this is a bit dated. These days, stoner humor seems less about watching other people get stoned than it is about watching anthropomorphized munchie foods go on adventures, or something else I’m too old to know about now. But then, I’m not sure the youth of America are the target audience for this. More likely, the target audience are… well, probably vanners, if I had to guess.
Someone has the joyous job of projecting a Flash cartoon on a large screen.
so you’re telling me this crappy flash animation is gonna be released in actual movie theaters?
If by “theaters” you mean newgrounds.com
The premise and jokes actually seem less outdated than the use of Flash.
WebGL or GTFO?
You guys are so right about the Flash. They totally should have hired James Cameroon to do an underwater mo-cap of greying and bloated Chong & Marin’s bodies for this and rendered it in full IMax 3D.
That actually sounds like the ultimate stoner movie.
I will watch this while eating an entire pan of brownies. I’m just saying.
” NEVERENDING STORY VAN PEOPLE ARE STILL MAD
Written by Vince Mancini / 08.13.09″
I just realized I’ve been reading this site well over ten times as long as my longest relationship. Fuck me.
I still can’t believe they didn’t legalize pot back in the seventies.
That would have changed the face of stoner comedies. Nobody would be on the hunt for marijuana because they would be growing it in their backyard or basement.
First Jay and Silent Bob got and animated movie and now Cheech and Chong? Who’s next? Harold and Kumar?
Bob & Doug Mackenzie, never forget.
With the quality level of the formers’ animation, a Harold and Kumar one would be stick figures animated by Mrs. Feldman’s third grade art class
Bob and Doug MacKenzie already happened …
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Aaaaaand Howard and Kumar’s Animated Space Adventure was just greenlighted.
Ok, just so we’re clear, they aren’t rehashing their old material exactly. No, they’re releasing the exact same material, featuring Flash animated visual aids. So it’s more of a remastering.
Tell you what, if they have Basketball Jones and Earache My Eye, I’m cool with that, because them shits still funny.
Let’s Make a Dope Deal is still one of my all time favorite comedy bits ..
“One day, I played Black Sabbath at 78 speed, man.”
“And what happened, Bob?”
“I saw God.”
“I’ve DONE that, man!’
“Really?”
“Yeah, with Grand Funk.”
Porky is right. This actually appears to be one of their old comedy tapes, or more likely a ‘best of’ their old tapes – yes I’m that old that owned cheech & chong on cassette and my brother and I would listen and giggle even though we barely understood any of it – and put it to a cartoon. Far from groundbreaking, but I think even the trailer made it obvious that it was just their old bits set to cartoon.
Better animation than that Jay & Silent Bob trailer. Jokes look slightly worse. Though the J&SB ones were BAD.