More juvenile nonsense from the folks who brought you "Up in Smoke". If redefining the word 'stupid' was the film's mission, then it succeeded immensely. I was only able to tolerate this picture for it's having been included on IMDb's list of Top 250 movies for 1996; it never made it beyond that year. My best takeaways from the picture were the sight gags, like the 'Saydis and Saydat Towing' truck, and the ubiquitous 'Getting Loaded Zone' in Cheech's condemned apartment. Edie McClurg has to be grateful that she had a career after the opening credits introduced her to movie fans who first caught this in theaters, while Paul Reubens/Pee Wee Herman is likely glad to be anywhere at this point. For those reviewers on this board who admit to watching this flick more than once numbering into the dozens or more, I can only say that I admire your intestinal fortitude. For everyone else, my best recommendation for the picture comes from the great Ray Charles himself, who's singing voice at one point coincides with my own opinion, and that's to 'Hit the Road, Jack'.

Cheech (Cheech Marin) and Chong (Tommy Chong) are up to their ridiculous drug-infused brand of misadventures. Cheech loses his job and gets his welfare clerk girl Donna in trouble. Cheech's cousin Red (Cheech Marin) can't pay his hotel bill and the clerk (Paul Reubens) is holding his luggage. Chong helps Red steal his luggage packed with marijuana. This powers Red and Chong on a wild adventure of their own.

The plot meanders all over the place. It feels like they wrote it as they went along. It still has the duo's irreverent fun. It's stupid and it's a good buddy comedy. It's also terrific to see Paul Reubens and a few tangential connections to his Pee Wee character. The movie has the Tequila song at one point. Reubens does one of his iconic Pee Wee lines. He's also an angry standup comic donning his iconic bow-tie suit. The comedy isn't that consistent but it does have a wild sense of fun and at times, a biting sense of satire.

The two stoners (Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong) and their friends go through another series of crazy, drug-influenced misadventures.

Almost everyone agrees that this second Cheech and Chong film is not as good as the first ("Up In Smoke"). I would have to agree with them. Whereas the first film had so many memorable and classic moments, this one just does not have that level of impact. Still fun and funny, but not the cultural milestone of the first film.

Where this film excels is in the casting of Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman, Elvira, Edie McClurg and the Groundlings. And, before the Pee-Wee Herman movie did it, the use of the song "Tequila". Seeing the Groundlings together in one film before many (most?) of them broke into the big time is a special treat.