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{{Short description|1980 film by Cheech and Chong}}

{{Infobox film
| name           = Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
| image          = Cheech & Chong's Next Movie.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Tommy Chong]]
| producer       = Howard Brown
| writer         = Tommy Chong<br>[[Cheech Marin]]
| starring       = Cheech Marin<br>Tommy Chong
| music          = Mark Davis
| cinematography = King Baggot<br>[[Nick McLean]]
| editing        = Thomas K. Avildsen<br>[[Scott Conrad]]
| color_process  = [[Technicolor]]
| studio         = [[Universal Pictures]]
| distributor    = Universal Pictures
| released       = {{Film date|1980|07|18}}
| runtime        = 94 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         =
| gross          = $41.7 million
}}

'''''Cheech and Chong's Next Movie''''' is a 1980 American [[comedy film]] directed by [[Tommy Chong]] and the second feature-length project by [[Cheech & Chong]], following ''[[Up in Smoke]]'', released by [[Universal Pictures]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980) CHEECH AND CHONG MAKE THEIR 'NEXT MOVIE'|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9900E4D61638F93AA25754C0A966948260|last=Canby|first=Vincent|authorlink=Vincent Canby|date=July 19, 1980|work=[[The New York Times]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019221136/https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9900E4D61638F93AA25754C0A966948260|archive-date=October 19, 2013|access-date=}}</ref>

==Plot==
[[Cheech & Chong]] are on a mission to siphon gasoline for their next door neighbor's car, which they apparently "borrowed," and continue with their day; Cheech goes to work at a movie studio and Chong searches for something to smoke (a [[Roach (cannabis culture)|roach]]), followed by him revving up an indoor motorcycle and playing extremely loud rock music with an electric guitar that disturbs the entire neighborhood. Cheech gets fired from his job for taking one of the studio vans home without permission and they go to see Donna, a welfare officer and Cheech's off and on girlfriend. Cheech successfully seduces Donna, under her objections, and gets her in trouble (and possibly fired) with her boss. The doped-up duo are expelled from the building and, in an attempt to find alternative means of income, start writing songs like, "Mexican Americans" and "Beaners."

Cheech answers the phone call from Donna, sets up a date, and goes to tell Chong to get lost so he can clean the house and get ready for Donna. The phone rings again with Cheech thinking it's Donna and turns out to be Red, Cheech's "kinda" cousin, with money problems and a plea for help. Cheech asks Chong to pick up his cousin and hang out with him as Cheech informs him they have similar interests like "go to clubs," "get plenty of chicks," and "likes to get high." Chong heads off to the hotel where Red is staying and arrives to find him in a dispute with the receptionist over how much the room is costing ("$37.50 a week, not a goddamned day!"). The receptionist is holding his luggage, consisting of a boom-box, a suitcase, and a 20-pound canvas bag full of high-grade [[marijuana]], hostage and Red can't afford the bill. They break into the room around the back and Red retrieves his luggage and the receptionist is falsely arrested after calling the cops to arrest Chong and Red but accidentally assaults them and is taken away to jail.

Later, on the corner, a roller-skater invites them to a "party," which is in fact a [[brothel]]. They are kicked out of the place for causing too much commotion, sharing weed with the girls, and urinating in the [[Jacuzzi]]. They then play a recording from Red's boombox that Red recorded earlier when the police arrived at the hotel he was staying at over the dispute with his luggage, which scares everyone off. One of the girls from the brothel accompanies them and they all go onto [[Sunset Boulevard]] in search of adventure and more highness. After visiting the house of a girl's parents, whom they found at a music store on [[Ventura Boulevard]], they all get into the parents' [[Rolls-Royce Motors|Rolls Royce]], light up a [[spliff]], and drive to a stand-up comedy club where they tell jokes and encounter the angry hotel receptionist who was falsely arrested earlier that day and begin a commotion with him and a large female bouncer leading to a rally fight. Later that night, they are chased by the cops as they check out Red's weed fields out in the countryside. They set off fireworks and are suddenly abducted by a [[UFO]] along with several of the cannabis plants. Cheech meanwhile gets so pumped and excited about the date that he wears himself out and ends up sleeping through it, while dreaming about what might have happened. He wakes up in the morning to find Chong (who was abducted by [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]] alongside Red) bursting in, dressed in what appears to be a cross between [[Genghis Khan]] and a [[Viking]], holding a jar of "space coke", which Chong says, "It'll blow your head off." The "space coke" causes Cheech to go berserk and starts trashing their next door neighbor's house with a surprised Chong following after. The film ends with the duo bursting through their neighbor's roof into outer space, achieving the ultimate high and Chong dropping the "space coke" back to Earth for others to try which leads to an animated sequence with Cheech and Chong ascending into a [[Blunt (cannabis cigar)|blunt]] which then takes off displaying the caption "That's It Man!"

==Cast==
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* [[Cheech Marin]] as Cheech / Dwayne 'Red' Mendoza
* [[Tommy Chong]] as Chong
* [[Evelyn Guerrero]] as Donna
* [[Paul Reubens]] as Desk Clerk / [[Pee-Wee Herman]]
* Betty Kennedy as Candy
* Sy Kramer as Mr. Neatnik
* Rikki Marin as Gloria
* [[Edie McClurg]] as Gloria's Mother
* [[Bob McClurg]] as Charlie "Chicken Charlie"
* [[John Paragon]] as Director
* [[Jake Steinfeld]] as Wamba
* [[Cassandra Peterson]] and [[Rita Wilson]] as Hostages
* [[Michael Winslow]] as Welfare Comedian
* [[John Steadman (actor)|John Steadman]] as Welfare Drunk
* [[Faith Minton]] as Lady Bouncer
* [[Ben Powers]] as Welfare Black
* [[Carl Weintraub]] as Hotel Cop
* [[Lupe Ontiveros|Lupe M. Ontiveros]] as Old Lady
{{div col end}}

==Release==

===Television edit===

The television edit of the film, in addition to being edited for content such as the removal of all sequences in which characters are seen smoking cannabis, contained many extended and additional scenes, and alternate dialogue, as well as a different music score.

The opening credits animated sequence was different from the theatrical cut, showing Cheech and Chong stealing their neighbor's car, which runs out of gas. It also features a theme song which didn't appear in the theatrical cut.<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=01:00 to 03:13 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> After the opening credits, there is a scene which did not appear in the theatrical cut establishing that [[Extraterrestrial life|extraterrestrial]]s have come to Earth looking for diamonds, "the principle source of energy" on the planet Asp.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=03:13 to 04:56 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> After Cheech and Chong siphon gas for their neighbor's car, insert shots underneath the hood are seen, showing the gas leaking and then igniting into flames, rather than the explosion being caused by Chong lighting a match inside the car.<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=08:28 to 09:45 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> Cheech and Chong are said to be running a teen center and playground, which is referenced throughout the television edit, and a sign for it is shown repeatedly.<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=14:20 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> Cheech and Chong's neighbor is shown to have a job as a piano teacher, and a lesson he is giving to a neighborhood teenager is interrupted by Chong's guitar playing.<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=19:41 to 20:26 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> After the prop slot machine Cheech stole from a movie set falls on the neighbor, and they lift it off him, he threatens to sue them, claiming that the prop injured his hands, which would prevent him from playing the piano as part of his job, but offers to call off the lawsuit if Cheech and Chong let him have the rare costumes Cheech stole from the movie studio.<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=23:03 to 25:30 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> Instead of teaching Chong the phrase "hey, pendejo", the line is redubbed as "hey, paisano".<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |people=Marin, Cheech |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=28:18 to 28:27 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> After Cheech sends Chong to pick up Red at the hotel so Cheech can spend the evening with Donna, there is an additional scene of Cheech cleaning the house,<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Marin, Cheech |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=42:20 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> and Chong attempts to steal the neighbor's car again while he is working on it, but decides to hitchhike instead when he realizes that the neighbor was underneath the car.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=43:02 to 44:06 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> While cleaning, Cheech is interrupted by [[Jehovah's witness]]es, and slams the door in their face.<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=44:07 to 44:47 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref>

When he's calling the police, the hotel receptionist's line "Look, I think they're [[Iran]]ians!" was redubbed as "Look, I think they're [[communism|communists]]!"<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Reubens, Paul |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=50:04  |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> The extraterrestrials are then shown to be following Red in the hopes that he will lead them to "the diamond field"; after Red's duffel bag is retrieved, a different [[Cutaway (filmmaking)|cutaway]] shot is shown depicting the inside of the bag as containing diamonds, not cannabis buds.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=50:39 to 51:22 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> Before the music store scene, there is an additional shot of a spaceship and an additional scene featuring a street musician.<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=59:19 to 59:43 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> The music store scene is also extended, showing more of Red playing guitar and throwing guitars to the other customers.<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=59:44 to 01:02:40 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> After it is revealed that "Chicken Charlie" is the father of Gloria, the woman Red, Chong and the prostitute hitched a ride with, when the prostitute recognizes him, there is an additional scene where the group has a dinner and uncomfortable conversation before they move into the living room, where Gloria sings the [[Jimmy Reed]] song "[[Baby What You Want Me to Do]]".<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=01:06:57 to 01:08:05 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> In the living room, instead of performing the dirty magic trick, Red instead suggests that they drive to The Comedy House. This edit removed Charlie's wife smoking cannabis in the car.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=01:08:44 to 01:08:50 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> When Red performs the Mexico joke at The Comedy House, the line "donkey's balls" is redubbed as "donkey's tail".<ref>{{cite AV media  |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=01:12:38 to 01:13:40 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> When Chong gets on the stage, the sequence in which he repeats Red's magic trick of turning a glass "into a dick" is removed, and there is an alternate scene in which Chong comically hits the masculine lady wrestler on the head to no effect; she does not break the glass.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=01:13:57 to 01:14:46 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref>

When Red and Chong are abducted by the extraterrestrials, additional dialogue is dubbed in, and there is an additional scene with Red and Chong on the space ship, where the extraterrestrials tell Red and Chong that they will teach them to "fly like [[Peter Pan]]" in order to retrieve diamonds for them.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=01:27:17 to 01:30:20 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref> When Chong is back on Earth talking to Cheech at the end, the dialogue is completely redubbed, removing the references to "space [[cocaine|coke]]", and instead having Chong telling Cheech that the extraterrestrials taught him how to fly; this edit ends with an extended animated sequence in which Cheech and Chong fly into space to join Red on the spaceship and an extraterrestrial superhero plays guitar before turning into a dragon, and the Cheech and Chong Teen Center and Playground sign is shown one final time before the credits roll, as we hear Red laughing and asking, "ya get it?"<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Chong, Tommy |date=1980 |title=Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (TV edit) |language=English|url=https://archive.org/details/ccnm-tv |access-date=2022-01-16 |format=MP4 |time=01:32:19 to 01:34:07 |publisher=Internet Archive }}</ref>

===Home media===
A novelization was released in 1980.

The film was released on Blu-ray in 2017, containing the theatrical cut, trailer, radio spots and an interview with Cheech Marin. It did not include the television cut of the film or any deleted scenes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/9704-REVIEW-CHEECH-AND-CHONGS-NEXT-MOVIE-1980;-SHOUT!-FACTORY-BLU-RAY-SPECIAL-EDITION.html|title = REVIEW: "CHEECH AND CHOng's NEXT MOVIE" (1980); SHOUT! FACTORY BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION - Cinema Retro}}</ref>

===Critical reception===
[[Roger Ebert]]'s review was negative, writing: "This movie is embarrassing. There's no invention in it, no imagination, no new comic vision, no ideas about what might be really funny -- instead of just dope-funny, something to laugh at if you're in the bag anyway."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/06/15/tommy-chong-reefer-sadness/9d60c577-d019-4282-8577-95733a5ec1b8/?noredirect=on |title=Tommy Chong: Reefer Sadness |last=Mills |first=David |date=June 15, 1991 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=December 4, 2018 }}</ref> [[Gene Siskel]] gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that it was "much better" than ''Up in Smoke'', "which isn't saying that much. It's just that its jokes come a little quicker and a few of them are funny even to the chemically unaltered viewer."<ref>[[Gene Siskel|Siskel, Gene]] (July 21, 1980). "Cheech and Chong cultivate mix of corn and weed". ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. Section 2, p. 6.</ref> [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that the film was "casual, slapdash and rude, and it's frequently hilarious in the way of some intense but harmless confrontation between eccentrics on a street corner."<ref>[[Vincent Canby|Canby, Vincent]] (July 19, 1980). "[https://www.nytimes.com/1980/07/19/archives/film-cheech-and-chong-make-their-next-movie-the-cast.html Film: Cheech and Chong Make Their 'Next Movie]'". ''[[The New York Times]]''. 8.</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called the film "a laborious disappointment in which the freshness has vanished and the laughs come few and far between."<ref>"Film Reviews: Cheech And Chong's Next Movie". ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. July 23, 1980. 18.</ref>

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