Hey Watch This

As it started I was worried that it was going to be a greatest hits package and I was yearning for something more (or so I thought).

Once it gets going after a short time, new material kicks in as well as my love for their old content.

I was laughing my butt off and had a great time watching the movie :)

I was lucky enough to see Cheech and Chong during their "Light Up America" tour. It was a great night. So much fun. I was a teenager when Cheech and Chong's albums were coming out. I was a fan but I wasn't old enough to have seen them live. So when their reunion tour was announced I was all in. I saw them in Westbury, NY. The DVD Cheech & Chong's "Hey Watch This" was filmed in San Antonio, TX but the feel of the evening is just the same. It's terrific. C&C put a ton of life into their classic routines. Updated but still true to the originals. It was like hanging out with two old friends. Cheech & Chong's "Hey Watch This" has the same feel.

Cheech and Chong are back and, um, smokin'! The duo performs in San Antonio, talking a lot about things that happened in recent years (namely Chong's drug bust). Naturally, there's a lot of plain old crude humor, but also shots of the guys as audience members and fashionistas, and even some shots of them changing costumes. But the best parts are of course the acts (which occasionally include Chong's wife Shelby).

I've never seen C&C live, although my dad once did. If "Hey Watch This" is any indication, it must be a truly fun experience to watch those guys perform. I certainly hope to see them in concert one day. Really fun. So just remember what Mexican-Americans like.

Through the 1970's on into the early 1980's Cheech and Chong kept The World stoned with their brand of comedy. Millions of records were sold, several movies were made between Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios. The party seemed to never end but all that came to a screeching halt and Cheech and Chong went their separate ways. Cheech sobered up and became a big star while Chong just stayed Chong and smoked his way through the 1990's and into the millennium.

This Live Concert taken from the Light Up America and Canada Tour gets Cheech and Chong back together again, They are older, fatter, wrinklier, grayer, yet still they are Cheech and Chong. This show was actually what they performed back in their club days in Canada before they came down to the U.S.A. and smoked everyone up.

This DVD was released the same day as it was broadcast at movie theaters across the U.S. on 4/20.

Although I love some of their movies, I've always felt like Cheech & Chong's stand up routines are lewd, tasteless and don't compare to other comedians of their era. Their "stoners on a journey" schtick has made for some hilarious comedies, but in my opinion does not translate well to the stage.Richard Pryor, for example, was as vulgar as they come, but he was able to add substance and some biting social commentary to his act. C&C, on the other hand, just do vulgarity for vulgarity's sake. This movie was more or less a bad remake of a horrible concert movie, 1983's "Still Smokin". Unless you're a huge C&C fan, steer clear of this one. If you are a C&C newbie, I would recommend watching "Up in Smoke" instead.