Why Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie should have audiences rolling in the aisles
Cheech and Chong return with a documentary about their stoner comedy and film careers since the 60s, including their split in 1985
Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, which hit cinemas on April 25, answers a lot of questions about the stoner comedy duo’s career.
But it also raises a few big ones along the way, chief among them, given the title: is this truly the final silver-screen session for the pair, now 78 and 86 respectively? And how, after a contentious creative split four decades ago, did they find themselves reunited for, of all things, a documentary?
“It’s [actually] the next-to-the-last movie, but that doesn’t sound right,” quips Richard “Cheech” Marin with a slight shrug and a wan chuckle. “You never know.”
“God only knows,” Tommy Chong says. “It all depends on the script. Everything depends on the script.”
What reunited them on the big screen for the first time since 1984’s The Corsican Brothers?