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...sprawled about in parkas, plaid shirts and toques, guzzling their beloved Molson's and calling each other "hosers." Now they have been given 90 minutes of screen time and a license to steal children's lunch money. Strange Brew, which the two stars also directed, sets the Cheech and Chong of malt into an informal remake of Hamlet and includes "quotations" from Star Wars, Superman, W.C. Fields movies and Polish jokes. (Sample dialogue, Bob to heroine: "Hey, you're real nice. If I didn't have puke breath I'd kiss you.") On TV Thomas...
...avid and adept punster, hits his stride when it comes to creating lists. While in "Nawlins," the birthplace of jazz, two "frenchies" recite for Blue some of the great names of Jazz such as Jimbo Verlaine's Rainmakers, Fats Gide with the Baton Rouge Boys, Valery Conga, Booker Cesaire, Cheech Mauriac with the Femmes Fatales and Peanuts Prevert. Or take the roll call of an academic cocktail party where...
...designated mark. Context is all. To use only snippets from these movies, as It Came from Hollywood does, is to deprive them of their paper-thin texture. In an attempt at the That's Entertainment of bad films, five comic actors-Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and Cheech and Chong-introduce segments about gorillas, musicals, reefers, mixed-up teens and the mesmerizing oeuvre of the Poverty Row Stroheim, Edward D. Wood...
...tone throughout It Came from Hollywood is one of jolly contempt-an attitude that might better be reserved for such recent films as Hanky Panky, Neighbors, Stripes or any Cheech and Chong picture. The detritus of movie history deserves better; one man's junk is another's priceless antique...
Dumb marches on. The insidious movement to anesthetize the American moviegoer's mind, which began with Animal House, picked up converts with the Cheech and Chong farces and came close to sweeping the country with Porky 's, may now triumph with Young Doctors in Love. The picture is just gross and artless (and canny) enough in its flat, untextured sitcom way to attract millions of eleven-year-olds who have left their brains in their classrooms. Its humor is based on brand-name recognition: if you're aware of the particular movie, video game or soap being...