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...faith with the film's realistic premise. Then there is the question of plot development to consider. In Fame nothing ordinary happens to people. Does the best comedian in the class get a job in a club before he graduates? Then you may be sure he succumbs to dope. Does a young actor betray uncommon sensitivity? Then homosexuality is his inevitable lot. The dancer with the greatest natural gift? His poverty and illiteracy make him prone to self-destructive violence...
...little thrilling to see illicit drugs on the big screen, thrilling enough that they will howl and yell and carry on at the sight of the drug. And so the pair, aging Chicano drifters, draw laughs with an elaborate series of sight gags and one-liners, all connected to dope...
Together long enough to master timing and goofy faces, the pair are best when they forget about dope and concentrate on telling jokes. When hundreds of police arrive to arrest them, they innocently wander out the back way, mingle with the cops, and make an eight-track recording of their sirens. This may not sound funny, but it is--humor being relative. Later, they play the instruments in a music store so loudly that they catch on fire. They take over the stage in a nightclub and tell dirty jokes until a chair-throwing brawl breaks out. They wander through...
Ambition, in excess, can be dangerous. Cheech and Chong are fine as long as they stay in the barrio or the nightclub telling jokes and smoking dope. But the movie fails when it strives for epic humor. There are aliens, who appear suddenly, smoking dope by the treeful and sucking our heroes aboard. They give them "space coke," a powerful enough high to send the boys into orbit. And there are these awful dream sequences, including one depicting attempted necrophilia on the altar of some Mexican...
...real message of Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, cleverly repeated again and again, is that dope is no more inherently funny than alcohol. There is no more substance to it, no mysterious properties that make those under its influence irresistibly hilarious. It seems likely that great comedians could do great dope routines--Charlie Chaplin Visits Jamaica--but it is not fantastically funny simply to light up a joint. If you have always enjoyed American screen humorists, however, go see this; it rivals anything Abbott and Costello ever...