The partnership of a groundbreaking comedy duo gets the nostalgia-documentary treatment in Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie (now streaming on Paramount+). Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are ubiquitous with stoner comedy, and were the first to truly bring such bluntness to the masses in the 1970s and early ’80s via their wildly popular touring act and several hit movies. But this is a sobering doc in a couple of ways: One, it reveals that these two dudes, despite their appreciation for reefer, actually WEREN’T burnout megastoners in real life, an assumption that’s all too easy to make. And two, it features the aging icons bickering about why they split up their act in 1985, in a manner that’s a little bit staged but a little more real.
The Gist: Par for the course for showbiz documentary retrospectives that lean heavily on talking
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