Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie

The fabled stoner comedy duo get their own documentary, and it’s good enough to give you a contact high. We learn about their life stories (Chong was an accomplished musician in a group signed by Motown; Cheech was passionate about being a potter), their beyond-random meet-up, the way they invented a vibe of comedy that’s now as mainstream as the cannabis outlet down the block…and, tying the film together in a rather delightful way, we get the two of them today, driving through the desert in a Rolls Royce with a marijuana-leaf hood ornament, still smokin’ and still at war. Getting high was once thought of as a revolutionary activity, a path to freeing your mind from excessive, conventional rationality. Before long, though, it had become just another zoned-out hedonistic middle-class pastime. “Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie” celebrates how Cheech and Chong made comic gold out of the pivot point between those two things. They made us laugh at how we’d all learned to stop worrying and love the bong.