Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams
Starring:Benita Barrie, Sandra Bernhard, Big Yank, Don Carlson, David Castle, Jerry Chambers, Jennifer Child, Shelby Chong, Tommy Chong, Tony Cox, Roderick F. Daniels, Jimmy Fame, James Faracci, Lorraine Fiorito, Mickey Fox, Frances Gray, Evelyn Guerrero, Jeff Imada, Peter Jason, Cheech Marin
Director: Tommy Chong
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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The 1981 stoner comedy Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams is the third of Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin's movies together, a meanderingly silly but agreeable farce about two clods selling marijuana treats from the back of an ice cream truck. Oblivious to an investigation by a couple of idiot cops whose boss (Stacy Keach) is constantly high from smoking evidence, the boys stumble through one crazy vignette after another. A few of these scenes feel like satiric spins on bad experiences Cheech and Chong might have had in the recording business, such as an evening spent with an obnoxious band manager who mistakes Tommy for Jerry Garcia and steals the Chinese food right off his restaurant table. Other craziness includes a night of sexual bliss interrupted by the arrival of a party girl's "Mexican-hating" biker-boyfriend, and incarceration in a padded room, where Timothy Leary supplies psychedelics to the clueless anti-heroes. Paul Reubens, Sandra Bernhard, and Linnea Quigley turn up in supporting roles. --Tom Keogh
Average customer rating:
- Where're their heads at?
- 2 funny guys in a very strange film!
- Good Times Watchin Nice Dreams!!
- Prolly my Favt Cheech and Chong movie.
- I sell sea shells
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Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams
Starring: Benita Barrie , Sandra Bernhard , Big Yank , Don Carlson , and David Castle
Director: Tommy Chong
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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- Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
- Up in Smoke
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- Cheech and Chong - Things Are Tough All Over
- Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
ASIN: B00005BIU6
Release Date: 2001-06-12 |
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The 1981 stoner comedy Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams is the third of Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin's movies together, a meanderingly silly but agreeable farce about two clods selling marijuana treats from the back of an ice cream truck. Oblivious to an investigation by a couple of idiot cops whose boss (Stacy Keach) is constantly high from smoking evidence, the boys stumble through one crazy vignette after another. A few of these scenes feel like satiric spins on bad experiences Cheech and Chong might have had in the recording business, such as an evening spent with an obnoxious band manager who mistakes Tommy for Jerry Garcia and steals the Chinese food right off his restaurant table. Other craziness includes a night of sexual bliss interrupted by the arrival of a party girl's "Mexican-hating" biker-boyfriend, and incarceration in a padded room, where Timothy Leary supplies psychedelics to the clueless anti-heroes. Paul Reubens, Sandra Bernhard, and Linnea Quigley turn up in supporting roles. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
Where're their heads at?.......2006-08-11
This is the third Cheech and Chong film, coming after Up in Smoke (1978) and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980). The films are a series in the traditional way--characters continue, and there is something of a linear development per the films' chronologies of the characters, but as with the plot of this film in isolation, the threads holding it all together are pretty thin.
In Nice Dreams, Cheech and Chong are selling dope from a barely disguised ice cream truck. They may have struck it rich by this point, or maybe Cheech just doesn't know how to read numbers very well. At any rate, they do not seem to be hurting for money--they have a bag of it, after all, which they have to pursue later in the film--and somehow, they're living in a very expensive, big house on the beach outside of Los Angeles, although it seems that maybe they're just crashing at a friend of a friend's place while he's away (he's a musician on tour).
A lot of it is pretty unclear, because the last thing that Cheech and Chong as writers and director (only Chong in the latter case) are concerned with is telling anything like a traditional story. Instead, it seems like maybe they were high while they wrote and filmed this. That's usually meant as a negative--the idea is to denote how little sense the work makes, or how little coherence it has. I don't mean it that way here. I don't mean it as a knock, necessarily. I mean it literally, and consequently to underscore a kind of stream-of-consciousness, absurdist and surreal flow. Those can all be very positive qualities, as they are occasionally here. But maybe Cheech and Chong were just looking for the easiest way to string together a number of sketch ideas, and not enough sketch ideas, because some of them are drawn out or reprised past their freshness date. And that probably goes for the whole premise of Cheech and the Man (Chong) selling dope and getting into wacky situations while being pursued by Sgt. Stedanko (Stacy Keach). Nice Dreams feels too much like Cheech and Chong are just coasting--vamping while waiting for the next soloist to start. Although I love experimentation as much as anyone else, this is a film that would have benefited from a stronger focus on telling a story in a traditional way. I don't always think that something different is better just because it's different.
So this is definitely a step down from the first two films, although there are more than enough funny moments to keep a fan of the first two films mildly entertained, and most of the supporting actors, including the returning ones, are enjoyable and had even more potential. Some skits (that word fits here better than "scenes"), like the crazy house and the fiasco at Donna's apartment, and even the "Save the Whales" song, are as good as most of the material in the first two films. But overall, it just seems like their hearts, and maybe their heads, weren't as much into making a film time around.
2 funny guys in a very strange film!.......2006-02-20
This was a very weird film with lizard people and pot smoking cops. Bits are funny, but the weirdness definately permeates through most of the film, especially a sequence near the end where Cheech & Chong are being held in a padded cell. trippy stuff, which kept me interested, but not as funny as I had hoped. Up in Smoke still remains my favorite in the Cheech & Chong series.
Good Times Watchin Nice Dreams!!.......2005-10-17
Great Flick to kick back and toke a big fatty to, gotta love this one! But wtf is up w/PeeWee Herman's "Hamburger Dude" character??? They must have been on acid when they thought that up...Speaking of acid, Dr. Timothy Leary makes a cameo which is totally awesome! yeah, rock on Cheech & Tommy!
Prolly my Favt Cheech and Chong movie........2005-07-03
I liked this movie alot and I have seen it about 20 times. It is just laid back and does not take a lot to follow it.
From the point where they sell there weed out of there old Ice Cream truck and are followed by cops and Sgt Stedanko who a couple years earlier was a serious cop and now makes bust to get the weed.Then they get some weed from Jimmy's house. Then they find out they made 17 million from the deals and celebrate and by goibg out to eat. There is a lady who things chong is Jerry Garcia. Then a Ex girlfriend of Cheech is there with Hamberger dude(Pee Wee Herman)and they do coke. After this She along with Cheech and Chong go back to the hotel for a 3 way.
Then her Husband a convict that escaped comes to beat up and Cheech escapes naked and goes up and down a elevator shaft.When they finally get out Cheech finds out Chong gave Hamberger dude all the money and they look for him at Casa Del Wacko's.
I sell sea shells.......2005-06-14
I'd never seen this one before, been hanging out to tho. It's fianlly been released in Australia and it comes with absolutly nothing but the movie: not even a trailer!
The movie is typical Cheech & Chong stoner humor. They go from selling drugs to trying to get there money back they made from it, but I got the impression that Nice Dreams would mean they where gonnah be doing a bunch of sketches in there dreams as they laid passed out stoned, but it turned out to be the name of there Ice Cream truck they use to deliver the dope in.
The humor is ok, ut's not the best of the C&C series, but it's OK in my book. Tho, if -Columbian-Tri-Hards are going to release DVD's with nothing else on them, then why not put 2 or 3 movies on one disc and make it a double feature? This one would have been good with there other columbian release "Things Are Tough All Over". And Universal should put "Get Out of my room" on the "Next Movie" DVD as a bonus feature.
These movies companys just ignore the Cheech & Chong franshicse, it's a shame they give no attention to these yet pack a useless movie like Leagelly Blonde into a 2 disc special edition, not to mention it's the first edition released.. then when it flops, make a sequel.
Man, I hope C&C get back together to make a new Cheech & Chong movie, we need more comedys like these that you actualy wanna go and see.
Average customer rating:
- Where're their heads at?
- 2 funny guys in a very strange film!
- Good Times Watchin Nice Dreams!!
- Prolly my Favt Cheech and Chong movie.
- I sell sea shells
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Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
Starring: Cheech & Chong
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
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DVDs Under $7.49
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
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All Sony Pictures Titles
| Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
| Studio Specials
| Stores
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Similar Items:
- Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
- Up in Smoke
- Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin'
- Cheech and Chong - Things Are Tough All Over
- Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
ASIN: B000EQ45CE
Release Date: 2006-05-09 |
Amazon.com
The 1981 stoner comedy Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams is the third of Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin's movies together, a meanderingly silly but agreeable farce about two clods selling marijuana treats from the back of an ice cream truck. Oblivious to an investigation by a couple of idiot cops whose boss (Stacy Keach) is constantly high from smoking evidence, the boys stumble through one crazy vignette after another. A few of these scenes feel like satiric spins on bad experiences Cheech and Chong might have had in the recording business, such as an evening spent with an obnoxious band manager who mistakes Tommy for Jerry Garcia and steals the Chinese food right off his restaurant table. Other craziness includes a night of sexual bliss interrupted by the arrival of a party girl's "Mexican-hating" biker-boyfriend, and incarceration in a padded room, where Timothy Leary supplies psychedelics to the clueless anti-heroes. Paul Reubens, Sandra Bernhard, and Linnea Quigley turn up in supporting roles. --Tom Keogh
Description
NICE DREAMS - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this thoroughly wacky comedy. The outrageous, permanently spaced-out duo sells enough of their "specially mixed" ice cream to take the cash and realize their fondest dreams: new guitars, islands in the sun and beautiful women. But, of course, not everything goes as planned. While celebrating their wealth in anew wave Chinese restaurant, Cheech meets his long-lost love Donna (Evelyn Guerrero), and promptly escorts her to her posh penthouse. He soon learns, however, that Donna's boyfriend, an ex-con named Animal (Michael Masters), is on his way to her boudoir. Meanwhile, Chong has unwittingly exchanged all their money for a worthless bank check - and the only way to get it back is to escape into a nearby insane asylum.
Customer Reviews:
Where're their heads at?.......2006-08-11
This is the third Cheech and Chong film, coming after Up in Smoke (1978) and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980). The films are a series in the traditional way--characters continue, and there is something of a linear development per the films' chronologies of the characters, but as with the plot of this film in isolation, the threads holding it all together are pretty thin.
In Nice Dreams, Cheech and Chong are selling dope from a barely disguised ice cream truck. They may have struck it rich by this point, or maybe Cheech just doesn't know how to read numbers very well. At any rate, they do not seem to be hurting for money--they have a bag of it, after all, which they have to pursue later in the film--and somehow, they're living in a very expensive, big house on the beach outside of Los Angeles, although it seems that maybe they're just crashing at a friend of a friend's place while he's away (he's a musician on tour).
A lot of it is pretty unclear, because the last thing that Cheech and Chong as writers and director (only Chong in the latter case) are concerned with is telling anything like a traditional story. Instead, it seems like maybe they were high while they wrote and filmed this. That's usually meant as a negative--the idea is to denote how little sense the work makes, or how little coherence it has. I don't mean it that way here. I don't mean it as a knock, necessarily. I mean it literally, and consequently to underscore a kind of stream-of-consciousness, absurdist and surreal flow. Those can all be very positive qualities, as they are occasionally here. But maybe Cheech and Chong were just looking for the easiest way to string together a number of sketch ideas, and not enough sketch ideas, because some of them are drawn out or reprised past their freshness date. And that probably goes for the whole premise of Cheech and the Man (Chong) selling dope and getting into wacky situations while being pursued by Sgt. Stedanko (Stacy Keach). Nice Dreams feels too much like Cheech and Chong are just coasting--vamping while waiting for the next soloist to start. Although I love experimentation as much as anyone else, this is a film that would have benefited from a stronger focus on telling a story in a traditional way. I don't always think that something different is better just because it's different.
So this is definitely a step down from the first two films, although there are more than enough funny moments to keep a fan of the first two films mildly entertained, and most of the supporting actors, including the returning ones, are enjoyable and had even more potential. Some skits (that word fits here better than "scenes"), like the crazy house and the fiasco at Donna's apartment, and even the "Save the Whales" song, are as good as most of the material in the first two films. But overall, it just seems like their hearts, and maybe their heads, weren't as much into making a film time around.
2 funny guys in a very strange film!.......2006-02-20
This was a very weird film with lizard people and pot smoking cops. Bits are funny, but the weirdness definately permeates through most of the film, especially a sequence near the end where Cheech & Chong are being held in a padded cell. trippy stuff, which kept me interested, but not as funny as I had hoped. Up in Smoke still remains my favorite in the Cheech & Chong series.
Good Times Watchin Nice Dreams!!.......2005-10-17
Great Flick to kick back and toke a big fatty to, gotta love this one! But wtf is up w/PeeWee Herman's "Hamburger Dude" character??? They must have been on acid when they thought that up...Speaking of acid, Dr. Timothy Leary makes a cameo which is totally awesome! yeah, rock on Cheech & Tommy!
Prolly my Favt Cheech and Chong movie........2005-07-03
I liked this movie alot and I have seen it about 20 times. It is just laid back and does not take a lot to follow it.
From the point where they sell there weed out of there old Ice Cream truck and are followed by cops and Sgt Stedanko who a couple years earlier was a serious cop and now makes bust to get the weed.Then they get some weed from Jimmy's house. Then they find out they made 17 million from the deals and celebrate and by goibg out to eat. There is a lady who things chong is Jerry Garcia. Then a Ex girlfriend of Cheech is there with Hamberger dude(Pee Wee Herman)and they do coke. After this She along with Cheech and Chong go back to the hotel for a 3 way.
Then her Husband a convict that escaped comes to beat up and Cheech escapes naked and goes up and down a elevator shaft.When they finally get out Cheech finds out Chong gave Hamberger dude all the money and they look for him at Casa Del Wacko's.
I sell sea shells.......2005-06-14
I'd never seen this one before, been hanging out to tho. It's fianlly been released in Australia and it comes with absolutly nothing but the movie: not even a trailer!
The movie is typical Cheech & Chong stoner humor. They go from selling drugs to trying to get there money back they made from it, but I got the impression that Nice Dreams would mean they where gonnah be doing a bunch of sketches in there dreams as they laid passed out stoned, but it turned out to be the name of there Ice Cream truck they use to deliver the dope in.
The humor is ok, ut's not the best of the C&C series, but it's OK in my book. Tho, if -Columbian-Tri-Hards are going to release DVD's with nothing else on them, then why not put 2 or 3 movies on one disc and make it a double feature? This one would have been good with there other columbian release "Things Are Tough All Over". And Universal should put "Get Out of my room" on the "Next Movie" DVD as a bonus feature.
These movies companys just ignore the Cheech & Chong franshicse, it's a shame they give no attention to these yet pack a useless movie like Leagelly Blonde into a 2 disc special edition, not to mention it's the first edition released.. then when it flops, make a sequel.
Man, I hope C&C get back together to make a new Cheech & Chong movie, we need more comedys like these that you actualy wanna go and see.
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