hear Red laughing and asking, "ya get it?" Home media A novelization was released in 1980. The film was released on Blu-ray in 2017, containing the theatrical cut, trailer, radio spots and an interview with Cheech Marin. It did not include the television cut of the film or any deleted scenes. Critical reception Roger Ebert's review was negative, writing: "This movie is embarrassing. There's no invention in it, no imagination, no new comic vision, no ideas about what might be really funny -- instead of just dope-funny, something to laugh at if you're in the bag anyway." Gene Siskel gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that it was "much better" than Up in Smoke, "which isn't saying that much. It's just that its jokes come a little quicker and a few of them are funny even to the chemically unaltered viewer." Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the film was "casual, slapdash and rude, and it's frequently hilarious in the way of some intense but harmless confrontation between eccentrics on a street corner." Variety called the film "a laborious disappointment in which the freshness has vanished and the laughs come few and far between." References External links 1980 films American comedy films 1980 comedy films Cheech & Chong (film series) Pee-wee Herman Universal Pictures films Films about drugs Films about music and musicians Films about smoking Films set in Los Angeles Films directed by Tommy Chong 1980s English-language films 1980s American films