Engineer Yesca Waddy Wachtel - Guitar Danny Kortchmar - Guitar Jai Winding - Keyboards Stanley Sheldon - Bass Rick Marotta - Drums "Up in Smoke 2018" Bass – Cisco Adler Engineer, Mixed By, Mastered By – Johannes Raassina Guitar – Duane Betts, Jeramy "Bearbo" Gritter Piano, Organ, Drums – Cody Dickerson Producer – Cisco Adler, Lou Adler Reception On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 47% based on reviews from 19 critics. The site's consensus reads, "Oft-quoted but undeniably flawed, Up In Smoke is a seminal piece of stoner cinema thanks to the likability of its two counterculture icons." On Metacritic it has a score of 57% based on reviews from 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a genially slapdash, sometimes winning live-action cartoon" with "several genuinely funny moments." Variety wrote that the film "gets off to a great start" but "once the more obvious drug jokes are exhausted, Adler lets the film degenerate into a mixture of fitful slapstick and toilet humor." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film half of one star out of four, calling it "one of the most juvenile, poorly written, awkwardly directed pictures I have ever seen. And my guess is that even if you saw it in a pleasantly altered state whether from grass, a banana daiquiri, Frango mint milkshake, or a Weight Watchers' Veal Parmigiana frozen dinner, 'Up in Smoke' would still be a real downer, man." He later put it on his year-end unranked list of the worst films of 1978. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Cheech & Chong were "a likable, funky duo, but the script they've come up with for their film debut is severely underwritten." He also found it "hard to watch the effects of gulping Quaaludes and the like being treated as something hilarious—especially when one realizes that the kids for whom the film was so clearly intended are probably going to love it." Pauline Kael of The New Yorker compared the film favorably to The Groove Tube, writing that Up in Smoke was "also crudely done but is more consistently funny." She added that "Cheech and Chong are so gracefully dumb-assed that if you're in a relaxed mood you can't help laughing at them." Art Harris of The Washington Post wrote that the film "may give