Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie

Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie is a 2013 American stoner comedy-adult animated film by Branden Chambers and Eric D. Chambers. It stars comedy duo Cheech and Chong in their first feature film since 1984's The Corsican Brothers, and the first to feature them as animated characters. The film features several of their original comedy bits, such as "Sister Mary Elephant", "Sgt. Stedanko", "Ralph and Herbie", "Let's Make a Dope Deal", "Earache My Eye", and the classic "Dave". It was released on March 18, 2013 by 20th Century Fox and was released on DVD/Blu-ray on April 23, 2013.

Plot
You're not hallucinating... It's legendary toker jokers Cheech & Chong as you've never seen them before - in their very first animated movie.

Why It's Not Hallucinating

 * 1) The film is basically nothing more than just sketches and albums/songs that Cheech and Chong created in the 1970s and being remade through animation.
 * 2) Cheap-looking flash animation that looks more like a direct-to-video feature than a theatrical feature, even for 2013 standards.
 * 3) While the film does supply some decent humor, it isn't as funny as it was back then. It's basically a poor imitation of early Saturday Night Live sketches as well as Monty Python but with Cheech and Chong doing the classics, such as "Sister Mary Elephant", "Sgt. Stedanko", "Ralph and Herbie", "Let's Make a Dope Deal", "Earache My Eye", and the classic "Dave", and yet with the stiff animation, the comedy is off.
 * 4) A lot of jokes that are really stale.
 * 5) *In the sketch where Cheech and Chong are dogs, Chong takes a crap and makes a statue of The Thinker out of it, and it falls.
 * 6) *In the opening intro, it shows lice living in a woman's public hair.
 * 7) *In another scene, Chong comes across a guy getting a BJ from his girlfriend in a car.
 * 8) The plot is really weak. It's just Cheech and Chong aimlessly cruising the streets in their car and being higher than a kite. At least the first few films had a plot and had no sketches that wasted time. They just told a straight forward story with actual conflict, which none of this film has.
 * 9) There's a body crab named Buster, who literally serves nothing in the film but being a desperate bug trying to get high from Chong's weed scented head.
 * 10) The timing and the wit is all off and it really shows how desperate these two were when they could have done an animated film years ago, when animation did not resort to cheaply made flash.
 * 11) The film is also boring and it doesn't really offer a lot, even for Cheech and Chong fans.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It's nice to see Cheech and Chong again after so many years.
 * 2) The idea of making Cheech and Chong animated is a decent idea, but was sadly wasted in this film.
 * 3) As mentioned in WIS#3, the film does supply some decent humour.

Reception
Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie received generally negative reviews. High Def Digest wrote that "The filmmakers' attempts to connect the sketches are so thin and poorly conceived that I'm a little confused as to why they bothered at all" and "The visual embellishments rarely add much to the humor [...] these additions actually end up diminishing a lot of the legitimate comedy found in the duo's vocal performances [and] the movie only proves how much more effective these sketches are when the audience is only focused on the audio, letting their own imaginations fill in the blanks themselves." Merry Jane advised viewers, "Don't puff, just pass."