Please don't spend money on this.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This is so sad and stale. They only thing new is the body lice. The animation was cheap and the bits were all old. They simply played bits off 40 year old records and added bad animation. Now if I had never listened to these bits until my 8-track wore out, I would certainly think they were funny. But when I know every word before they speak it...that simply makes it hard to enjoy.Parental Guide: No f-bombs. Some animated nudity and sex. Plenty of innuendos.

You have to be high to actually enjoy this one. Just saying.

This is basically some of Cheech and Chong's older stuff from their '70s albums made into an animated movie.Works for me.Maybe you have to be older to truly appreciate this movie. I remember back when these guys were something out of the ordinary. When radio stations would play some cuts from their albums every night a 11:00pm. I remember Sister Mary Elephant got played quite a bit, being a little tamer than some of their other routines.This during a time just after the period when comics could be arrested for being too raunchy on stage. Cheech and Chong straddled the line.So, sure, younger people might not think this movie worth it's salt, but for those of us who remember what it was like in those days, it's nice to see the routines in a movie, even if it is an animated movie.

These two young directors did an amazing job layering their routines under cartoons, which also lets them appeal to today's "much grosser, much more graphic" comedy sensibilities. Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie pairs classic routines like "Drive Inn" and "Sister Mary Elephant" with colorful cartoons — and yes, animated Marin again wears a belly shirt with confidence.Culled mostly from their first four albums on Lou Adler's Ode record label - Cheech & Chong, Big Bambu, Los Cocinos and The Wedding Album - Animated Movie is a hoot. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong voice all the characters, including Paco and Man, Herbie and Ralph (the dogs), Bob Bitchin, Laidback Lenny, Righton Washington, Sister Mary Elephant, Ashley Roachclip, Alice Bowie and Sgt. Stedanko. For those of a certain age and disposition, cannabis-comedy routines such as "Dave's Not Here" and the game-show parody "Let's Make a Dope Deal" will bring back fond memories--if they haven't gone up on smoke. I loved it!!!