filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
6 |
Structurally, the film doesn't have a leg to stand on. It jumps, with glee, from the counter-culture that embraced marijuana to Chong's home life to the creation of Cheech & Chong to the current administration's Operation Pipe Dreams. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
6 |
...a one-sided documentary... |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
6 |
...its dramatic thinness doesn't dilute its simultaneously ridiculous and terrifying portrait of federal prosecution run amok... |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
7 |
...a slender, revealing documentary... |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
6 |
...tells the depressing, often ridiculous and generally enraging story of how and why Mr. Chong, an extremely laid-back and genial camera presence, ended up doing time in the minimum-security Taft Correctional Institution in Taft, Calif. |
Village Voice
Rob Nelson |
6 |
Following Chong to the clink by way of a few well-timed stand-up gigs, this genial doc sprinkles Reagan and Nixon soundbites over its vintage stash of C&C clips for a suitably fuzzy squint at America from '69 to the buzzkill present. |
Onion AV Club
Nathan Rabin |
6 |
There is perhaps a great documentary to be made about Chong's strange evolution from stoner superstar to politically radicalized ex-convict, but Josh Gilbert's engaging but ultimately unsatisfying A/K/A Tommy Chong isn't it. |
Premiere
Ethan Alter |
6 |
...does provide another example of the current administration's incompetence. Who else would bother spending $12 million to capture Tommy Chong? |
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