Nice Dreams

Plot synopsis:
Cheech and Chong have set up a new business- selling ice cream from a large, odd-looking ice cream truck! However, this isn't regular ice cream- it's actually scientifically-experimented marijuana, sold in the form of ice cream. They've dubbed their business "Happy Herb's Nice Dreams Ice Cream".
Day by day, the 2 drive their ice cream truck around to the beach, to the gym, to other places, selling the marijuana ice cream. Soon, all their business starts paying off as the 2 make millions of dollars. However, they've unwittingly sold some marijuana ice cream to undercover cops, planning to bust them from the start.The cops, led by Sgt. Stadenko (Stacy Keach reprising his role from "Up in Smoke"), who has become a stoner and alcoholic, have the marijuana tested in their labs, and it turns out that the marijuana has some odd side-effect, those who smoke it turn into a lizard! Sgt. Stadenko sends 2 incompetent cops out to catch Cheech and Chong, while he in turn smokes some of the marijuana himself- and slowly turns into a lizard himself.After visiting a gym and selling marijuana ice cream to guys working out, Cheech and Chong drive their truck back to their home on a California cliff overlooking a beach. Cheech totals up the money, to discover they've made up to $20 million! The stoners dream of all they can buy with the money- their own private island, guitars, cars, their own resort, and of course, get a lot of women! The 2 head to their house and meet up with their roommate.Cheech and Chong go to the lab where their friend makes and experiments on the marijuana. His lab, under a fake pool, is full of marijuana and dope. As Cheech bargains with the experimenter to get more marijuana to sell, Chong uses a trash can to steal a whole load of the stuff. Meanwhile, cops have tracked Cheech and Chong to the house and begun circling it overhead from helecopters. The cops, however, become side-tracked by naked girls on the beach. Discovering they're being busted, Cheech and Chong load all the marijuana they can into their ice cream truck (while stopping to smoke a bit) and escape, leaving for the cops to bust their roommate and the guy experimenting on the marijuana. The marijuana factory is then taken apart and destroyed. They're taken to the police office and meet Stadenko, who's slowly turning into a lizard. The 2 incompetent cops ask the Sgt. what to do now; the stoner chief now mumbles different words, leading the cops to think they're looking for "Mr. Big." The cops then set off to find Cheech and Chong and finally bust them.It's nightfall and Cheech and Chong have parked outside a Chinese food restaurant and begun to dine inside. While inside, a crazy lady who thinks she knows Chong comes over to him and tells him about making a record, while actually stealing his plate and food. At that point, Cheech's old high school girlfriend Donna shows up with a friend, Howie Hamburger Dude (played by Pee-wee Herman), who is a mental patient. The 4 sit down together and Howie takes out some cocaine, and the 4 go under the table and snort it.
Coming out from unde the table, Cheech and Donna go to Donna's car to have sex, leaving Chong to talk to Howie Hamburger Dude. Cheech and Donna begin to have sex in the car when Donna faints, leaving Cheech stuck. Cheech realizes he can't do it with her sleeping (and even asks the audience what they would do), when a cop car pulls up. Cheech fears he'll be in trouble, when suddenly, a coked-up Chong drives up in the ice cream truck- stocked up with marijuana!The cops, not wanting to arrest Cheech and Chong and have to fill out the paperwork and reports, let them go, despite Chong telling them that they're wrong. Having to leave their truck behind, Cheech and Chong have neither the marijuana plant, nor their truck with marijuana to sell, leaving them out of a job. At least they have their money, right?Cheech, Chong, and Donna go to Donna's apartment to have a threesome. In her room the stoners try to nail her all at once, when Chong goes to get some ice. Cheech begins to make out with her when Donna gets a call- her ex-con biker boyfriend, Animal, known to hate Mexicans, has just broke out of prison and is in the lobby of the apartment, coming up. Cheech worries, and when a loud knock is heard on the door, he hides on the balcony and gets locked out.When Cheech sees it's just Chong coming back, he tries to get back in, when he discovers the door is locked, and he's outside on top of a hotel, naked. Cheech tries to scale off the hotel by walking on the balconies, then getting stuck on top of the elevator, going up and down. Meanwhile, Animal has broken the door down into the apartment, and Chong is hiding around the apartment. Animal grabs Donna and has sex with her on top of the bed, where Chong is hiding underneath. Animal and Donna pass out on the bed, and Chong dresses back up. Cheech, meanwhile, has jumped off the elevator into the pool, got a towel, and returned to the room. Chong tells Cheech of Animal in the room, and the 2 get dressed back up and leave.As they go down in the elevator, Cheech asks Chong where the money is- Chong tells Cheech that he cashed in the money with Howie Hamburger Dude for a check! Unfortunately, Chong is illiterate and has no drivers liscence or ID- now he can't cash the check, and the stoners are broke again! $20 million, gone! Cheech, however, is not letting Howie Hamburger Dude walk away with all their money, so he looks up the address on the check, and he and Chong get a ride. However, they're actually getting a ride from the 2 incompetent cops that are looking for them in the first place.Knowing who they are, and waiting for the perfect busting moment, the cops wait outside the address waiting for Cheech and Chong. The 2 stoners climb the gates of the residence- Casa Del Whacko, which is a mental asylum. Sleeping in one of the rooms overnight, the 2 are awoken by multiple mental patients and crazy people. Cheech and Chong try to escape the mental people and find Howie Hamburger Dude, who is running around. Cheech corners Howie, telling him to give back the money. Cheech doesnt understand what Howie says and starts fighting with him, pushing him, when doctors show up, and grab Cheech.Believed to be mentally unstable and dangerous, Cheech is chained in a straight-jacket and locked up in a soft-padded room. Cheech screams and yells to be let free, but is ignored. Meanwhile, Chong is believed to be a doctor and finds Cheech in the soft-padded room. Cheech tells Chong to go find the key, and Chong goes off. Later, Chong returns to the room with a real doctor (played by Timothy Leary), and Cheech begs him to be set free. The doctor tells Cheech he'll give him "the key", and gives both Cheech and Chong "the key to the universe", actually medicated pills.Cheech and Chong swallow the pills and fantasize and get high off the pills. As they fantasize and have weird hallucinations about being hung and killed, the 2 stoners are awoken by the manager, Mrs. Del Whacko. She's realized the mistake and unlocks Cheech and gives them back their bag full of money, apologizing for the incident. She makes Howie apologize and takes him away to get a lobotomy.The 2 stoners rejoice in the room that they've gotten their money back, when a siren sounds- the cops are outside, waiting for Cheech and Chong to bust them. The 2 escape out through a tunnel in the asylum, and the cops arrest Howie and Mrs. Del Whacko by mistake, thinking Howie to be "Mr. Big."A while later, the stoner buddies have managed to lose their money yet again in an unknown way, and now have no job, no marijuana to sell, and they're broke. Cheech and Chong are now forced "to go to work" to make some money, being that Chong has lost all their money. The 2 take off their shirts and strip their pants to their underwear, and go on to a strip club stage, dancing as the male strippers in an all-male strip-club, which is their only way to get money. With the stoners now living a poor job and having an unfortunate job, the movie ends.

Tags: absurd, humor, adult comedy

Review:
Cheech and Chong's third film: Nice Dreams..
Watch NICE DREAMS and you'll find out!!Another funny film from the team of Cheech and Chong.
Just a funny movie that stars everyone's favorite stoners.Recommended..
Cheech and Chong's first movie, Up in Smoke (1978), was the most successful and it set the scene for the five other films which were to follow.
Nice Dreams is a very good film for laid-back old hippies like me who enjoy romanticising the 70s.
Gone are the flower-power days of the 60s and life seems to have degenerated into sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll, and this movie has its fair share of each.My favourite scene is at the Chinese restaurant where Chong is mistaken for Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.
One of my favourite supporting roles is the police sergeant who has the tongue of a lizard and believes "the only way to catch a doper is for you yourself to become a smoker." The quirky soundtrack and slapstick comedy helps to keep the movie moving along nicely...Even though Cheech and Chong sold millions of records in the 70s and had a major success with Up in Smoke, I would not call Nice Dreams a mainstream movie.
I found Cheech and Chong's "Nice Dreams" a well crafted piece work.
Not only are Cheech and Chong's performances very strong, they are also backed by a strong supporting cast, including Paul Rubens and Stacy Keech.
This is probably Cheech and Chong's best movie.
My daughters often ask me (well maybe not often, but once in a while) which one I think is funnier: Cheech or Chong?
I thought this Cheech and Chong vehicle made for a nice movie..
I do not understand why this Cheech and Chong movie has a rather low score here at IMDb. I thought this was by far the funniest movie I have seen the duo in.
So Cheech and Chong get some money from some of their stash and end up having to go to a hotel where a jealous crazed boyfriend is headed their way and then they somehow manage getting locked up in a mental asylum.
I also liked how this movie went by fast with a good assortment of crazy locales for Cheech and Chong to have their adventures.
With so many people here in the US hell bent on legalizing recreational marijuana, and some states actually doing so, where does that leave the decades of stoner humor we've had in so many films?
But first, I implore you to sit back and watch this fitfully funny Cheech and Chong effort in which the duo sell their high-quality weed from an ice cream truck, evade the cops, chase scantily clad women, make a fortune, get locked in a mental institution, lose the fortune, somehow get it back, and then apparently lose it once again.
With Chong at the helm, instead of Lou Adler from Up In Smoke, this film meanders more than it should, but still contains plenty of laughs.
Think back to all of the films and characters in movie history that have used marijuana to define themselves as counter-culture.
Paul Reubens (this is Pee Wee's 2nd appearance in a C&C movie) and Timothy "I have the key right here" Leary are amongst the famous cameos.
The funniest of these has to be the scene at the Honk Kong restaurant where the guys meet Cindy the Agent (Chong is mistaken for Jerry Garcia), followed by Cheech's Quaalude reunion with his high school sweetheart Donna (who was going to be a nun) and her date, the Hamburger Dude (a.k.a, Paul Reubens), bearing Koka-Kola (original version).
The other funny scene is Cheech's death-row trip, complete with Michael Winslow (a.k.a Larvell Jones, who also makes his second appearance in a C&C movie).
Cheech and Chong run an ice cream business called Nice Dreams, which actually is a cover for them to sell their special blend of dope.
All of this leads to many unplanned confrontations and actions that don't always workout for the best.The third film of the series is a really spaced-out stoner comedy (even more so then the first two flicks) from the comical duo Cheech and Chong.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first two outings, sure nothing will beat the memorable "Up In Smoke", but I thought they slightly out did themselves here compared to their previous outing "Next Movie" and that could be attributed to Stacy Keach returning as Sarge Stedanko too.
Though, I wish there was a bit more screen time for Keach.Everything about this one seems more silly and absurd, especially the scenes involving how anyone, or anything that smokes their strong weed will turn into a lizard.
Something is always happening with Cheech and Chong getting in all sorts of mayhem and also meeting buoyant and irregular characters along the way.
This is the third Cheech and Chong film, coming after Up in Smoke (1978) and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980).
The films are a series in the traditional way--characters continue, and there is something of a linear development per the films' chronologies of the characters, but as with the plot of this film in isolation, the threads holding it all together are pretty thin.In Nice Dreams, Cheech and Chong are selling dope from a barely disguised ice cream truck.
At any rate, they do not seem to be hurting for money--they have a bag of it, after all, which they have to pursue later in the film--and somehow, they're living in a very expensive, big house on the beach outside of Los Angeles, although it seems that maybe they're just crashing at a friend of a friend's place while he's away (he's a musician on tour).A lot of it is pretty unclear, because the last thing that Cheech and Chong as writers and director (only Chong in the latter case) are concerned with is telling anything like a traditional story.
But maybe Cheech and Chong were just looking for the easiest way to string together a number of sketch ideas, and not enough sketch ideas, because some of them are drawn out or reprised past their freshness date.
And that probably goes for the whole premise of Cheech and the Man (Chong) selling dope and getting into wacky situations while being pursued by Sgt. Stedanko (Stacy Keach).
Nice Dreams feels too much like Cheech and Chong are just coasting--vamping while waiting for the next soloist to start.
I don't always think that something different is better just because it's different.So this is definitely a step down from the first two films, although there are more than enough funny moments to keep a fan of the first two films mildly entertained, and most of the supporting actors, including the returning ones, are enjoyable and had even more potential.
Some skits (that word fits here better than "scenes"), like the crazy house and the fiasco at Donna's apartment, and even the "Save the Whales" song, are as good as most of the material in the first two films.
But overall, it just seems like their hearts, and maybe their heads, weren't as much into making a film this time around..
This movie has some great scenes, the scene's with Pee Wee and Timothy Leary.
I've liked this movie since the first time I saw it 10 years ago.
Everyone I know loves Cheech and Chong.
I love the team of Cheech and Chong, but god, is Nice Dreams just a plain bad oregano misfire.
It begins, then it introduces absurd plot points (like the boys living in a PALACE on the beaches of California), Stacey Keach in a pointless police role who slowly morphs into a lizard due to smoking the unexplained tainted weed they are peddling in their frightening nightmare of an ice cream truck.
Following on from Up In Smoke and Next Movie, Nice Dreams in retrospect sort of represents a crossroads for the stoner duo.
Given that the next film to feature the Mexican stoners was Things Are Tough All Over, this can be described as the last genuinely funny Cheech and Chong film.
Next Movie and Up In Smoke were also basically a couple of funny skits with a lot of ordinary film linking them together, but Nice Dreams shows these occasional skits getting progressively less amusing.The conceit of Nice Dreams is simple.
Cheech and Chong play a pair of stoners who run a beachside marijuana plantation.
If you have seen Up In Smoke, then you have no reason to watch any part of this film that Keach appears in.
Fans of the stoner duo may in fact see more of Cheech than they had wished during this part of the film.
There is also a mildly amusing Jimi Hendrix skit for those who did not get enough of this schtick in Police Academy 6.Ultimately, the big problem with this, or any other Cheech and Chong film save Up In Smoke, is a lack of plot cohesion.
Perhaps if Cheech and Chong teamed up with some genuinely talented comic writers like Simon Pegg, they could come up with something that involves laughter from beginning to finish.
If you have already seen Up In Smoke and Next Movie, this is a good place to continue testing how long it takes you to get tired of the Cheech and Chong routine.
However, this film really hits rock bottom thanks to the scenes involving Stacy Keach and Paul Reubens...they drag it down to a pathetic level that is not often seen in the movies.
Unfortunately, the blame for this should go right back to Cheech and Chong, for even though their characters aren't quite as annoying as Keach or Reubens, they were the ones who wrote this mess..
If you've seen other Cheech & Chong movies, then you can probably figure out what sorts of things happen in "Nice Dreams".
I nearly died laughing during the sequence in the apartment building.No, it's not the best C&C movie, but there's definitely no shortage of laughs in "Nice Dreams".
Only one scene worth anything in this movie and that is Cheech and Chong in the Insane Asylum getting heavily medicated by Dr. Timothy Leary the Counter Culture Guru who inspired hippies in the 1960s to "Tune in, Turn on, and Drop out) The rest of the story is as thin as ice during spring season warm up..
a great `hit` if you like Cheech & Chong..
The only talented actors in the movie is the Chief of the narcotics (played by the father on the tv series TITUS) and Cheech & Chong.It really is too bad they used the whole reptile idea in the movie , it sure could have been much more of a movie (and of course, take out theatre tugging Rubens).If your looking for a rating, I would have to say a 4/10 for this one.
Mediocre Cheech and Chong film.
"Nice Dreams" is the third Cheech and Chong film and it has the same formula as their other films:1.
I happen to like Cheech and Chong, but this film is uninspired.
Paul Reubens--who can be hilarious--even comes across as boring in this film.The film also contains some insensitive moments, for example the comedy that centers on cocaine use and the scene about the woman who falls asleep just before having sex with Cheech..
You can judge me negatively, for liking "Nice Dreams" if you want, but comedy (in all forms) is needed on this Earth right now!
This is the only Cheech & Chong comedy I've seen so far, so I can't judge it against their other works, but if you took out the drug references and the brief nudity and replaced them with a few fight scenes, I'd put it on the level of a lesser Bud Spencer & Terence Hill comedy (like for example "All The Way, Boys!"): amiable enough, but one laugh per half an hour is not exactly a good enough average to justify a rental, is it?
Stacy Keach pretty much lowered his standards to appear in this movie and yet he was perfect for the role of the drug unit commander.
There were some classic scenes: Cheech lying on a ladder acting like he was swimming; a drug interdiction helicopter hovering a nude beach; a tortilla starting a fire right in front of an unsuspecting blind musician friend.
Most of the movie is more stupid than funny, but at the time they were hilarious.
The best scenes in the movie involve a restaurant haunted by "night" people.
Cheech and Chong come back with another episode of hilarious pot comedy, this time they are marijuana sellers dealing their product out of the back of their "ice cream truck" that they drive around.
This is a very funny and entertaining film and I don't know why it got such a low user-rating.
Nice Dreams...Great Movie.
"Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams" This Movie Is Awesome.
This is the best Cheech & Chong film created out of their entire filming careers......This is one movie that if you are cooking, talking to guests, or not paying attention to fully it is easy to get lost.
This is not like the other Cheech & Chong films where if you did get lost watching that you can pick it back up from another scene.
That is what is different about "Nice Dreams" it actually has a very good storyline, a great cast, and the best scenerios C&C ever created.
If you don't have a sense of humor like that guy that reviewed this above, I suggest you go watch "Heidi" for the 20th time & get real nice and bored.
The movie is so funny that if you watch carefully you'll catch the cast laughing, cause the writing is hilarious.
His role is a crazed money stealing wacko from the funny farm & if he don't blow your mind, then you'll surely get a great kick out of "Stacey Keach" as the pot smoking sgt of the narc squad along with his goofy two detectives that foul up each bust that they might have had.
Rarely does a movie capture a true friendship like that of Cheech and Chong.
Cheech and Chong remind me of my friends and I when I was a kid and the stuff me used to get into.
Honestly, I would have to say that Nice Dreams is a tie with Up in Smoke as the best Cheech and Chong movie..
Cheech and Chong and Pee Wee. I thought this film was far out, man.
More high times from Cheech and Chong.
"Nice Dreams" has Cheech and Chong cruising around selling their unique 'ice cream'.
Realizing they have made a ton of money, they go about trying to figure out what to do with their newfound wealth.Along the way they encounter a crazy music agent who thinks Chong is Jerry Garcia, a coked-out Pee Wee Herman, Cheech's ex-love interest Donna and her old man Animal, who just happens to hate Mexicans.On par "Cheech And Chongs Next Movie", "Nice Dreams" has some genuinely funny moments, such as Cheech getting stuck on top of the glass elevator naked, and when Cheech is locked away in the nut house.
(Timothy Leary has a cameo as a drug-dispensing doctor.) Wasted in this film was Stacy Keach as Sgt. Stedanko.
But I digress, "Nice Dreams" explores the fundamentals of counterculture, as it is plotted very tightly as the previous installments "Up In Smoke", but not as continual as "Still Smokin" and "Next Movie".
"Nice Dreams" has a familiar story that is like a trend in the Cheech and Chong franchise.
Along their journey, they confront bizarre situations and people which include a pot-smoking Pee-Wee Herman, Sandra Bernhard and Dr. Timothy Leary.Not every gag is delivered coherently.
i also loved that scene when animal went to the hotel to beat up cheech and chong.
The third Cheech and Chong movie.
To me it was obvious that these guys had only a limited script when filming this movie.
It was almost like these guys said, "We'll do a scene with two hot girls in a car and a 600 pound dad, and it will be funny." "We'll go to a pot farm where the owner is wonderfully bizarre and it will be funny." "We'll film two helicopters over nude sunbathers, and it will be funny." One reviewer said he thought that the main characters were high when they made this movie.
The trap is, we've made people laugh in the past, everything we do is funny, so we don't need to work.Strangely enough, the best scene in the movie is when they break into the insane asylum and wake up with the crazy inmates in their faces.
The people in the asylum genuinely freak both Cheech and Chong out.
These guys were millionaires when they filmed the movie.
It was like OK - we got the money back, but we're Stoners so we lose it and now we'll be male strippers and that will be funny?
Cheech and Chong can be funny.
But not with "Nice Dreams." The duo drive around town in an ice-cream truck, but frozen treats are not the product that's for sale.
This scenario does lead to some amusing moments, but other than this, the only other part that has some laughs is when Cheech and Chong go to the gym.
Some of the scenes are real classics, like the "chicken guy" in the nuthouse, Cheech's inability to scratch, Jimmy's reaction to the light bulb in the police station, and others.I enjoyed both this one and "Next Movie" but have to say this is the better of the two in my opinion.
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***Nice Dreams a follow-up to the very entertaining and funny pothead movie Up in smoke.
Cheech & Chong are still hilarious in some scenes, even though they can become somewhat annoying at times.