Synopsis
Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs - Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib. Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throughout the car.
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Cast
- Cheech Marinhimself
- Tommy Chonghimself
- Toni AttellCocktail Waitress
- Mike BacarellaCop in Laundromat
- Billy BeckPop
- Don BovinglohMaitre D'
- Richard 'Moon' CalhounDrummer
- Jennifer CondosBass Player
- John CorronaSt. Louis Biker
- Dave CoulierMan with Tongue in Restaurant
- 80
The New York Times
Cheech and Chong have a good time with Things Are Tough All Over, and you will, too. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
The jokes tossed into this feeble effort involve Cheech and Chong in drag, herpes, and an S&M porno adventure featuring the comedians' real-life spouses Shelby Fiddis and Rikki Marin. - 40
Washington Post
Even the premise for this sputtering attempt at a picaresque farce seems to anticipate a vehicle prone to misfires and breakdowns. [12 Aug 1982, p.E1] - 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
With Things Are Tough All Over their once well-oiled comedy has rusted firmly into place. Now, the erstwhile darlings of the counter-culture seem about as raucously rebellious as a senescent Lucy Ricardo. [2 Aug 1982] - 30
Newsweek
It's a shaggy-dog road movie, with all the team's usual ingredients but one -- it's not funny. There's no fresh insight in Things Are Tough All Over, little of their surrealist pothead non sequiturs, and to see them through, they've begun to fall back on tired, conventional sight gags -- a car going through a carwash with its top down, Cheech hiding in a spinning laundermat dryer. [6 Sept 1982, p.75] - 0
Miami Herald
The climax of Things Are Tough All Over finds Cheech and Chong slouched in a seedy theater, watching themselves perform in a pornographic film with Rikki Marin and Shelby Fiddis, their real-life wives. Yuccchhh to you, too, fellas. [9 Aug 1982, p.3]