Vincent Canby of
The New York Times wrote, "With
Still Smokin, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are scraping the bottom of the barrel and finding only bits and pieces of the characters and comedy routines that were so successful in their earlier films."
Variety panned the film as an "amateurish, incompetent excuse for filmmaking."
Gene Siskel of the
Chicago Tribune gave the film one star out of four, writing that it "barely qualifies as a movie," adding, "
Smokin indicates Cheech and Chong's disrespect for their own audience and makes some of their other miserable films look good by comparison." Richard Harrington of
The Washington Post wrote, "Richard 'Cheech' Marin and Thomas Chong are 'Still Smokin'—that's even the name of their latest film venture—but the daffy fires that often lit their four previous films are in danger of extinction. Or, to put it in terms they and their friends surely will understand, it's down to seeds and stems." Linda Gross of the
Los Angeles Times wrote, "This is the same old stuff. The humor, if you can call it such, is crass, crude, predictable, scatological, lascivious and lame."
Leonard Maltin's film guide gave it the lowest possible grade of BOMB and called it "Rock-bottom. Not even the most forgiving C & C fans can justify this nonmovie that climaxes a scant plot involving an Amsterdam film festival with twenty minutes of laughless concert footage." Nearly three decades after its release, the film remains "lazily offensive in its attempts to be funny," with a score of 3.2/10 on
Rotten Tomatoes, alongside a 10% rating based on ten reviews. ==References==