Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Tommy Chong

Writers:

Tommy Chong (writer)
Cheech Marin (writer)

Release Date:

27 July 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Travelling through Europe was never this much fun !

Plot:

Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution. |

Plot Keywords:

Spoof | Mistaken Identity | Sequel | Twins | Box Office Flop

US TV Schedule:

Tue. July 21

10:00 AM

COMEDY

Cast

Cheech Marin	...	Corsican Brother
Tommy Chong	...	Corsican Brother
Roy Dotrice	...	The Evil Fuckaire / Ye Old Jailer
Shelby Chong	...	Princess I (as Shelby Fiddis)
Rikki Marin	...	Princess II
Edie McClurg	...	The Queen
Robbi Chong	...	Princess III
Rae Dawn Chong	...	The Gypsy
Kay Dotrice	...	The midwife
Jennie C. Kos	...	The pregnant mother
Martin Pepper	...	Martin
Yvan Chiffre	...	Tax collector #1
Dan Schwartz	...	Tax collector #2
Jean-Claude Dreyfus	...	Marquis Du Hickey
Serge Fedoroff	...	Nostrodamus

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Australia:M | USA:PG (certificate #27161) | Finland:K-16 | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

France

Company:

Orion Pictures Corporation

Quotes:

Corsican Brother#1: Tickle your buns with a feather! Aheeee!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "De zomer draait door: (#2.15)" (2009)

Soundtrack:

LADY MARMALADE

Such an evil Fuckaire...

I first saw this film late one night upon happenstance. I normally consider anything 'Cheech & Chong' to be peurile and lowlife humor {which it is}, further denigrating the populace unto ghetto-trash culture, but this one final film seems to be the exception, and actually displays some potential for the comedic characters.

Born from two unsuspecting separate fathers, two brothers experience a sympathetic element since birth {one feels the tactile sensations of the other}, are raised in a peasant hovel in order to avoid scandal, eventually burn the house down in which they were raised by a matron, and set off in two opposing directions - one ends up back home in France, and the other... in Mexico, of all places.

After many years pass, they eventually meet again in France, which is being ruled by a tyrant by the name of "Fuckeire" {a pun on "f*cker"}, a sado-masochistic libertine with some really great aesthetic style, I must say, like a cross between King Diamond and King Louis XIV.

The Corsican Brothers join forces and form a revolution, stealthily infiltrating The Palace as aristocrats - one as a very Rasputin-like intellectual, and the other as a gay hairdresser from Spain, who wreaks havok on The Queen's hairdo.

Through a series of coincidences and mishaps, they luckily meet two lovely Princesses {one of whom laments Chong's "broken sword"}, do strenuous battle with Fuckeire's men, almost kill each other in a duel over the girls, are imprisoned, and eventually escape to spark the revolution again.

Despite the droll humor, I enjoyed the aesthetics of the film... the scenery, costumes, sets, actresses, and props. In My opinion, it is the only production of theirs worth watching.