Chicks

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Movie
German title Chicks - totally stoned and crazy about girls
Original title The Stoned Age
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 original rating FSK 16 re-rating
Rod
Director James Melkonian
script James Melkonian
Rich Wilkes
production Neal Moritz
David Heyman
camera Paul Holahan
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Chicks is an American film directed by James Melkonian from 1994. The film is one of a series of stoner films known in the United States as the Stoner Movie . As other films of this type z. B. Confusion - Summer of the Freaky , Cheech and Chong or Half Baked viewed.

action

The film is about the two losers Joe and Hubbs who spend their evenings in Los Angeles driving around in an old blue Volkswagen, drinking liquor and smoking weed, trying to pick up women (English chicks ).

Tack, a poor beer-drinking guy, tells them about a bunch of girls he saw on Torrance Beach, across from the old Frankie Avalon house. As she found out a little later from her friend Crumb, his brother and well-known thug, had already ripped the girls up. In the course of the film, Joe and Hubbs manage to win over the two girls Jill and Lanie. In doing so, they have to overcome a lot of imponderables. So they have to z. B. get eighty percent rum, protect the girls from the repeatedly appearing tack or avoid constant police confrontations.

music

The film is set in the late 1970s and features a ton of classic rock hits. Black Sabbath's Paranoid was chosen as a suitable introductory theme song . The rock group Blue Öyster Cult (BOC) is also referred to again and again . However, a CD with all the titles as film music was not released.


Trivia

  • For a long time the film was only available on VHS (VMP Entertainment) on the German market. A German DVD was only released in 2008. This has the subtitle Total stoned, which differs from the VHS version .
  • Lanie is always compared in the film to the girl from the Virgin Killer album. This is a reference to the album of the same name by the German rock group Scorpions .
  • The beer brand Ox 45 is presented again and again, whether on T-shirts, directly as a can of beer or as a bull's head on the wall. It is an allusion to the Colt 45 brand, which is popular in America, but whose label was not allowed to be shown in the film.
  • Frankie Avalon makes a guest appearance at the end and plays himself in a situation in which he is looking for the old Frankie Avalon house at the end of the film.
  • Joe keeps reporting about a concert by the American rock group Blue Öyster Cult, where he was hit by a laser. At the end of the film in the credits, Eric Bloom and Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser from the BOC group appear and want to sell Joe an original Godzilla T-shirt for five dollars.
  • The producer David Heyman is also the producer of Harry Potter.
  • Jake Busey , son of the American actor Gary Busey , who is known in Germany , has a supporting role as Muldoon.
  • According to the intro, the film is set in the fictional country of Suburbia .

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