Up in Smoke (1978)

 

Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.

From memory: At the time a hilarious cult stoner movie this comedy does start off with some genuinely funny moments, but very soon deteriorates into bad slapstick and crude humor.

Halliwell (no star): "Direly unamusing; the slapstick is badly timed and the humour infantile. Stoned or sober, Cheech & Chong are the least funny comedy team since The Three Stooges."

Maltin***: "This silly pothead comedy breaks down all resistance with its cheerful vignettes...Nothing great, but undeniably funny..." 

McLintock! (1963)

Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights his wife, his daughter, and political land-grabbers.

Another wildly entertaining John Wayne - Maureen O'Hara variation on The Taming of the Shrew. Not suitable for feminists.

On rewatching: Male-bonding festivity looks like they intended to have as much of fun as possible on set and imagined it would reflect onscreen - unfortunately it does.

Halliwell*: "Sub-Ford Western farce borrowed from The Taming of the Shrew, with much fist-fighting and mud-splattering, and rather too much chat in between."

Maltin***: "Rowdy slapstick seldom stops - a giant mud pit free-for-all and a public spanking for O'Hara are just a few of the stops along the way in this Western version of The Taming of the Shrew. Not recommended for feminists."

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

Highly entertaining Western takes a lighthearted, but not insincere view of outlaw life and gives its two leads lots of room to expand (and enjoy) on their buddyhood, while never losing pace of the tale, and offers some spectacular landscape cinematography; the soundtrack may have been popular, but is a bit incongruous to the goings-on.

Halliwell****: "Humorous, cheerful, poetic, cinematic account of two semi-legendary outlaws, winningly acted and directed. One of the decade's great commercial successes, not least because of the song 'Raindrops Keep Falin' on My Head'.'"

Maltin****: "Delightful seriocomic character study masquerading as a Western....Many memorable vignettes."

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

The Champ (1979)

A child is torn between his divorced parents--a loving mother and an alcoholic ex-boxing father.

I remember: despite having an interesting cast this movie is quite a sentimental and unexciting  custody drama.

Halliwell*: "A lush version, so little updated in mood that its tearfulness seems to have strayed from another age."

Maltin*1/2: "Voight is too intelligent to convince as a dumb pug, and Dunaway, as a loving mother, looks as if she wants to bed down with her kid in hopeless remake of the 1931 sudser. Young Schroder cires (and cries) convincingly."