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A lazy stoner (Seth Rogen) is the sole witness to a murder by an evil drug lord (Gary Cole) and a corrupt cop (Rosie Perez). Marked for death, he runs for his life, dragging his dazed dealer (James Fr...( read more  read more... )anco) and his supplier (Danny McBride) with him on a hilarious smokin' adventure.

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Directed by: David Gordon Green

Release Date: August 6, 2008

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  • magnum32004
    August 22, 2008
    magnum32004
    Despite a graphically violent climax, the film delivers a fun-filled & darkly funny action-comedy.
  • AgentLexi2132
    December 28, 2009
    AgentLexi2132
    [he examines the joint]

    ''It's almost a shame to smoke it. It's like killing a unicorn...with, like, a bomb.''

    A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

    Seth Rogen: Da...( read more)le Denton

    James Franco: Saul Silver

    Pineapple Express is one of the best Comedies I've seen in ages. I don't usually like American humour, due to it's nonsensical crass fashion but this surprised me in lots of ways.


    Happily Director David Gordon Green's Pineapple Express starts with an old fashioned flashback that sets the ball rolling. Pot being made illegal by the military. Then we see present day, Seth Rogen's Dale in his car smoking Weed savouring it's mindful influence, while doing a US job that everyone ends up hating you. Yes you have guessed it, ''You've been served'', THAT job.

    We also discover Dales High-School Girlfriend which adds another mark against Dale, in the sense of being in-politically correct. It gets better still, in the charismatic charged James Franco playing Saul, Dale's weed Dealer and seemingly a friendship is there although Dale likes to just think of him as merely a dealer.
    What Pineapple Express gives us throughout are non stop laughs, action and gore befitting of more black comedic belly roars. The plot is so daft it defies belief, as does the fight scenes that are so unrealistic you sometimes fail to notice due to the momentum of the film.

    What begins as a drug related film progresses into an action, chase laden, non-serious thriller infused with slapstick comedy. Pineapple Express blasts joke after joke on screen, a funny run about in a dark forest between the pair, a Police Car chase where Franco kicks his foot out a slush puppy drenched windscreen, and the young Girlfriends parents giving Dale a hard time.
    What's interesting about Pineapple Express is that it's story is predictable. You see scripts like this all the time but you get to a point where if you are having so much fun in the process you fail to care. Pineapple Express like it's weed inspired title is like a roller-coaster of unfortunate accidents in a drug induced state of madness.

    I mean characters can fight and fight, get shot repeatedly,then miraculously begin running about frantically like nothing is wrong. The third character Danny R. McBride as Red shows the nature of the film. That character's can sustain superhuman damage and not die yet the film is adult and action packed. Is it serious? Is it comedy? Or is it sometimes switching backwards and forwards between the two perhaps.

    The villains who commit the murder of an Asian Drug Rival, a certain Gary Cole as Ted Jones, the gangster boss guy and
    Rosie Perez as Carol, the crooked Cop. They to me were 2 dimensional characters who weren't really fleshed out due to the involvement round the main two, Franco & Rogen. Things do kick off in the final segment and we get some cracking unbelievable fight scenes.

    Pineapple Express is another film with Seth Rogen, whom I usually despise, but in this comical piece, I can say it's his best film I've seen yet, where he actually is funny with his hoarsely stupid voice and his mumbling accent.
    James Franco remains a talent that keeps getting better and better every role I see him do, Pineapple Express allows him to do some different material and show versatile he can be, in this case a funny, drugged up dealer, with a bit of a vacant dreamy disposition.
    So Pineapple Express to conclude has renewed my faith in the American comedy genre.
    A very good effort, now I've just got to catch Tropic Thunder which looks fairly certain to be having more desirable effects on the genre for me.
  • yona71
    November 17, 2009
    yona71
    Some movies are just too freakin' funny, and this is one of them. Well, at least in my opinion.
    Seth Rogen stars as a lazy stoner that has a job serving subpoenas, and a girlfriend that is still in high school. While smoking a joint in his car, he becomes the sole witness to a m...( read more)urder by a drug lord and a corrupt cop. His burned-out, pajama pant wearing dealer portrayed by James Franco is the only dealer with the supreme weed known as the "Pineapple Express". They both are pursued by the mob due to the witnessing of the murder which couldn't be more chaotic for the perpetually stoned duo.
    "Your grandchildren are going to be smoking this." lol
  • EarthlyAlien
    November 7, 2009
    EarthlyAlien
    [he examines the joint]
    Saul: "It's almost a shame to smoke it. It's like killing a unicorn... with, like, a bomb."

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    I was never a fan of stoner comedies. I mean, I like to smoke pot as much as the next guy, but I've always had a hard time getting into the humour those films usually offer. The only real pothead comedies that I truly enjoy are The Big Lebowski, Up in Smoke, and a large portion of the Harold & Kumar misadventures. Frankly I'm of the opinion that most pot comedies feel like they were written by someone very stoned, and let's just say that writers don't always do their best work when they're extra-baked. (They might THINK their stuff is hilarious, but usually it's not. That's just the weed talking.) You'll definitely find a few cannabis-caked giggles in trash like Half-Baked, Grandma's Boy, and Smiley Face - just not enough to sustain a whole film, if it's me you're asking.

    So it is with much pleasure, enthusiasm, and recently-applied Visine that I find myself completely in love with Pineapple Express, which just may be the Casablanca of stoner films. Or perhaps it's more like "When Ultra-High Harry Met Super-Stoned Sally," but either way Pineapple Express isn't just hilarious, it's pretty damn sharp and clever too. It has some of the funniest "weed culture" insights since Richard Linklater's fantastic Dazed & Confused - which I wouldn't call a full-bore pot comedy, but it sure isn't shy about passing those joints around. Best of all, while Pineapple Express will absolutely appeal to both the casual and committed pot-smokers, it's also just a very funny buddy comedy/action flick parody that comes bearing the very unique stamp of that unique director that is David Gordon Green.

    How ironic (and downright miraculous) is it that a filmmaker who has been making art (not just "movies") for almost a decade eventually ended up directing a guns & weed comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco? And if you think the guy's dry, low-key, and slyly sober style has been squashed by the Hollywood Movie Machine, then you're in for a big treat with this flick. Pineapple Express is certainly "accessible" in true multiplex fashion, but it also has several memorable touches of strange wit, unexpected character, and just plain old random weirdness - you can tell you're in the hands of a filmmaker who actually wants to deliver a big, odd concoction of a film.

    The plot is enjoyably simple: Two potheads find themselves on the run from a crooked cop and a violent drug lord after one of the stoners accidentally witnesses a murder. (The title refers to the world's most powerful marijuana, so intoxicating that apparently it smells like "god's vagina.") So while early word on Pineapple Express has called it a partial homage to the buddy action comedies of the 1980s, what I saw in this film comes from a decidedly late-'70s format. Imagine if Richard Rush or Don Siegel had directed the first Cheech & Chong film, and that's what Pineapple Express feels like to me. And that feels good.

    "A dude, a lady, and a cop? That's like a massacre, man!"

    We all know Seth Rogen's a very funny guy by this point and he does a very fine job of creating a central nebbish who simply wants to enjoy his weed and get through life without bothering anyone. As his partner in perpetual paranoia, the normally stoic James Franco is allowed to let his hair down here and have an absolute ball with his role. (If you've never seen "Freaks & Geeks," then you'll probably be shocked to learn that Franco has such comedy chops. I, however, was very entertained but not at all surprised.) Best of all, Rogen and Franco strike a fantastic chemistry together (which isn't surprising either, since they've known each other since they were teenagers), with the former a neurotic and self-centered (but ultimately sweet) nobody and the latter a soft-spoken and frequently clueless (but occasionally insightful) weed-sponge.

    As is always the case when Rogen and Judd Apatow are on the job, the bong is over-packed with colourful supporting characters. Once again we have a film that all but screams "This Danny McBride dude is FUNNY!" (This guy redefines the phrase "scene-stealer," particularly as part of one of the funniest film brawls I've ever witnessed.) As the snarling bad guys, Gary Cole and Rosie Perez are clearly having a lot of fun riffing off each other. Even more arcane antics come from the likes of Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Bill Hader, Ken Jeong, Amber Heard ... plus we get some of the funniest stuff from Nora Dunn and Ed Begley Jr. ("Angie, you're a fucking idiot. I say that with love.") in quite some time. I chuckle just thinking about it. Enthusiastic film geeks who buy a ticket for Pineapple Express hoping for some choice "quotables" will NOT go away disappointed.

    "You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos, motherfucker!"

    Pineapple Express is, of course, an unapologetically raunchy, appreciably scrappy, and exceedingly violent little comedy, and it's a "matinee for relative grown-ups" that will almost certainly entertain its intended audience. Green and company keep the material moving at a very brisk clip, some of the more conventional comedy stops are interrupted by unexpected sequences of admirable... weirdness, and the whole thing looks like it was as much fun to shoot as it was to watch. And even if you wouldn't know weed from green wool, Pineapple Express works as a fast-paced buddy comedy with lots of laughs and a few hilariously unpleasant surprises. It's not exactly a "dark" comedy, but it sure isn't scared of making mirth out of morbidity. Let's say that once the bullets start flying, Franco becomes Bugs Bunny and Rogen becomes Daffy Duck. And you know what those guys do to their enemies.

    "War is upon you! Prepare to suck the cock of karma!"

    In other words, I liked this flick a lot, not just because it gave me some "funny pot schtick" from a bunch of entertaining actors and it's directed by a man I admire immensely - but because it's a comedy that takes chances, hearkens back to a weirder generation, and doles out as many surprises as it does big laughs. I'd call it a near-perfect mix between art-house cleverness and mainstream amusement. Plus, man, it's worth seeing just for Franco's frequently fried facial expressions. This guy should never do "drama" again.

    Saul: "BFFF?
    Dale: Best Fuckin' Friends Forever, man!"
  • stuartb1234
    October 8, 2009
    stuartb1234
    Enjoyable drug buddy comedy. Bit like Harold and Kumar meet Rambo!
  • DanzigMisfits
    February 7, 2010
    DanzigMisfits
    Funny as hell, Seth Rogen is the shit, and James Franco and craig robinson is too everyone is the shit in the movie.
  • maxmoser3
    February 6, 2010
    maxmoser3
    pineapple express is a funny stoner comedy action flick with seth rogen who is just a funny little stoner in this film it is like a cheech and chong film the next generation but with violence I mean pineapple express it is very cride though but it is very funny at the same time j...( read more)ust sitting there and seeing seth rogen and james franco just getting stoned and I must say pineapple express is a funny fun comedy produced by director of the 40 year old virgin and knocked up judd apatow
  • ahmedsniper2003
    February 5, 2010
    ahmedsniper2003
    Predictable and unfunny with a disasterous ending. A huge dissapointment knowing it was created by the same team of the standout comedy "Superbad". Frankly, the movie started out quite good and had the promise of a funny stoner film till it falled apart in its second half. The pl...( read more)ot is dull and you have seen million times before(the type of films about two losers witnessing a murder by a crime lord and being chased throughout the film). The one liners of Franco`s character couldnot save the film from its unoriginality and the fact it is really boring; Rogen was ridiclously annoying ,as usual,and got into my nerves in almost every scene he was in (almost every scene in the freakin film). At the ending it turned out to be an action and the two stone heads strated to shoot and kill everybody around, really am I suppossed to be convinced by this shit?!I would lie if I said I did not laugh a bunch but that defenitly did not worth my time.
  • nomadjk20
    February 1, 2010
    nomadjk20
    Oh yea watch this movie.
  • felyisaflygyal
    February 1, 2010
    felyisaflygyal
    SSSSSSSSSsooooooooooooo funny lmafo i loceto laugh at weed heads gettig trouble!!!!!

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Critic Reviews

September 12, 2008
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times

The theoretically fail-safe team of the writer/actor Seth Rogen and co-writer/ producer Judd Apatow - the Knocked Up duo - deliver a funnybone- clobbering spree with more energy than wit. full review

August 7, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press

The result is Green's first watchable movie since George Washington -- even if it's ultimately worthless. full review

August 6, 2008
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

The movie is so wayward and fuzzy that, for the unbaked, at least, there's very little pleasure to be had in trying to follow it. The thing is so desultory and aimless that it seems like work to try t... full review

August 6, 2008
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

The movie's too long -- and the violence and mayhem are unexpectedly harsh and heavy -- but Franco's inspired, looped performance is right up there in the annals of reefer filmdom with Jeff Bridges' t... full review

August 6, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

You needn't be a pothead to enjoy Pineapple Express -- the movie; I mean the movie. full review

August 5, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Rogen, Franco and McBride are on the march into stoner legend. full review

August 5, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Pineapple Express is the unlikeliest comedy of the summer. It's also going to be one of the best-loved. full review

August 5, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today

You don't have to be in an altered state to appreciate the ludicrous humor. The laughs -- mostly crude, profane and drug-addled -- are almost non-stop. full review

August 5, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Pineapple Express is the answer to the question, 'What would happen if a movie like this was made by a great director?' full review

August 4, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

It's empty and formulaic, with plotting that's lazy even by stoner-comedy standards. Without all the yuck-o sight gags, it would be a huge bummer. full review

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  • christka19
    September 10, 2009
    christka19
    this is the best movie ever love it love it love it the cast did such an amazing job, my fav was james franco he did such an amazing job as saul he was so funny.
  • nicolejoalexis
    February 28, 2009
    nicolejoalexis
    BFFF= Best Fuckin Friends Forever
  • afowler86
    February 13, 2009
    afowler86
    freakin retarded movie! ha
  • thatguy9
    February 6, 2009
    thatguy9
    "Tech you don't got not style mother fuck**" funniest part of the whole movie
  • lizrocks2686
    February 2, 2009
    lizrocks2686
    i love this movie to 10 millions of pieces! =D
    danny mcbride is amazing!!
    i love when they fight at his house. and when saul tapes his fingers to his leg OMG! i got a kick out of that. AND talk radio is boring!!!!!!!!
    love the movie!
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    January 18, 2009
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  • pedrogijoe
    January 3, 2009
    pedrogijoe

    Saul: Heat-seeking missiles, bloodhounds, foxes, barracudas
    hahahahhahahaha saul its like the best dealer ever hahahahha
  • parasyte420
    December 4, 2008
    parasyte420
    love this movie! comes out Jan 6/09 i heard.
    cant wait!! :D
  • thatchavsatw
    September 24, 2008
    thatchavsatw
    this is a fuck awesome film, luv it sooooooo much!!!
  • YLOWBSTARDreturns
    April 29, 2008
    YLOWBSTARDreturns
    "Thug Life"
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