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Pineapple Express (2008)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 190
Fresh: 129 | Rotten: 61

Both funny and scatter shot, this loose-knit action/buddy/stoner comedy bridges genres and keeps a steady tempo of low ball laughs.

61

Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 15

Both funny and scatter shot, this loose-knit action/buddy/stoner comedy bridges genres and keeps a steady tempo of low ball laughs.

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74

liked it
Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 257,881

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Movie Info

Critically acclaimed director David Gordon Green takes a break from the brooding drama that defined such early efforts as George Washington and Undertow for this action-flavored buddy comedy concerning two pot-smoking friends (Seth Rogen and James Franco) who unwittingly become involved with a vicious gang of drug dealers. Judd Apatow and Shauna Robertson produce a script co-penned by star Rogen and Evan Goldberg. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 52 min.

Comedy

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg

Jan 6, 2009

$87.3M

Sony/Columbia

Cast

All Critics (190) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (136) | Rotten (61) | DVD (9)

Watching Pineapple Express is like sitting dead sober in a room with a bunch of stoned people who are laughing uproariously. They're having a great time. You're not.

August 11, 2008 Comments (54)
Ebert & Roeper
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Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills.

August 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | Comments (9)
Christian Science Monitor
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At its sharpest, the script by [Seth]Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who co-wrote Superbad, recalls what made Superbad worth seeing: the sidewinding conversational riffs, the why-am-I-laughing? wordplay.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comments (7)
Chicago Tribune
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Never generates any big laughs, and the chase elements are so intentionally cliched they never take on a life of their own.

August 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (14)
Chicago Reader
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Imagine Superbad, but with fear of drug-related homicide replacing adolescent sexual panic as the excuse for male bonding, and you won't be too far off.

August 6, 2008 Full Review Source: New Republic | Comment
New Republic
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The swath of destruction these boys leave in their wake seems disproportionate to the prevailing mood of dopey fun.

August 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Slate | Comments (4)
Slate
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This is possibly the first time a blackened, burnt corpse is played for laughs. It all flows by like so much sugar water.

August 15, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express | Comment
East Bay Express

In the end, that feel-good factor overrides occasional moments of discomfort.

July 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Digital Spy | Comment
Digital Spy

The movie runs red with both blood and cherry Slushies ... There's also more male affection on display here than, well, since 'Superbad' and that cowboy movie that people still complain to me about.

December 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Florida Times-Union | Comment
Florida Times-Union

Enjoyable, but probably only as funny as it thinks it is if you're as high as Judd Apatow's salary.

October 31, 2009 Comment
Cut Print Review

Pineapple Express is good for a few laughs but little more; it's low-grade Apatow--I think they used to call it dirt weed.

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Times | Comment

Pretty bad

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comments (4)
CinePassion

(...) Sumamente disfrutable para cualquiera, haya probado o no alguna vez un porro.

April 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | Comment
Uruguay Total

Get the unrated version and have a comical night.

February 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | Comment

A stoner movie that isn't stone-cold stupid. Rogen and Franco make the best stoner pairing since Jay and Silent Bob.

January 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

I'm happy anyway to see that Green can wield his considerable skill in a completely different form, with the result being such a fun movie.

January 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | Comment
Window to the Movies

Definitely can not be compared to Superbad or Knocked Up, but another secure comedy brought to use by both Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow.

January 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | Comment

There's plenty here to keep the attention of both stoners and cinephiles alike.

January 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Might best be described as the Three Stooges, only with guns and gore, oh, and lots of pot, too.

January 1, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

There's a lot less time available to get high than just laying low, for this chemically disoriented pair. Pineapple Express, a mixed bag of assorted fruits and nuts, with doper loons on the lam waiting to inhale.

December 25, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

The extras are numerous, including a full-length audio commentary, a collection of deleted, extended and alternate scenes, and a reel of outtakes.

December 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

More an inconsistent collection of gags and skits than a cohesive feature, but the highs are funny and the lows hard to get worked up about, so we still walk away smiling.

December 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment (1)
Apollo Guide

Pineapple Express is funny, but it's not outrageously funny. Such material needs to be outrageously funny to succeed.

November 12, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Pineapple Express is a highly entertaining, offbeat comedy-thriller that has Future Cult Movie written all over it. Recommended.

September 12, 2008 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comments (2)
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Audience Reviews for Pineapple Express

An out of hand situation escalates in a comical Seth Rogan kind of way. The shocker of the film for me was James Franko, who should have been out of his comfort zone here, yet it worked so well!Enjoyable and easy watching.

April 29, 2009
76Majikat

Super Reviewer

The characters could have been played by anyone as no actor in the film were able to express what they can actually do. Such as Seth Rogen, the central protaganist. Despite this Pineapple Express has belly aching laughs and sometimes emotion.

October 24, 2011
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

    1. Saul Silver: I wish we could just go nowhere...
    – Submitted by Raynaldo R (19 days ago)
    1. Red: Today's my cat's birthday.
    – Submitted by Sara B (33 days ago)
    1. Saul Silver: [after Red tosses an ashtray, frisbee style, at Dale's head] Holy cock!
    – Submitted by Ellis F (3 months ago)
    1. Saul Silver: Its out bro. Monkey's out of the bottle man!
    2. Dale Denton: What?
    3. Saul Silver: Yeah!
    4. Dale Denton: Thats not even an expression!
    – Submitted by amidh s (3 months ago)
    1. Dale Denton: Whoa! What the fuck was that?
    2. Saul Silver: I was trying to hit that tree. I missed.
    3. Dale Denton: What tree?
    4. Saul Silver: That one.
    5. Dale Denton: Why didn't you smash it on a rock like a normal person like I did?
    6. Saul Silver: I don't know! How often does somebody smash things? I'm rusty, fuck.
    – Submitted by Lou Z (5 months ago)

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