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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.
Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills.
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.
Never generates any big laughs, and the chase elements are so intentionally cliched they never take on a life of their own.
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.
The swath of destruction these boys leave in their wake seems disproportionate to the prevailing mood of dopey fun.
This is possibly the first time a blackened, burnt corpse is played for laughs. It all flows by like so much sugar water.
In the end, that feel-good factor overrides occasional moments of discomfort.
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.
Enjoyable, but probably only as funny as it thinks it is if you're as high as Judd Apatow's salary.
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.
(...) Sumamente disfrutable para cualquiera, haya probado o no alguna vez un porro.
Get the unrated version and have a comical night.
A stoner movie that isn't stone-cold stupid. Rogen and Franco make the best stoner pairing since Jay and Silent Bob.
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.
Definitely can not be compared to Superbad or Knocked Up, but another secure comedy brought to use by both Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow.
There's plenty here to keep the attention of both stoners and cinephiles alike.
Might best be described as the Three Stooges, only with guns and gore, oh, and lots of pot, too.
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.
The extras are numerous, including a full-length audio commentary, a collection of deleted, extended and alternate scenes, and a reel of outtakes.
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.
Pineapple Express is funny, but it's not outrageously funny. Such material needs to be outrageously funny to succeed.
Pineapple Express is a highly entertaining, offbeat comedy-thriller that has Future Cult Movie written all over it. Recommended.
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