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.
CommentDec 24, 2009
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Pineapple Express (2008)
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Reviews Counted:185
Fresh:126
Rotten:59
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Both funny and scatter shot, this loose-knit action/buddy/stoner comedy bridges genres and keeps a steady tempo of low ball laughs.
Theatrical Release: Aug 6, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $87.3M
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez
Director: David Gordon Green
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REVIEWS FOR PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
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.
Aug 30, 2009
Pretty bad
Aug 26, 2009
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.
Jan 13, 2009
Definitely can not be compared to Superbad or Knocked Up, but another secure comedy brought to use by both Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow.
Jan 4, 2009
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.
Dec 19, 2008
Pineapple Express is funny, but it's not outrageously funny. Such material needs to be outrageously funny to succeed.
Nov 12, 2008
Pineapple Express is a highly entertaining, offbeat comedy-thriller that has Future Cult Movie written all over it. Recommended.
Sep 12, 2008
Apatow’s former confidence about not underestimating the intelligence of his audiences seems to have largely disappeared.
Sep 12, 2008
The first half-hour floats by on a cloud of mildly funny lines ("couscous – the food so nice they named it twice"), but then slumps into a derivative action caper that's weirdly and unappealingly reminiscent of Eighties dross like Beverly Hills Cop.
Sep 12, 2008
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.
Sep 12, 2008
This is a Class A comedy about Class B drugs. It has a Rizla-thin plot but Camberwell-carrot sized laughs.
Sep 12, 2008
Pineapple Express descends from patchy comedy to decidedly daft action send-up.
Sep 12, 2008
Though there are funny one-liners early on, the script becomes increasingly lazy, while the violence which takes over the second half feels as if it belongs to a different picture.
Sep 12, 2008
The Freaks And Geeks boys prove that weedy action men are where it’s at. Pineapple Express sometimes zones out but mostly blows minds and inspires some delirious giggles. Like the titular grass, really.
Sep 12, 2008
As stoner comedies go, it's of a high enough grade for even Cheech & Chong themselves to put it in a Rizla and smoke it.
Sep 12, 2008
Pineapple Express has its fair share of laughs, but it's a fundamentally heartless and unlovable minor work from Team Apatow.
Sep 12, 2008
Watching this without having got stoned first is like watching a 3D movie without the special glasses. There are a few moderate laughs (and a nice Jude Law gag) but the full-on gory violence is disconcerting and unfunny.
Sep 12, 2008
The problem about being hopelessly stoned is that you also become hopelessly boring. So it is here.
Sep 12, 2008
More half-baked than Superbad or Knocked Up but still solidly entertaining, if unnecessarily violent, and with a great performance from James Franco.
Sep 12, 2008
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