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.
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08/30/09
Pineapple Express (2008)
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Reviews Counted:185
Fresh:125
Rotten:60
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: $87,341,380
Synopsis: While it might sound outlandish to speak of THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS in the same sentence as CITIZEN KANE, in its own little neck of the cinematic woods the Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen comedy is perhaps... [More]
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez
Director: David Gordon Green
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Reviews for Pineapple Express
Pretty bad
08/26/09
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.
01/13/09
Definitely can not be compared to Superbad or Knocked Up, but another secure comedy brought to use by both Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow.
01/04/09
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.
12/19/08
Pineapple Express is funny, but it's not outrageously funny. Such material needs to be outrageously funny to succeed.
11/12/08
Pineapple Express is a highly entertaining, offbeat comedy-thriller that has Future Cult Movie written all over it. Recommended.
09/12/08
Apatow’s former confidence about not underestimating the intelligence of his audiences seems to have largely disappeared.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
This is a Class A comedy about Class B drugs. It has a Rizla-thin plot but Camberwell-carrot sized laughs.
09/12/08
Pineapple Express descends from patchy comedy to decidedly daft action send-up.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
Pineapple Express has its fair share of laughs, but it's a fundamentally heartless and unlovable minor work from Team Apatow.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
The problem about being hopelessly stoned is that you also become hopelessly boring. So it is here.
09/12/08
More half-baked than Superbad or Knocked Up but still solidly entertaining, if unnecessarily violent, and with a great performance from James Franco.
09/12/08
But there’s still time for a gloriously unexpected coda, a moment of quiet reflection and narrative ingenuity that confirms ‘Pineapple Express’ as the finest comedy of the year.
09/12/08
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