Pineapple Express (2008)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 193
Fresh: 131 | Rotten: 62
Both funny and scatter shot, this loose-knit action/buddy/stoner comedy bridges genres and keeps a steady tempo of low ball laughs.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 18
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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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
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Cast
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Seth Rogen
Dale Denton -
James Franco
Saul Silver -
Gary Cole
Ted Jones -
Rosie Perez
Carol the female cop -
Danny McBride
Red -
Kevin Corrigan
Budlofsky -
Craig Robinson
Matheson -
Amber Heard
Angela 'Angie' Anderson -
Ed Begley Jr
Robert -
Nora Dunn
Shannon -
Joe Lo Truglio
Mr. Edwards -
Bobby Lee
Bobby -
James Remar
General Bratt -
Arthur Napiontek
Clark -
Cleo King
Police Liaison Officer -
Bill Hader
Private Miller -
Jonathan Walker Spencer
Scientist -
Dana Lee
Cheung -
Ken Jeong
Ken -
David C. Cook
Chris Gebert -
Howard S. Lefstein
Mark -
Connie Sawyer
Faye Belogus -
David McDivitt
Cop With Mole -
Mae Laborde
Mrs. Mendelson -
Kendall Carly Browne
Old Woman -
George Lew
Old Man -
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Adam Crosby
Ack -
Andrew Heald
Blake -
Jeanetta Arnette
Sandra Danby -
Carlos Aleman Ocampo
Guy In Car -
Omar Leyva
Guy In Car #2 -
Sam Carson
Xerox Secretary -
Jack Kehler
Walter/Accountant -
Robert Longstreet
Dr. Terrence -
Peter Barent Lewis
Thug #1 -
Steve Bannos
Thug #2 -
Eddie Rouse Jr.
Thug #5 -
Mark Whigham
Thug #3 -
Brian Scannell
Thug #4 -
Gary Hymes
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All Critics (194) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (138) | Rotten (62) | DVD (9)
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.
Top CriticWatching 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.
This is an endearingly slovenly, profane movie with bursts of startling violence, but it's all played for nyuk-nyuk laughs, and it has been directed with more care than it might initially appear by David Gordon Green.
Never generates any big laughs, and the chase elements are so intentionally cliched they never take on a life of their own.
Your love of it will largely depend on how funny you find a movie with 85 percent of the jokes based on smoking weed. For the rest of you a lot of it is going to feel very silly, crammed with potty humor and overly long for such a simple subject matter.
Given that cast, crew and audience were and will be baked throughout, Pineapple Express just about earns itself a pass.
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.
Pretty bad
(...) 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.
Audience Reviews for Pineapple Express
Super Reviewer
"Put This in Your Pipe and Smoke It."
Pineapple Express is one of my favorite stoner comedies of all-time. It "hits" all the "high" points that it needs to. It also pulled a great and soon to be classic performance out of James Franco as Saul the drug dealer/stoner. Everything he does, from his mannerisms to how he talks to what he says is a perfect parody/impersonation of a stoner. His performance doesn't reach the level of say Sean Penn in Fast Times, but it is one of the best stoner performances I have ever seen.
Dale and his drug dealer, Saul, end up on the run from a corrupt cop and a major drug kingpin Ted. Their experience takes them through shootouts, fist fights, car chases, and wooded adventures. There are some classic scenes in this film. I especially love the woods scene. It's a perfect piece of pothead paranoia and is actually not far from some experiences you've had while smoking the cannabis.
The film has its share of problems. I won't deny that at all. Still this is a film that I can watch and re-watch and watch again. People who aren't laughing after the first scene where we see where the prohibition of marijuana came from should just give up on it there, because it's a sign of the humor to come. This is strictly a drug comedy. Sure there are elements of other forms of comedy, slapstick and sex comedy included; but as The 40 Year Old Virgin was to sex comedies, Pineapple Express is to drug comedies.
If you're a fan of this genre, you'll absolutely love this film. If you aren't, you still might like it because it's better than 90% of drug comedies. So give it a try. You may not like it, but then again you may be like me and won't be able to stop laughing. If you want a little help with the experience, toke up beforehand. You'll be howling.
Super Reviewer
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- Dale Denton: Coucous, the food's so nice, they named it twice.
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- Matheson: You can wear my vest, it smell good..
- Budlofsky: Na, it's not my style.
- Matheson: You ain't got no style muthafucka.
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- Saul Silver: Fuck Da Police! [shoots at police woman and misses all shots]
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- Saul Silver: Hey look, it's like my thumb is my cock. Heh heh...
- Dale Denton: That's not going to get us a ride, man.
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- Robert: [with shotgun] You assholes do exactly what I say or I will take you outside and FUCK YOU IN THE STREET!
- Saul Silver: No, don't do that.
- Dale Denton: Don't fuck us anywhere.
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- Saul Silver: I wish we could just go nowhere...
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Foreign Titles
- Ananas Express (DE)
- The Pineapple Express (UK)
