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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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Apatow's former confidence about not underestimating the intelligence of his audiences seems to have largely disappeared. Sep 12, 2008 | Rating: 2/5
Apatow's former confidence about not underestimating the intelligence of his audiences seems to have largely disappeared.
Derek Malcolm
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 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Peter Bradshaw
The problem about being hopelessly stoned is that you also become hopelessly boring. So it is here. Sep 12, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The problem about being hopelessly stoned is that you also become hopelessly boring. So it is here.
James Christopher
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. Sep 12, 2008 | Rating: 4/6 | Full Review…
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.
Tom Huddlestone
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. Aug 11, 2008
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.
Richard Roeper
Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills. Aug 8, 2008 | Full Review…
Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills.
Peter Rainer
Cheech and Chong have found new heirs apparent in the form of Saul and Dale, in a film destined to be a new stoner classic. Jun 6, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Cheech and Chong have found new heirs apparent in the form of Saul and Dale, in a film destined to be a new stoner classic.
Matthew Lucas
I admit I enjoyed Pineapple Express more than I expected. Oct 30, 2018 | Full Review…
I admit I enjoyed Pineapple Express more than I expected.
Eileen Jones
This is a baggy, pointless, tiresome film, which is also messy, puerile, cack-handedly gruesome and plain unfunny. Aug 23, 2018 | Full Review…
This is a baggy, pointless, tiresome film, which is also messy, puerile, cack-handedly gruesome and plain unfunny.
Deborah Ross
David Gordon Green seems to have used this template as some sort of experiment... Green's method is like a stone-cold killer in a John Woo movie: He makes us laugh, then immediately shoots us in the face. Jun 7, 2018 | Full Review…
David Gordon Green seems to have used this template as some sort of experiment... Green's method is like a stone-cold killer in a John Woo movie: He makes us laugh, then immediately shoots us in the face.
Stephen Himes
The party got out of hand towards the end, and we probably should have booked out before we got too tired. Aug 23, 2017 | Full Review…
The party got out of hand towards the end, and we probably should have booked out before we got too tired.
Mark Asch
You would have to smoke a great deal of the stuff to make Pineapple Express seem like a good movie, although from the assorted giggles at the Rio Theatre, the audience was ripped and receptive. Aug 22, 2017 | Full Review…
You would have to smoke a great deal of the stuff to make Pineapple Express seem like a good movie, although from the assorted giggles at the Rio Theatre, the audience was ripped and receptive.
Dorothy Woodend
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