Pineapple Express Release Date: August 6, 2008 Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony) Director: David Gordon Green Screenwriter: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny R.
McBride, Amber Heard, James Remar Genre: Action, Comedy MPAA Rating: R (for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and
violence) Official Website: RidetheExpress.com
Plot Summary: The guys who brought you Superbad reunite for
the action-comedy "Pineapple Express." Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has
only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to
purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But
when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez)
and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his
roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit
Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And
it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're
not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot
on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All
aboard the Pineapple Express.
EN 5 Second Review:
We have been waiting for a weed action movie for years,
remember you are talking to the guys who bring you sites such as
saveporkie.com and stonerphilosophy.com
This
by turns inspired, goofy and finally weirdly hyper-violent celebration
of male bonding and chronic Peter Panism joins such classics as Up in
Smoke and the Harold & Kumar oeuvre in its sunny, raunchy acceptance of
its own idiocy Ann Hornaday: Washington Post
When I was growing up, my mom brought home a poster from a
local hippie boutique that featured the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg
standing in the snow with a sign that read "Pot is fun." (What can I
say? She was a cool mom.) That image came back in a giddy rush during
"Pineapple Express," a weed-fueled comedy that seems to have been
designed to prove Ginsberg right...more
Never
generates any big laughs, and the chase elements are so
intentionally cliched they never take on a life of their own JR Jones: Chicago Reader
Following their sleeper hit Superbad, screenwriters
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg team up with David Gordon
Green, the gifted young director of such indie southern
gothics as George Washington, All the Real Girls,
and Undertow. This isn't as strange a marriage as it
might sound...more
IFC News at Comic Con 2008: Pineapple
Express Panel (Topics Discussed: Weed, Sweaty Asses,
Weed, Rogen's Simpson Script, Canadian Weed, Amber
Heard & James Franco on kissing Rogen, Fake Weed,
David Gordon Green's Directing.)
EN 5 Second Review:
We have been waiting for a weed action movie for years,
remember you are talking to the guys who bring you sites such as
saveporkie.com and stonerphilosophy.com
Never
generates any big laughs, and the chase elements are so
intentionally cliched they never take on a life of their own
