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59
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57
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57
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56
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26
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xx
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xx
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xx
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xx
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Extreme Movie
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Pineapple Express
Columbia Pictures (Sony)
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence
Starring
Seth Rogen,
James Franco,
Gary Cole,
Rosie Perez,
Danny R. McBride,
Amber Heard,
and
James Remar
Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: 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 and the city's most dangerous drug lord, 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. (Sony Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Crime
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Evan Goldberg (& story)
Seth Rogen (& story)
Judd Apatow (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
David Gordon Green
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 6, 2009
Theatrical: August 6, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
107 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
91
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
As loose and playful as major studio movies get.
88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The laughs -- mostly crude, profane and drug-addled -- are almost non-stop.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's a quality movie even if the material is unworthy of the treatment. As a result, yes, it's a druggie comedy that made me laugh.
88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
You'll go limp from laughing.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
One of the most hilarious and engaging films from producer Judd Apatow's often inconsistent comedy factory, thanks to inspired dialogue, dynamite chemistry between Rogen and Franco and perfectly pitched stoner gags (undoubtedly the result of copious research).
80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The movie is jampacked with jokes, sight gags and set pieces guaranteed to appeal to the audience's sense of the preposterous.
80
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky
A savvy nod to 1980s action comedies, down to the Huey Lewis original that plays over the end credits. But its greatest achievements lie in the tossed-off non sequiturs, the pop-culture (and Scott Baio) allusions, and the unexpected respites in the midst of all the bang-bang-boom.
80
Empire
Damon Wise
Fans of David Gordon Green, you may well leave feeling confused. Fans of daft laughs and James Franco, you're in for one of the funniest comedies of the year.
78
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
A film that is at once elegant and sublimely silly.
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Frequently hilarious, occasionally sweet and often graphically violent, Pineapple Express may not be the greatest stoner movie ever made, but it will do perfectly well until we get another hit of Harold and Kumar.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Yes, Pineapple Express is exceedingly crude, but it's never mean or lewd, and for all the drugs and gore in it, the movie is also strangely, unrelentingly sweet, even when its characters are bleeding to death.
75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Like the film's giddily intoxicating cannabis hybrid, Rogen and Goldberg's script cross-pollinates Cheech-and-Chong style stoner comedy with Tarantino-esque ultra-violence.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The humor in this movie is smart enough that even a moderate level of intoxication or inebriation is not necessary to enjoy it.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
It's a funny, mostly harmless and entertaining film with a bad case of dry mouth.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It ends up subverting its own subversion, arriving at a place that can only be called conventional.
75
NPR
Bob Mondello
Probably the most artful of the Apatow Factory comedies so far, but that's not to suggest it doesn't take being sweetly dumb just as seriously as the rest.
75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
So filled with verve and wit for much of its running time that it's depressing to watch it devolve into genuine foolishness and borderline incoherence in its final act.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
It's with that action aspect that Pineapple Express differs from Apatow's previous production output, and though, the words "taut" and "pulse-pounding" would never apply, the giddily over-the-top fight sequences, choreographed by veteran stunt coordinator Gary Hymes, handily compensate for the lag time.
70
Slate
Dana Stevens
Laugh for laugh, Pineapple Express is way funnier than "Superbad." It may be the funniest mainstream comedy released so far this year (not that that means much when you've got "The Love Guru" pulling down your average).
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Perversely enough, the comedy is what keeps the picture rolling; it's the so-called action that persists in bringing the thing to a screeching halt.
63
Premiere
Eric Kohn
Never achieves greatness, but it has the right people in place to suggest the greatness that might have been.
63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The movie's a crazy quilt of pot jokes, sarcastic put-downs and pop culture references both obvious and obscure.
63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Disappointingly, Pineapple Express is less than the sum of its ingredients, even if it's still a good stupid time at the movies.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Around the midpoint, Pineapple Express falls apart and keeps falling, and the comedy, spiced with considerable, unevenly effective violence in that first hour, goes out the window, and in comes all the gore and the bone-crunching.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The movie's too long - and the violence and mayhem are unexpectedly harsh and heavy - but Franco's inspired, looped performance is right up there in the annals of reefer filmdom with Jeff Bridges' the Dude in "The Big Lebowski."
60
Variety
Justin Chang
This rambunctious paean to pot retains the trademark Apatow sweetness even as it careens from messy vulgarisms to even messier violence.
60
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
In the role of dramaturge, Rogen and his co-scripter Goldberg lack Apatow's discipline and deft hand for peripheral characters; the writing in Pineapple Express gets lazy whenever it strays too far from its central axis of players.
60
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
It's an unshowy, generous performance [by Franco] and it greatly humanizes a movie that, as it shifts genre gears and cranks up the noise, becomes disappointingly sober and self-serious.
60
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Let's be honest; a great deal of the sh-- you find funny when you're high really isn't (as anyone who's smoked a few bowls and laughed like a hyena to "Assy McGee" can attest). So hopefully nobody will be too disappointed when I tell them that "Express" is largely hit and miss.
60
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The problem, dare I say it, is that the movie just ... isn't ... that ... funny.
50
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Goony, so-so comedy.
50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Watching this is like watching kids play with Hot Wheels--not a bad time at all, but I wouldn't pay ten bucks for it.
50
Time
Richard Corliss
But it IS a movie about dopes: goofy guys, born without the ambition gene, and who would not survive a minute in the drug world, or the real one, without the guardian angel of a scriptwriter hovering to think them out of scrapes.
42
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
As an action comedy, it's just a bad trip.
40
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
When "Pineapple" goes from ganja to genre, it sours.
40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The picture is resolutely unhip and proud of it, which can be a good thing in the right hands or, in the wrong ones, just a gimmick. Nearly everything about Pineapple Express is a gimmick.
40
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
It's empty and formulaic, with plotting that's lazy even by stoner-comedy standards. Without all the yuck-o sight gags, it would be a huge bummer.
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