Pineapple Express Poster

Pineapple Express (2008)

R 08/06/2008 Action, Comedy, Crime 1h 51m
66%
User
Score
6.9/10
64/100

Put this in your pipe and smoke it.

Overview

A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

David Gordon Green

Director

Seth Rogen

Screenplay

Evan Goldberg

Screenplay

Judd Apatow

Story

Top Billed Cast

Seth Rogen

Seth Rogen

Dale Denton

James Franco

James Franco

Saul Silver

Gary Cole

Gary Cole

Ted

Danny McBride

Danny McBride

Red

Rosie Perez

Rosie Perez

Carol

Kevin Corrigan

Kevin Corrigan

Budlofsky

Craig Robinson

Craig Robinson

Matheson

Amber Heard

Amber Heard

Angie Anderson

Ed Begley Jr.

Ed Begley Jr.

Robert

Media

[ HD ] Pineapple Express Trailer 1

[ HD ] Pineapple Express Trailer 1

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Reviews

A review by David

Written on February 9, 2020

When it comes to comedy, I'm like a patchwork. My favourite kind is the one I grew up with which is the Looney Tunes cartoons. I can watch them over and over again, and I will always laugh. I also love dark British humour, slapstick, and wait for it.... American.

American humour (especially these days) gets derided, most often due to it being "dumbed down" so the collegiate set can understand it, often using toilet humour as its best punchline. I somewhat disagree, I say that the humour people use between themselves is what drives movies made by Judd Apatow & co.

Take Pineapple Express for example, this movie seems on some level to be fairly realistic. I use that term very loosely, because of course many things that happen in this film, could, and should never happen. Anyhow, the com...

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A review by Kamurai

Written on September 20, 2020

Decent watch, probably won't watch it again, but can recommend.

I'll be upfront, while it's not really for me, I think most people will enjoy this movie, if for nothing else, then the idiot banter.

Franco's a good actor, but sometimes he and Seth put too much of themselves in the movie, and it gets worse when they're together on screen. This basically looks like they just took what they do hanging out on a Friday sometimes and put it on screen in places, basically anytime the action dies down and they start to lean into the lull.

The first story that gets interrupted by the main plot, could easily have it's own movie, romantic comedy or drama: an older man, legitimately and legally dating a high school girl has a LOT of situations to it, and has amazing potential. Once it gets i...

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