Movie : Pineapple Express

Production: Columbia, Relativity Media, Apatow Prods.
Cast: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride
Director: David Gordon Green
Screenwriters: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg
Producers: Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson.
Executive producers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Director of photography: Tim Orr
Production designer: Chris Spellman.
Music: Graeme Revell
Costume designer: John Dunn
Editor: Craig Alpert.
Release Date: August 8th, 2008
Genres: Comedy, Action/Adventure
Subgenres: Drugs
Rated R, 112 minutes.

Plot Synopsis:



Next summer, 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.

Review PINEAPPLE EXPRESS



Category: *COMEDY, Rockin' Review

Smoke some and get some, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is a high time party starter with outrageous action and in your face explosives. It’s a comedy movie for all the knuckleheads out there who take life one pipe at a time. I know I shouldn’t be advocating marijuana but this is just… too good to pass up. In the spirit of Ceech and Chong, Half-Baked, Friday, Harold and Kumar and Super High Me,… let me just say that PINEAPPLE EXPRESS will weed out the competition… get it, weed!

Dale Denton finds his job tedious. The only to get some excitement is by smoking weed and whenever he needs supply, he can come to his most reliable dealer, Saul Silver. There’s a new stuff in the market called Pineapple Express, it’s like no other. 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. The weed happens to be so rare that it can be traced back to his dealer, Saul. And so they run for their lives.

It’s a typical friendship movie between two buddies who share one thing in common, their love for ganja.
I think what keeps bringing audience back to this genre, anytime stoner movies hits theaters, is not only because some of us can actually relate to the ‘experience’, but also because we enjoy seeing stoners do their stuff. And by that I mean what pot can do to people…
Decreasing intelligence, the incredible appetite, and they easily laugh at anything,.. I mean anything
Stoners crack me up.

And just like other movie like it, this one also dares to present different types of weed and the various ways to enjoy ‘em.
James Franco’s character says the funniest lines in the movie when he describes what the cross is all about.
Seth Rogen may have the most peculiar laughter but his performance in this movie could not have been done by anyone else.
The one who steals the show is Danny McBride as the other friend who just can’t seem to die no matter how badly he’s been shot. Danny McBride is the next big thing in the world of comedy.
Once again, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is prove that being in Judd Apatow’s circle of friends is a beneficial thing.

This movie’s got all the elements needed in an action movie… guns, mafia, corrupt cops, painful fight sequences, car chase scene… It makes fun of how some things seem to be easily done in action movies when they’re not supposed to happen at all.. like kicking out the front window of a car… the concept sounds feasible but it’s easier said than done. That’s where writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg see the humor.

One thing that I kinda don’t like is how things seem to be a bit chopped off from one scene to another. There are times when one scene ends and another one begins without any explanation as to what happens in betweens or how it gets from the previous one to the other. But that is to be expected in a movie like this, that has the intention of entertaining us and nothing else.

There are some dull moments especially when Seth’s character and James Franco’s character are just goofing around in the woods during the day while getting high and you hear the musical accompaniment in the background.
I think they could’ve thrown in some silly animation to take us through the la-la land… that would’ve been much more fun to watch.

Seth Rogen was once asked about the research he put into making this movie happen, to which he replied that back where he came from, there was nothing to do but smoke weed.
Whatever he did, it’s worked in his favor.
I don’t recommend this to all ages because of the violence, and the cussing, and the ignorance, and the full exposure to everything weed.
But to those of us who like a shot of guilty pleasure from time to time,,,, hell yeah!
The dopest dope!

Taken From : http://www.ramasscreen.com

The movie’s official website can be found at www.ridetheexpress.com


Pineapple Express Movie Trailer (official)