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Pineapple Express (2008)

August. 06,2008
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6.9
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R
| Action Comedy Crime
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A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

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Evengyny
2008/08/06

Thanks for the memories!

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AniInterview
2008/08/07

Sorry, this movie sucks

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Donald Seymour
2008/08/08

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Rexanne
2008/08/09

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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dierregi
2008/08/10

Rogen and Franco are Dale and Saul, a couple of weed-smoking slackers who get involved in a murder. This type of movie is usually targeted to a young audience and tends to be filled with gross profane jokes, bad language and stupidity. Here we have plenty of bad language and stupidity, but the jokes are actually quite funny. Having mostly seen Franco in "serious" movies, I was surprised by his comic skills. He is hilarious as the perpetually stoned Saul, blurting out one idiotic sentence after the other. He is also very cute and a bit of eye candy never hurts. Rogen seems always to play the same part of obnoxious, lazy looser, but here he was funnier and slightly more energetic than usual.The fight scenes were actually hilarious and sort of believable, with people hitting each other like in real life, without any spectacular stunt. They "just" punched randomly, often hitting the wrong target and screaming in pain. Danny McBride in the supporting role of Red is also funny and so is Begley Jr. in the small role of the crazy father of Dale's girlfriend.

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Robert J. Maxwell
2008/08/11

A description of the characters and the plot make the film sound as silly as an old Popeye cartoon, but it does have its moments and adults ought to find it almost as amusing as its target audience of teens. You'd never think laughs could still be gotten out of weed heads but marijuana works here as a kind of plot engine. If it weren't for some dynamite pot known as "Pineapple Express," nothing would have happened.It's Los Angeles and there are two high-echelon drug organizations at war -- one run by Gary Cole, the other by Asians. The two protagonists -- Rogen and Franco -- are everyday users, with Franco a small time dealer and Rogen a process server. (Franco, in all seriousness, "What do you serve? Like, hamburgers?") Rogen witnesses a murder by Cole, flips away his roach and flees the scene with a great deal of commotion. Cole watches the car speed away, picks up the discarded butt, puffs on it, and says "Pineapple Express." Alas, the brand is so rare that it can easily be traced to dealer Franco. Realizing this, and it's one of the few things they DO realize, Rogen and Franco hastily pack up and leave everything behind. The rest of the movie is largely a story of pursuit, with shootings, a high speed car chase, various explosions and a general atmosphere of hysteria.It's pretty funny. The most outrageous performance is by Seth Rogen who gives expert imitations of flooding out with fear, screaming hoarsely, waving his arms, weeping. Franco, comparatively speaking, has a Zen quality about him. Craig Robinson, as a semi-moronic hit man, gives a splendid performance and is given some good lines. "You know, I may look tough but I have feelings too, and you just hurt every one of them." But then many of the lines are -- well, not exactly WITTY, but funny nevertheless. While they are discussing their perilous situation, Rogen asks Franco if it's really possible for Cole and his gang to track them down. How could they do it? Franco, befuddled by dope, muses, "I don't know. Bloodhounds maybe. Dogs. Barracudas." There's a good deal of slapstick at the end during a bloody but still comic shootout, but that too is well choreographed. Grownups ought to get a kick out of at least some of the scenes and some of the dialog.

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Bukronik
2008/08/12

I remember watching this maybe a year or so after it came out. i finally got around to watching it and i remember thinking it was really good! so tonight I decided to watch it again... and i turned it of after about 40 minutes. Right at the dinner with Seth's girlfriend's parents... I realized how awful this film actually is. The way Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) explained to the family what he had seen. how he arrives and stumbles his way through lying about forgetting the dinner he was invited to. so unbelievably annoying. "Right the dinner! yes of course im here because of the dinner. The dinner I was invited to. Yes thats why Im here." thats the gist of it. "why are you all dirty" "Im not. I was in the woods." Jesus how stupid. Its not funny and its a total cliché. Characters that try to explain something clearly and coherently never can, ever. After Dale witnesses the murder he runs to Saul's house and does the same thing! "They killed him! They killed him!" Ummm yeah thats exactly how I would start telling a person that has no idea what's going on. My god so annoying! The movie really isn't funny at all except for a few scenes. I also love how, just like every movie, Seth Rogen's girlfriend is a total smokeshow and he is a fat loser... thats pretty much every movie. Maybe I'm just tired of Seth Rogen and James Franco. I mean sometimes they do good things but mostly its just them and all of their friends doing friend things. "This Is The End" is the perfect example. That movie is actually funny but everything they do has to be all of their friends included. "The Roast of James Franco"... which I have no idea He earned a roast (I was under the impression that you got roasted for being an icon or something of that sort).... was basically a stage filled with all of his friends and a few real comedians. Its just terrible.So anyways yeah go ahead and watch it ans tell me you don't want to rip your ears off as Stehg Rogen explains that he witnessed a murder. 2/10

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srdjan_veljkovic
2008/08/13

Well, the start is slow and long because it's not really funny unless you find pot smokers acting stoned funny in itself.After a while (about an hour) things start to move away from "pot- heavy" and get much better, but not great. There are interesting ideas, but it's still mostly gags, many of which don't work very well.The dynamics between the two main characters don't feel genuine. Sure, they're stoned all the time, but that shouldn't effect how they feel and you seeing it - it should only affect how they express their feelings. It's not enough for them to just say what they feel, because that's in the script, they should act like it.Also, the end doesn't really tie loose ends, which is strange for a movie this long.

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