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- ComedyActionCrime
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Pineapple Express , 2008
English, Cantonese, Korean
USA
Profile of Pineapple Express
The mood of Pineapple Express is exciting, humorous, and offbeat. The plot centers around stoners, witnessing a crime, and being on the run. It features grossout humor. Pineapple Express is a comedy, action, and crime movie. Stylistically, it is talky. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. Pineapple Express is set in the USA. It happens in contemporary times. The movie is known for being a blockbuster. Pineapple Express is especially suggested for teens and a boys' night. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol, violent content, and profanity.
Summary of Pineapple Express
While it might sound outlandish to speak of THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS in the same sentence as CITIZEN KANE, in its own little neck of the cinematic woods the Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen comedy is perhaps just as groundbreaking. In fact, it's nearly impossible to think of another film that blends so seamlessly pitch-perfect stoner babble with high-octane action sequences.
Dale Denton (Rogen), a process server with a weed fixation, witnesses a murder and turns to his dealer, Saul (James Franco), for support. The murderer is actually Saul's main drug supplier, and because of Saul's access to some extremely rare high-grade pot (called Pineapple Express) the two are quickly tracked down and put on the run. Like all Apatow/Rogen vehicles, the movie deals with the theme of men succumbing to adulthood and all the adjustments they are forced to make in the process. However, unlike KNOCKED UP and THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is just too wacky to offer any lessons. Still, there's more going on here than giggles and the munchies. Indie director David Gordon Green (SNOW ANGELS) brings a subtle auteur's touch to the proceedings, approaching the smoking scenes with his distinctively loose feel and giving the action sequences a wonderfully dated sheen that makes them look more like a fight from KNIGHT RIDER than the empty flash of 21st-century blow-‘em-ups. It is Franco, however, who truly steals this movie--he hasn't been this charming since his days on FREAKS AND GEEKS. There's only so many ways to play a stoner, but Franco puts his own endearing, lovable spin on the type, portraying Saul as a kind-hearted, well-intentioned yet hardcore dope smoker. Rogen and Apatow have proven themselves a nearly unstoppable juggernaut; here's hoping they bring Franco along on the ride a little more often.
Details
| Language: | English, Cantonese, Korean |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 6 August 2008 |
| Runtime: | 111 min |
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as Dale Denton
as Saul Silver
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Critics Reviews
USA Today
The laughs -- mostly crude, profane and drug-addled -- are almost non-stop.
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- by: Claudia Puig
The Onion (A.V. Club)
As loose and playful as major studio movies get.
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- by: Scott Tobias
Users Reviews
This movie must have been conceived and written under the influence of the product featured in the movie! I laughed exactly twice in this overlong movie which does not live up to its comedic potential.
- 02.November.2009
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- by: bankron
- bankron rated this movie
0/10
I got some good laughs from this one and thought it was more good than bad, although there were a number of of bits that really got on my nerves...most of them involving loud and overwrought blasts of man-screaming, LOL. I'm quite a fan of stoner...
- 03.September.2009
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- by: Kymberli
- Kymberli rated this movie0/10
