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Dir: David Gordon Green. Cast: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Amber Heard, Bill Hader, James Remar

 

Description: Dale Denton is a twenty-something slacker with a beautiful high school girlfriend Angie and a love for pot, supplied by lackadaisical local dealer Saul. During one of his regular jaunts to Saul's apartment, Dale samples a particularly rare and potent form of weed called Pineapple Express, which produces an intense high. Under the influence of the heady drug, Dale witnesses ruthless businessman Ted Jones and his cop lover Carol murdering a rival. Unfortunately, Ted and Carol see Dale flee the scene and they give chase, determined to silence the witness before he has a chance to blab.

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Stoners meet cops in Pineapple Express

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  11.09.08
 
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Gone to pot: Dale (Seth Rogen) and Saul (James Franco) in a tangle in Pineapple Express

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Judd Apatow’s production company has made some dismal movies over the past year, none of them to be compared with The 40-Year-Old Virgin or Knocked Up. But this stoner comedy, directed by David Gordon Green, who once made an admired film about George Washington, at least avoids many of the pitfalls of such dogs as You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.

Its two main characters are Dale (Seth Rogen), a legal process server who smokes a rare strain of pot called Pineapple Express, and Saul (James Franco), his amiable dealer, the only guy to sell it in town. When Dale witnesses a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and a drug lord (Gary Cole), he drops a stash of PE at the scene and flees, hotly pursued by the villains.

There’s a far too long set-piece at the end, when the crooks catch up with our semi-stoned pair. The stoner dialogue gets wearisome at times, particularly when you can make out what everyone’s mumbling.

But Rogen and Franco are intrinsically funny and there is a splendid sequence when the fracas between stoner good and criminal evil disturbs an old people’s home. There, an ancient lady tells an eager policeman that he should do something about the pimple on his cheek.

It’s a tiny moment, perhaps, but more of them might have made the movie a good deal better. Apatow’s former confidence about not underestimating the intelligence of his audiences seems to have largely disappeared

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