Pineapple Express (B)
I knew going into this that it wasn’t going to be like all other Stoner flicks, mainly because it has the names Apatow, and Rogan attached to it.
When not getting high to the tune of Electric Avenue, Dale Denton (Seth Rogan) works as a Process Server, who seems to actually enjoy his job. While delivering a subpoena, Dale witnesses a murder by drug Lord Ted Jones (Gary Cole) and his corrupt cop sidekick/lover (Rosie Perez). Whilst making the noisiest escape humanly possible, Dale makes the mistake of tossing out his half-spent joint. The joint is found and happens to contain the rare, “Dopest of Dope”, Pineapple Express strain or marijuana, which leads straight back to Dale and his dealer, Saul Silver (James Franco). Let the hilarity ensue.
I have to admit, I wasn’t fully sold on PINEAPPLE EXPRESS as much as I was with THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, KNOCKED UP, and SUPERBAD. This is was because I haven’t really seen a decent Stoner flick, maybe I had my hopes a little… high (sorry), hoping for a decent story to be thrown in there with the usual stoner movie jokes. With PINEAPPLE EXPRESS my hopes were met. No, exceeded. One of the better parts of the movie were the scenes with Red (Danny McBride), who plays Saul’s supplier. He steals almost every scene he is in. I also loved how they made this an 80’s buddy flick.
There are a few things I felt a little cheated on, like why was Bobby Lee in the movie, and not given a single funny line??? I liked the soundtrack, it was nice, it felt real, like it actually went along with the story and the pace of the flick, although the theme from the trailers was completely MIA — damn, two Double Entendres in one post 
. This was made up with Huey Lewis and the News putting in their cheezy sounding, yet fun theme song. PINEAPPLE EXPRESS didn’t blow me away, unfortunately, it felt like more of the same from Apatow and his crew. With the amount of consistent funny moments, I felt like every funny moment was in one of the many trailers or TV spots. Seriously, the movie and the trailers/tv spots didn’t feel much different. With all its high and low points, this flick is more Apatow crew comedy gold, hopefully they can keep it up and not falter, “cough”DRILLBIT TAYLOR”cough”.
Next week I’ll post up my review of TROPIC THUNDER, which I feel will out do PINEAPPLE EXPRESS.
