PINEAPPLE EXPRESS?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:52pm

I'm not really much into stoner films but this one looks legitimately bong-tastic. It also seems a bit different from the usual Apatow fare, which is certainly welcome.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:56pm

They should wait until 4/20 to release this.

[artscallion]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 10:04pm

http://tinyurl.com/5zn5rs

[clever name]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 10:07pm

This looks very funny. I am looking forward to this one and Tropic Thunder. But Cruel, how does this look different from other Apatow movies?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/24/08 at 11:43am

James Franco is still hot even with greasy hair.

[Dolly_Levi]

Posted: 7/24/08 at 12:08pm

Rogen is just becoming a movie star, with release after release ...

[Kasie]

Posted: 7/24/08 at 1:43pm

Can't wait to see this movie. Looks absolutely hilarious! I think it will be Rogen's best yet.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/24/08 at 1:58pm

James Franco is still hot even with greasy hair.



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I was thinking that as well!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/25/08 at 8:33am

"But Cruel, how does this look different from other Apatow movies?"

It just looks more character-based than situation-based than the others. I dunno. It just looks a bit different from KNOCKED UP while still being a comedy.

[Pippin]

Posted: 7/25/08 at 12:08pm

That poor third guy in the poster who has no billing.

"Starring James Franco, Seth Rogan, and some dude"

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/25/08 at 12:14pm

An early review of the movie said that this was the first Apatow (Apatovian?) film that feels like a real story as opposed to a series of interrelated individual scenes. But that could just be blogosphere BS. I'm interested, tho.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/25/08 at 5:20pm

I hear nothing but stellar things about this movie. I can't wait to see it!

[justagirl2]

Posted: 7/25/08 at 11:39pm

Oh, I'm so excited for this. I will watch anything in which James Franco is a stoner, because he's just. so. good. at it.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/27/08 at 4:19pm

So, some EW writers saw it and loved it.

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/comiccon_2008/index.html

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 10:27am

Stephanie Zacharek in Salon is a pan:

"Apatow may have good instincts, but that doesn't mean he has to follow every single one, and the tedious stoner action-comedy "Pineapple Express" is a case in point. Apatow didn't write or direct "Pineapple Express"; he's merely one of the producers. But he did help conceive the story -- with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who co-wrote the script -- and, for the worse, the movie does bear his stamp: The picture is resolutely unhip and proud of it, which can be a good thing in the right hands or, in the wrong ones, just a gimmick. Nearly everything about "Pineapple Express" is a gimmick -- a slow-moving, unglamorous gimmick in which a number of terrific comic actors (Ed Begley Jr., Gary Cole and Rosie Perez, to name just a few) are treated as afterthoughts, while more limited performers, like Rogen, who plays one-half of the movie's stoner-hero duo, are allowed to soak up more of the spotlight than they deserve. It's possible that "Pineapple Express" is much funnier if you're totally baked. But the movie -- directed by David Gordon Green, the guy behind low-key (if self-important) indie hits like "George Washington" and "All the Real Girls" -- is so wayward and fuzzy that, for the unbaked, at least, there's very little pleasure to be had in trying to follow it. The thing is so desultory and aimless that it seems like work to try to laugh at it."

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 12:16pm

How anyone can enjoy Apatow's work is beyond me. The previews for this make me feel indifferent about the film, and I will not be wasting my money.

For the record, I do think Rogen has some talent, but it has not been able to shown much with the work he has done.

[Revolutionary]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 2:44pm

I'm seeing it tonight, and I'm more excited about this than I was about Mamma Mia! or The Dark Knight, lol...

[jlc6314]

Posted: 8/6/08 at 3:27pm

I'm also going to see the movie tonight, and am so excited! I hope it's as good as I think it will be.

[EVIE]

Posted: 8/7/08 at 12:08pm

I saw it last night and have to admit that I was laughing my ass off for pretty much the whole movie (and i was 100% sober too!). The only other Rogen movie I've seen was The 40 Year Old Virgin and thought Pinapple Express was much funnier. Lots of fun!

[jlc6314]

Posted: 8/7/08 at 1:00pm

I thought the movie was hilarious. I don't think I really stopped laughing for much of the movie, and there were some pretty great one-liners in there. The whole audience reacted to the movie in the same way, also, which made it that much more fun.

[James885]

Posted: 8/9/08 at 4:31pm

I saw it last night and thought it was a blast.

[fflagg]

Posted: 8/9/08 at 9:55pm

You'll love it if you are male and under 25.

The film starts out as a stoner comedy and turns into a Quentin Tarantino violent pic. This will do well at the b/o for 2 weeks and then will be a fine Netflix rental.

BTW, stoners do not have teeth as white as Franco's nor are they as buff. But this is Hollywood. :)

The most memorable thing about the film is the trailer to the upcoming Patrick Wilson-Samuel Jackson film. Looks like a candidate for the WORST film of the year.

[TMarie]

Posted: 8/10/08 at 5:57pm

I was always positive that I would never like movies like this. Anything that was remotely something that I felt my teenage boy classmates would quote for years I was always eager to skip. That changed when I saw Anchorman and I saw something other than the pure stupidity that people who don't like those films see. Ever since then, I genuinely enjoy movies like what Seth Rogen puts out.

I didn't like Knocked Up, but I have always had a weird thing about Katharine Heigl.

Pineapple Express was very, very funny. James Franco is always so lovely to watch. I laughed and laughed along with everybody else. I recommend it.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/11/08 at 4:11pm

Saw it the other night.

It was way overrated but still fun. Probably a half a star better than STEP BROTHERS.

I'd give it **1/2 stars. I also thought KNOCKED UP was overrated too but I loved SUPERBAD.

In my book, SUPERBAD is a ***1/2 star movie while KU and PE are **1/2.

Go rent SUPERBAD. It's just a better movie with way more laughs and way more heart.


And also, the entire last hour of the movie is excessively violent. For absolutely NO reason.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/11/08 at 6:45pm

I'm sure it has its share of ha-ha knee-slappers, but is anyone else weary of the sub-genre, and its archly set-forth bimboizatin of the American male? Everyone is in a post-adolescent fog, seemingly paralyzed by the onset of adulthood, present and accounted for only when high (and then, giggly and palpably disconnected -- more lobotimized than invested in the true exhiliaration of 'high,' by the way; and never inspired or prone to personal epiphany ... these movies, for all their celebration of the wonders of cannibis sativa, make the impact of weed look more like that of a double 'lude), playing macho video games that would bore a 12 year old, savoring toy collectibles, hot Stepford barbiedolls, hating bad jobs in electronics stores but mysteriously flush with just enough money to support all of the above.

Put these films in a time capsule, and they suggest the last 8 years were a kind of ice age for the IQ-ebbing male in this culture. I guess they were, but do we have to be subjected to so much homage to it? The doughboy Seth Rogan, always one step from a spit bubble, is the new archtetype? I think he's dangerously close to the sluggish hedonists 700 years in the future in WALLE, and that depresses the hell outta me.

Updated On: 8/11/08 at 06:45 PM