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Is it wrong to see a movie and want to get high throughout the entire film? Smoking pot has never been so cool, as Seth Rogen and James Franco star in Judd Apatow’s newest creation. From start to finish, this looks and feels like an Apatow film. It almost seems unfair to compare this and the previous Apatow films, because this was tagged from the beginning as an action/comedy, yet it still doesn’t seem to ever reach the levels that his previous films did. Even though it has minor flaws, Pineapple Express has solid dialogue that will be sure to keep you laughing the entire time - there’s certainly no question about that. 3
They might look something like Seth Rogen (”Knocked Up”) and James Franco (” Spider-Man”), who make an unlikely but appealing comic team. Rogen stars as Dale Denton, a cuddly knucklehead who livens up his job as a process server by adopting various disguises. Franco, hiding his good looks under a Tiny Tim wig of long, scraggly hair, plays Dale’s pot dealer, Saul Silver, an amiable wastrel with a sweet, almost beatific soul. 2
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But Pineapple Express feels most like another raucous entry in the canon of the Superbad pack of producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40 Year-Old Virgin) and actor-screenwriter Seth Rogen. Rogen plays Dale, a slacker-ish process server with an 18-year-old girlfriend (Amber Heard) and a pot habit fueled by his ingratiating dealer Saul (James Franco). 6
Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. 1
Standing center in all this is Seth Rogen, who in his own doughy way may be the Tom Hanks of his generation, a gifted Everyman with a knack for finding the real and the funny in the most common of situations. Springboarding to fame as the star of “Knocked Up,” Rogen then co-wrote “Superbad” with Evan Goldberg before teaming again with Goldberg and everywhere-producer Judd Apatow to write “Express.” 5
What Pineapple Express does deliver is a fairly simple movie about two stoners on the run from the mob. Seth Rogen is a process server named Dale who accidentally witnesses a murder. Scared, for some inexplicable reason he runs to the house of his pot dealer Saul (James Franco). The mob comes looking for both of them, and they take off. Sometimes that means engaging in car chases, sometimes it means hanging out in the woods. Rogen and Franco have instant chemistry together, probably fueled by their long personal and professional relationship. Special praise should be given to Franco, for finally abandoning the pretty boy image he?s been cultivating in his more recent films in favor of playing a grungy, disgusting loser. The male model thing never really suited him anyway. 7
Pineapple Express, the latest R-rated comedy from producer Judd Apatow. Seth Rogen stars as Dale Denton, a no-account schlub who spends his days as a process server, smoking tons of weed in between deliveries. His girlfriend, inexplicably, is Angie (Amber Heard), a high schooler seven years younger (and about 10 times hotter) than him. Dale?s drug dealer is Saul (James Franco), possibly the only person lazier than Dale. 4
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