Pineapple Express is a 2008 action comedy stoner film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Producer Judd Apatow, who previously worked with Rogen and Goldberg on Knocked Up and Superbad, assisted in developing the story, which was partially inspired by the buddy comedy- subgenre. The film was originally set for release August 8 but was changed to August 6, 2008, in order not to conflict with the opening of the 2008 Olympics. It is approximately 121 minutes.
- Genre: Comedy
- Run Time: 112 minutes
- Country: United States
- Director: David Gordon Green
- Producer: Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson Writter: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
- Music : Graeme Revell
- Actors: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny R. McBride, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Amber Heard, James Remar.....
Complaining that a stoner comedy isn't coherent is a little like griping about the lack of white linen tablecloths at McDonald's, but "Pineapple Express" is so filled with verve and wit for much of its running time that it's depressing to watch it devolve into genuine foolishness and borderline incoherence in its final act.
Up to then, "Pineapple" proves a very amusing hybrid movie combining the not-quite-grown-up man-boy humor of the Judd Apatow breed with the judiciously artful directorial style of indie auteur David Gordon Green ("George Washington," "All the Real Girls"). There are wonderfully comic sequences of THC-inspired slapstick and reams of the crude verbal wit that is becoming a trademark of co-writer and star Seth Rogen. But the cheerfully small story grows too big for itself, and the film ends in forced humor and frankly head-scratching meta-comedy. It's a fun ride for a while, but it's one of those benders that gives you a hangover even before it's through.
Rogen stars as Dale Denton, an absolutely useless guy who works as a process server, dates a high school girl and drives around in his beater car smoking weed and phoning into talk radio shows. Vaguely he aspires to be a call-in host himself. But he's too high most of the time to do anything about it. After he scores some particularly potent pot (the titular Pineapple Express) from Saul (James Franco), a dealer who clearly wants to be his best buddy, Dale witnesses a murder. He races from the scene but accidentally leaves a clue; the killers, who are engaged in a gang war for control of the local drug trade, are able to track him back to Saul.
So Dale and Saul go on the lam, trying to keep their skins and get somebody -- the police, say, or another drug dealer, or Saul's grandma -- to help them. But they're so stoned and, as is clear by now, so stupid, that none of their plans work or even make sense. In the course of their frenzy they fall in with another dope-addled slacker, Red (Danny McBride), and it's all they can do to keep from killing each other before the bad guys do it for them.
As I say, there's great comic verve in the thing, especially in the early going. Rogen and co-writer Evan Goldberg have acute ears for the combination of self-awareness and apathy that defines a certain type of delayed adolescence, whether that's manifested in Dale's relationship with a girl who still goes to a school with lockers and home rooms, or in Saul's efforts to understand just what a process server does for a living. Rogen and Franco fit their characters perfectly, and they bring homey familiarity to their rapport with each other. McBride, who has worked with Green before and starred in "The Foot Fist Way" earlier this year, adds bizarre spice to the mix -- a strange, unfocused energy with a drolly Southern savor.
Green, whose homemade movies are like tone poems that feel as if they're fearful of linear plotting and even normal logic, crafts a clean, spry film with hints of artiness sprinkled into a generally straightforward tack. He certainly doesn't seem to have insisted on having things his way, and it was a wise choice.
All of this is to the good -- which is why it's a letdown when the movie lapses into a silly shoot'em-up climax and, stranger, a coda that plays like a sketch TV version of Pirandello. It doesn't exactly kill the picture, but it definitely reneges on the giddy, bobbing comedy of the earlier passages. Maybe Bob Dylan had a point when he declared that "everybody must get stoned," but somebody associated with "Pineapple Express" ought to have sobered up for a moment and taken a stab at ending it more aptly.....
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