Pineapple Express 8/10

Seth Rogan plays a stoner. The guy from Spiderman that plays Harry Osborn plays a drug dealer. The annoying boss guy from Office Space is the bad guy. Its got that one black guy from the Office in it too. Not Stanly. The other one that works in the docking place underneath. He's pretty funny in it. I guess that's mostly it. The story doesn't matter.

The plot is that these guys are getting high a lot and crazy shit happens to them. Its pretty crazy.
This is a standard stoner adventure comedy, which have a tendency to pop up every like 5 years and cause everyone I know to wet their pants over how fresh the humor is, even though its pretty much the same hat as the last stoner movie. Examples would be Harold and Kumar coming out 5 years ago, and Half Baked coming out 5 years before that.


The movie is actually pretty funny, if you arn't bothered by the positive portrayal of characters that use weed, which seems to actually be a problem for some since the imdb board are filled with anti-marijuana threads, but I still find it odd how fresh and new the movie fells when its just like every single stoner movie put out since Cheech and Chong got in the game.

 He's in this.

It starts by introducing the main characters in a standard slice of life scene where you have one guy standing around doing and saying crazy shit and the other guy being WTF?-you-crazy'd out by the craziness. Then more crazy shit happens and its pretty funny because the characters are all stoners and you think to yourself, "hey it would be fun to be friends with these guys in real life." At some point the story kicks in and you're like "Ok whatever." Then more craziness happens when crazier characters start to show up, and now its really funny, and you're think "I'v never seen anything like this before." And then the movie has to try and wrap itself all up by giving you some kind of ending that justifies all the craziness and you're like "Ok, this is still cool" even though deep done we all hate the endings of these movies and it more or less "same old shit" as the other stoner movies like in Half Baked when they are fighting that drug dealer guy that I always remember as being Samual Jackson, even though he's not, and I know that, but I can't help myself. Then you get the ending scene where the character are back to being who they are, maybe even better people in some way, and the movie ends. This one ends with one of the longest and stupidest scenes in a stoner movie, with the character talking about how much they are friends now, and because of how long, stupid, and pointless it is its probably the best ending a stoner movie could have.

Craig Robinson should be in more movies.

 
Still, the movie feels fresh, despite how much it really isn't, and I think a lot of it has to do with the budget for the movie. While Harold and Kumar always felt like a Dvd hit, and Half Baked was always a Comedy Central movie, because that's where we all saw it, don't lie like you went to the theater to see it, this movie feels like an actually... um, movie movie. And people actually saw it in the movie movie theater. So because of that, you get the feeling like, "hey, its a real movie with the stoner mentality" unlike Harold and Kumar or Half Baked, which don't count, because they aren't real movies, and I think that's where I was disappointed a bit.

The movie always sold itself as a action/thriller type outing but with all the funny craziness of a stoner movie added to it, kinda like if your favorite action movie lighted up and took itself less serious. It really isn't, but you watch it thinking it is, never noticing that its pretty much Cheech and Chong with Seth Rogan and the guy from Spiderman that plays Harry Osborn in it, and you say, "that was like nothing I've ever seen before wow!" By the time you actually reflect on it, its too late because you can't take that shit back!

The movie gets its name from weed. The movie is all about smoking weed

In the end Pineapple Express is the the most unique breath of fresh air type movie you will ever see because we all know what a big stoner you are and how terrible your memory is. Its hilarious and it has the guy from Spiderman that plays Harry Fucking Osborn in it, so don't even act like it doesn't. Your just being a jerk here.