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Aug
07
2008
Todd’s Thoughts On PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
Posted by Todd Brown at 6:28pm.
Posted in Film News , Comedy, USA & Canada.
It’s got a bunch of hysterically funny stuff in it and yet left me wanting more and I can’t quite decide whether director David Gordon Green - a bizarre choice for this sort of film on a few levels - is its greatest strength or it’s greatest weakness. Check that - James Franco is clearly the film’s greatest strength so Green could be, at best, number two. It’s new stoner-action comedy Pineapple Express and it’s the subject of my column over at Showcase this week.
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kungfueurotrash 08/07/2008 @ 8:25pm
I think Pineapple Express is better than Dazed and Confused…
iacus 08/07/2008 @ 10:48pm
David Gordon Green directed this? I had no idea.
Kurt Halfyard 08/08/2008 @ 5:11am
The movie goes beyond shaggy at times, into down right stupid territory. The whole sideplot with Amber Heard could have been 100% excised, because Heard is terrible, and her parents (played by two actors I like, Nora Dunn and Ed Begly Jr. is strained at best). Also the Asian drug-lords are thrown in there just for fodder in the final scene, and thrown in clumsy at best.
You didn’t mention Red in your review, Danny McBride may be the most unrealistic vessel for pain tolerance, but nearly every scene with him around is pretty inspired comedy. The character interactions in this movie are great, everything else, not so much.
Swarez 08/08/2008 @ 8:29am
Sounds great.
Incidentally I’ve been hooked on M.I.A’s song Paper Planes that played in the trailer for this film.
WorthZero 08/10/2008 @ 10:58pm
I really enjoyed this movie even though i tend to really hate stoner comedies. The great thing about this film is that it’s really a fun action movie disguised as a stoner comedy. It also has one of the best fights I’ve seen all year. If it wasn’t funny then it would have felt really painful.