Review of Pineapple Express (2008) by Jacob — 23 Oct 2014

Pineapple Express is really funny. A lot of the humor comes from Seth Rogan who does a great job with the material he’s given especially when he has to shout and overreact. James Franco is surprisingly funny too as the drug dealer and him and Rogan have good chemistry together.

I also enjoyed the other characters such as the cops. The best humor for me came whenever the film got really raunchy especially during the fight scenes, which were always really violent and gorey. If I were to criticize the film though there were a few isseus I had.

Red wasn’t in the movie a lot but that’s more the poster leading me to believe he would play a bigger role in the film than he actually did. Also, some scenes in the movie dragged and were not that funny and at other times the humor got a little too stupid for my tastes.

The film also does the annoying cliché where two friends get into an argument for no reason and then break up, which is annoying not only because of how out of nowhere the argument is but because you know what is going to happen they will mope and dope and then they’ll get back together.

Finally, the film was a little too similar to Evan Goldberg’s Superbad in that it features two guys who get into a jam involving them on a crazy adventure and on the run form the police, there is a side plot involving one or more hilarious police characters, police cars get destroyed, the climax features one character carrying another away from a building and there is emphasis on something that is considered wrong with Superbad’s being underage sex and Pineapple Express’ being marijuana.