Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): 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 (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), 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. And it is. 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. All aboard the Pineapple Express.
I really liked the first half of this movie. I've never really been in to smoking pot and what not so usually this kind of stuff ends up not being that funny to me. I've also been pretty disappointed by a lot of Judd Apatow's stuff. Fellow movie fans will probably want to kill me for saying this, but I wasn't such a big fan of Knocked Up and Superbad last summer. I loved the 40 Year Old Virgin and enjoyed Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but wasn't that in to his two huge critical faves. All of that being said, Seth Rogen and James Franco were hilarious in the first half of this movie. Their conversations and on the run antics were great. Then, the movie took its eventually dramatic turn where the two of them parted ways and a lot of screen time was given to the bad guys who were so horribly overplayed (except for Daryl from The Office - he was the only non-annoying one). And they decided to throw the action credibility out the window with Danny Mc Bride getting shot over and over again but continuing to get back up. It was funny the first time, but then it was just plain silly. Luckily, the writers went back to the straight forward hilarious stuff to make you leave the theater still laughing though.
I'd recommend people seeing this if they are looking for a laugh because they were pretty big. The movie just seemed to drag out for a while there with the more actiony parts and the bad guys screen time.
