We saw an awesome movie: Pineapple Express. I love it when we catch something that's just come out. Makes me feel like I'm still with it! Pineapple Express, like all the Seth Rogen movies, had me laughing so hard that I found myself doing strange things like slapping my thigh and holding my gut, the kind of laughs that can only be described as a guffaw. The movie, which was co-written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, was really a new genre: an action comedy. It was hilarious, but I was at the edge of seat.
Seth Rogen plays a gentle loser - a pot loving process server in his late twenties who dates a high school senior. Amazingly, their relationship is not disgusting, because he genuinely cares for his girlfriend and is somehow less mature than her. He just comes off as a lost goofball. He witnesses a murder while delivering a subpoena and becomes the target of competing drug gangs. He goes on the run with his drug dealer, an equally clueless James Franco who only deals drugs to keep his grandma Buby in a nice retirement home. I didn't think it was possible for him to be unattractive, but the grungy long haired drug dealer look is not hot, at all.I'm not doing justice to the movie as I write. It was just so perfectly random that it struck the perfect note. The dialogue was great. The fight scenes were funny - without being complete slapstick. The car chases were a riot too - everything was tinged with the random actions of people who are stoned.
In short, I highly recommend Pineapple Express. You will be very entertained.
3 comments:
I really want to see this movie! It looks so good. He was on the Daily show last week and that decided it for me. I can't wait to get to see it.
I had never even heard of it! LOL
I will probably have to catch it as a rental. Who knows, maybe we'll get a date night at some point soon.
Thanks for the review! :)
I was looking at seeing this movie, saw the preview and it did look very good! Thanks for sharing!
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