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Features: DVD, Rated R, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
A new comedy from the creative genius of Judd Apatow (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Talladega Nights) follows a pair of druggie losers as they reach the top of the hit-list when one witnesses a mob murder and drags his buddy into a crazy flight from mobsters bent on silencing both of them permanently. Pineapple Express stars new sensation Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad, The 40 Year Old Virgin) and James Franco (Spider-Man 1-3), co-stars Rosie Perez (Do the Right Thing) and Gary Cole (The Brady Bunch Movie), and is directed by David Gordon Green.
"...jampacked with jokes, sight gags and set pieces guaranteed to appeal to the audience's sense of the preposterous." Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
"The laughs -- mostly crude, profane and drug-addled -- are almost non-stop." Claudia Puig, USA Today
"You'll go limp from laughing." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"As loose and playful as major studio movies get." Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club
"One of the most hilarious and engaging films from producer Judd Apatow's often inconsistent comedy factory..." Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Editor's Note
While it might sound outlandish to speak of THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS in the same sentence as CITIZEN KANE, in its own little neck of the cinematic woods the Judd Apatow/Seth Rogen comedy is perhaps just as groundbreaking. In fact, it's nearly impossible to think of another film that blends so seamlessly pitch-perfect stoner babble with high-octane action sequences. Dale Denton (Rogen), a process server with a weed fixation, witnesses a murder and turns to his dealer, Saul (James Franco), for support. The murderer is actually Saul's main drug supplier, and because of Saul's access to some extremely rare high-grade pot (called Pineapple Express) the two are quickly tracked down and put on the run. Like all Apatow/Rogen vehicles, the movie deals with the theme of men succumbing to adulthood and all the adjustments they are forced to make in the process. However, unlike KNOCKED UP and THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is just too wacky to offer any lessons. Still, there's more going on here than giggles and the munchies. Indie director David Gordon Green (SNOW ANGELS) brings a subtle auteur's touch to the proceedings, approaching the smoking scenes with his distinctively loose feel and giving the action sequences a wonderfully dated sheen that makes them look more like a fight from KNIGHT RIDER than the empty flash of 21st-century blow-?em-ups. It is Franco, however, who truly steals this movie--he hasn't been this charming since his days on FREAKS AND GEEKS. There's only so many ways to play a stoner, but Franco puts his own endearing, lovable spin on the type, portraying Saul as a kind-hearted, well-intentioned yet hardcore dope smoker. Rogen and Apatow have proven themselves a nearly unstoppable juggernaut; here's hoping they bring Franco along on the ride a little more often.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Deleted & Extended Scenes | | Dubbed: French | | Filmmaker & Cast Audio Commentary | | Gag Reel | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 5/26/2009 |
| Running Time: 112 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2009 | | Catalog ID: 24367 | | UPC: 00043396243675 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The script by Rogen and his SUPERBAD writing partner, Evan Goldberg, is a trippy wonder....Loaded with turbocharged action and nonstop giggles..." 08/07/2008 p.98USA Today
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Fans of SUPERBAD will enjoy PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. It's a similar sweet-silly buddy comedy where everything that can go wrong does....Rogen and Franco have great comic chemistry." 08/05/2008 Entertainment Weekly
"PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is a fitfully amusing tale of drugs and crooks....[David Gordon Green] brings the movie his own loping, run-on style, which turns out to be a perfect expression of the stoner rhythm." 08/15/2008 p.44-45 Los Angeles Times
"It's interesting to watch Rogen play the 'straight' foil to Franco's stoner clown....Rogen's unique comedy engine is oiled by the tension between the urge to veg and the need to act responsibly..." 08/06/2008 Premiere
"Green's first studio achievement shows he can melt into the material rather than dominate it. He enforces a flow to the dialogue that gives it an adorable silliness..." 08/06/2008 Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- "PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is the perfect companion-piece to SUPERBAD....The chemistry between Rogen and Franco is effortless..." 10/01/2008 p.50 Sight and Sound
"PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is a raucous, ribald mission comedy....As a stoner movie, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is a success..." 11/01/2008 68 Film Comment
"Fanboy wish-fulfillment, half-baked Beckettian verbal play, and endearingly unguarded bromance are smoothly blended in this David Gordon Green joint..." 11/01/2008 p.77 Hollywood Reporter
"PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is a drug-fueled caper that doesn't stint on chronically loopy characters and ridiculously funny situations." 07/19/2008 ReelViews 8 of 10
It has been said that the only way to truly enjoy a stoner comedy is to smoke a joint before watching it. Considering the quality of some of the movies wedded to this genre, I'm tempted to believe that. Thankfully, Pineapple Express is an exception. The humor in this movie is smart enough that even a moderate level of intoxication or inebriation is not necessary to enjoy it. Sure, some of the jokes fall flat and others never get off the ground, but there are enough genuinely funny moments to be found in the slightly-too-long 111 minutes to make it a pleasant way to pass an afternoon or evening. The primary audience for this film might be those who partake from time to time, but it's not the only audience...Pineapple Express is the movie that Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay could have been had it focused a little less on the scatological least-common-denominator humor...Seth Rogen has proven his comic chops recently, but James Franco, lately having spent a lot of his screen time in Spider-Man movies, is not what one immediately thinks of as a higher functioning Jay (as in "Jay and Silent Bob"). Then there's Rosie Perez as a corrupt cop, with a memorable and off-the-wall cameo for Ed Begley Jr. Pineapple Express is a little too long and the big action set piece toward the end is too bloated for an otherwise tightly focused motion picture. These aren't big complaints, however. In the end, the film is solid entertainment in the Midnight Run vein. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
"Pineapple Express" has all the elements you'd expect from the genre: male bonding, immature sexual desires, verbal scatology, formidable drug abuse, fight scenes, gunfire, explosions. Yawn? Not this time. It's a quality movie even if the material is unworthy of the treatment. As a result, yes, it's a druggie comedy that made me laugh...The heroes are a process server named Dale (Seth Rogen) and his drug dealer Saul (James Franco). Both are stoned in every single scene...Two teams have met to make this picture: the Apatow production line, and Green and his cameraman Tim Orr, soundman Chris Gebert, actor Danny McBride and others he met at the North Carolina School of the Arts. As always, even in their zero-budget first effort, Green and Orr use wide-screen compositions with graceful visual instincts, although you may be excused for not noticing them, considering what happens. The movie even transcends the usual chase, this time between two squad cars. To my amazement, I found it exciting and very funny, especially the business about Saul's leg..."Pineapple Express" is the answer to the question, "What would happen if a movie like this was made by a great director?" This question descends directly from those old rumors that Stanley Kubrick was going to make a porn film. Give it a moment's thought. And I suspect Green of foiling Apatow's vow to include at least one penis in every one of his comedies. This time, it's not a penis, but a finger, and a good thing, too. - Roger Ebert
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