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This 2008 comedy is pretty funny, though it’s rather crude as it deals with drugs. The screenplay is written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Seth Rogen also plays the main character, btw. Pineapple Express is the name of a drug combo that’s pretty “dangerous” to the brain. You can see stupid actions done by those people who have smoked Pineapple Express in this movie. This movie is rated R for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence, so parents, beware!!!

However, since it cracks me up in many scenes, I’ll give this one a 7 stars out of 10. My fave scene is when two of the guys get into a “fist” fight and one of them pinches the other guy’s nipples (yeah, both of them). Then the other one bites the first guy’s ear. What kind of a fist fight is that? HA HA HA HA HA HA…But that’s what makes it funny anyway.

Remember, though: STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS!!!! STAY HEALTHY!!!!!!!!!!! 

The Story:

Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) is a marijuana addict. He works as a courier for court orders and he has a girlfriend who’s still in High School. He often visits Saul Silver’s (James Franco) apartment ‘coz he’s the drug dealer. When Dale visits Saul this time, he introduces him to Pineapple Express. They smoke marijuana together and then Dale goes out to do his work. He has to give some court order paperwork to Ted Jones (Gary Cole). While smoking Pineapple Express in his car outside Ted’s house, he witnesses a murder. Ted and a police woman shoots an Asian guy several times. Shocked and scared to death, Dale throws away his Pineapple Express and drives as fast as he can to Saul’s place.

After talking to Saul (who’s stoned), Dale finds out that the only person who’s dealing Pineapple Express is Saul and that Ted is actually the one selling the Pineapple Express to Saul. So now Dale realizes his mistake (when he threw out the marijuana) and he believes that they’re both in danger. In a panic, he tells Saul to get out of the house with him and run away to a safe place.

Funny, stupid incidents happen after this as both guys are sought after by bad guys. Thus begins the cat-and-mouse chase. The problem becomes more complicated as the bad guys find out about Dale’s girlfriend and Dale is trying so hard to keep her alive without sounding like a lunatic who tells the story about witnessing a murder and being chased by drug dealers. Who gets caught and who survives?

Here’s the trailer: