SummaryLazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: 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 and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now... Read More
Directed By:David Gordon Green
Written By:Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Judd Apatow
Pineapple Express
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Generally Favorable
64
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Generally Favorable
7.3
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91
As loose and playful as major studio movies get.
80
The movie is jampacked with jokes, sight gags and set pieces guaranteed to appeal to the audience's sense of the preposterous.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
72% Positive
183 Ratings
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25% Mixed
65 Ratings
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3% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Dec 12, 2025
10
Peak high movie, dis shi hella funny n it got Seth Rogan n whoever played harry in the Toby Maguire spider man movies so I mean Thas all you really need to know to know is a good movie
Jul 9, 2015
10
The David Gordon Green directed "Pineapple Express" tells the story of Dale Denton (Rogen) and Saul Silver (Franco), two pot-smoking friends who end up becoming deeply involved with a gang ruthless drug dealers. Now, I had always heard "Pineapple Express" was a brilliant blend of genres, and that's what it is - a great stoner comedy that successfully blends buddy-action elements into it's story. The script was hilarious, as it's written by Seth Rogen himself and fellow successful screenwriter Evan Goldberg. The comedic elements written into said script ,although low-brow and often dark, came off as very breezy and ended up being one of the key factors of appeal for the film. Though the best part about the film, for me, was the really believable chemistry between James Franco and Seth Rogen. The two have worked together before on the cult television series "Freaks And Geeks", and their real-life friendship transfers very beautifully on film. Surprisingly enough, the movie also featured a sufficient amount of thrills and action - especially towards the end. Overall, I found "Pineapple Express" to be a delightfully funny buddy-stoner-action-comedy that brought the laughs and surprises in shovelfuls.
75
Like the film's giddily intoxicating cannabis hybrid, Rogen and Goldberg's script cross-pollinates Cheech-and-Chong style stoner comedy with Tarantino-esque ultra-violence.
70
It's with that action aspect that Pineapple Express differs from Apatow's previous production output, and though, the words "taut" and "pulse-pounding" would never apply, the giddily over-the-top fight sequences, choreographed by veteran stunt coordinator Gary Hymes, handily compensate for the lag time.
63
Around the midpoint, Pineapple Express falls apart and keeps falling, and the comedy, spiced with considerable, unevenly effective violence in that first hour, goes out the window, and in comes all the gore and the bone-crunching.
50
But it IS a movie about dopes: goofy guys, born without the ambition gene, and who would not survive a minute in the drug world, or the real one, without the guardian angel of a scriptwriter hovering to think them out of scrapes.
40
It's empty and formulaic, with plotting that's lazy even by stoner-comedy standards. Without all the yuck-o sight gags, it would be a huge bummer.
Aug 9, 2014
10
THIS IS MY FAVOURITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME. Saul is my favourite character of all time and the final battle sequence is my sequence of all time. 10/10 would recommend.
Feb 5, 2013
6
While offering a few laughs, this is in no way a great comedy. Most jokes are too one-sided, they're always about smoking weed (which is of no surprise considering the plot, but still, not all of them are even funny) Besides, the movie boasts some well-filmed (and actually funny in a way) action scenes. In other words, a mediocre comedy, but still worth to watch it once and forget forever.
Sep 27, 2019
5
The first half of this movie is hilarious. Unfortunately, it completely runs out of gas and the second half is unbelievably dull and drawn out. If it had been half its length, this could have been a very good movie.
Mar 31, 2021
2
I didnt see any jokes, it is just a dump movie with bad actors. And the story is also stupid
Aug 27, 2010
2
seriously, even high, i can't imagine that the forced interaction and humor will be more entertaining than this pathetic playoff as a substitute movie. it's kinda like the appetizer to a supper that replaces a grand meal - which, in itself, questions it's merit as a piece of cinema..... so why do people like watching this???? There are so many better stoner movies out there!
Production Company:
- Columbia Pictures
- Relativity Media
- Apatow Productions
Release Date:Aug 6, 2008
Duration:1 h 51 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Put this in your pipe and smoke it.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 6 Nominations
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 2 Nominations
