Pineapple Express

"Put this in your pipe and smoke it."

2008 1h 52m EN

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6.6

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★6.6TMDB · 4,348

ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

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A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

“Put this in your pipe and smoke it.”

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Cast

Seth Rogen
Dale Denton
James Franco
Saul Silver
Gary Cole
Ted
Danny McBride
Red
Rosie Perez
Carol
Kevin Corrigan
Budlofsky
Craig Robinson
Matheson
Amber Heard
Angie Anderson

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: David Gordon Green
Writers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Judd Apatow
Languages: Cantonese, Korean, English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.8× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 18 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Cantonese, Korean, English.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by David Gordon Green, shot by Tim Orr. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Graeme Revell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Craig Alpert shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Seth Rogen and James Franco and Gary Cole carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Put this in your pipe and smoke it.".

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The take

David Gordon Green directs. Tim Orr behind the camera. Graeme Revell scores. Craig Alpert cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Cantonese, Korean, English.

Trivia

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1Made its money back 3.8× over at the box office.
2Released 18 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 3 languages: Cantonese, Korean, English.
4Directed by David Gordon Green, shot by Tim Orr. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Graeme Revell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Craig Alpert shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Seth Rogen and James Franco and Gary Cole carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Put this in your pipe and smoke it.".
9IMDB entry: tt0910936 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 10 themes, including "smoking", "witness", "cannabis", "marijuana".

The technical file

Cinematography: Tim Orr
Original score: Graeme Revell
Editing: Craig Alpert
Production design: Chris L. Spellman
Costume design: John Dunn
Makeup / hair: Erin Wooldridge
Sound: David Giammarco
Stunt coordinator: Gary Hymes
Runtime: 112 min · 1h 52m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $27,000,000
Box office: $101,624,843
Return: 376% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Pineapple Express (2008)

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David2020-02-09
★ 8/10
When it comes to comedy, I'm like a patchwork. My favourite kind is the one I grew up with which is the Looney Tunes cartoons. I can watch them over and over again, and I will always laugh. I also love dark British humour, slapstick, and wait for it.... American. American humour (especially these days) gets derided, most often due to it being "dumbed down" so the collegiate set can understand it, often using toilet humour as its best punchline. I somewhat disagree, I say that the humour people use between themselves is what drives movies made by Judd Apatow & co. Take Pineapple Express for example, this movie seems on some level to be fairly realistic. I use that term very loosely, because of course many things that happen in this film, could, and should never happen. Anyhow, the comedy, the dialogue, the fight sequences, and other interactions between the characters are the reasons I think make it feel this way. The fight sequences aren't ones that I could say seem all that choreographed, of course there are "X" spots they need to hit, but for the most part I think it is done on the fly, or like much of the comedy, improvised. Pineapple Express follows the story of a process server Dale Denton (Rogen), & his pot dealer Saul Silver (Franco), as they avoid henchmen (Robinson & Corrigan) of Ted Jones (Cole), Marijuana kingpin of L.A. after Dale witnesses a murder Ted commits. With a corrupt cop on the take (Perez) also on the hunt, staying alive for the buyer & supplier turned stoner buddies becomes an adventure of friendship as well as appreciation of the relationships built by people in this lifestyle. The name Pineapple Express comes from the name of the variety of weed Saul introduces to Dale. I enjoy this movie because of the old fashioned approach taken to deliver the laughs and the story, and the characters feel very relatable to almost anyone on some level.
Kamurai2020-09-20
★ 6/10
Decent watch, probably won't watch it again, but can recommend. I'll be upfront, while it's not really for me, I think most people will enjoy this movie, if for nothing else, then the idiot banter. Franco's a good actor, but sometimes he and Seth put too much of themselves in the movie, and it gets worse when they're together on screen. This basically looks like they just took what they do hanging out on a Friday sometimes and put it on screen in places, basically anytime the action dies down and they start to lean into the lull. The first story that gets interrupted by the main plot, could easily have it's own movie, romantic comedy or drama: an older man, legitimately and legally dating a high school girl has a LOT of situations to it, and has amazing potential. Once it gets interrupted by the "on the lamb" trope, I would have honestly thought it would disappear as it would in most movies, or at worst, she would show up looking for him or to get something from his place and get abducted. The re-return to the original story line is almost funny enough itself in concept, but in actuality I just end up waiting to get back to the movie, and they do things like that throughout the entire movie. It is conceivable when things are happening to the main characters that derail them, but when they're actively derailing themselves, then it just gets sad. You start to question things that you shouldn't, and it's not even because they're high, as they directly have a conversation about how the weed is really bad for them, given everything that is happening. I'm not a fan of drug humor, or abuse humor (usually), and everything that isn't that is so ridiculous that it's hard to like. There are good jokes woven in here, but a lot of this is "I wanted to make a movie with my buddy while we act like idiots", and as a fan of Kevin Smith, I respect that, but that should put you in the frame of mind that this isn't a top tier movie, and Kevin Smith writes better dialogue.