
Lazy court-process clerk and 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 has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him--and... (Full plot summary below)
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Lazy court-process clerk and 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 has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him--and it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia: incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.
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| Film Journal InternationalEthan AlterFranco seizes the opportunity to reinvent himself after a series of bland turns in misbegotten star vehicles. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsSidesplitting, high attrition-rate, S&M slapstick where you get to savor the sight of characters getting tortured to death about five times each, if that's your bag of grass. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerThere's a lot less time available to get high than just laying low, for this chemically disoriented pair. Pineapple Express, a mixed bag of assorted fruits and nuts, with doper loons on the lam waiting to inhale. |
| MSNBCAlonso DuraldeUsually, the laughs disappear when the violence starts getting heavy, but Pineapple Express never ceases to bust the audience's guts, even when the characters onscreen are getting shot in theirs. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestDavid Gordon Green's hilarious stoner comedy is to action movies what The Big Lebowski was to film noir. |
| CHUDDevin FaraciThe aesthetic here isn't homaging 80s buddy action movies so much as just making one. It's MIDNIGHT RUN for the 21st century. |
| The eXileEileen JonesI admit I enjoyed Pineapple Express more than I expected. |
| CinematicalScott WeinbergEven if you wouldn't know weed from green wool, Pineapple Express works as a fast-paced buddy comedy with lots of laughs and a few hilariously unpleasant surprises. |
| Stop SmilingMark AschThe party got out of hand towards the end, and we probably should have booked out before we got too tired. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasAs loose and playful as major studio movies get. |