Pineapple Express

Who:  Amber & Jonathan
What:  Pineapple Express
Where:  rented from Blockbuster
Why:  We both wanted to see it

I'm a Judd Apatow, gross comedy movie fan.  This movie wasn't his typical lots of swearing, 'maybe this should be rated more than R' type movie.  It was really, really funny, but it wasn't openly funny.  It seemed like all the characters were just winging their dialog.  A lot of random stuff was said under their breath.  I think if I saw this movie a 2nd or 3rd time, it would be even funnier b/c I would hear more stuff.

Dale (Seth Rogan) is a process server.  He drives around and hands out court appointed papers.  It's an easy job that allows him to drive around and do the 2 things he loves:  smoke weed and listen to AM talk radio.  He's been recently buying weed from Saul (James Franco - almost unrecognizable from his Spiderman roll).  Saul was a weird character.  He seemed pretty intelligent, and he loves his grandma, but he's also a drug dealer and kind-of a moron.  Regardless, his Jaws t-shirt from the '80s and his Zumba pants.  (if you're a football fan, you know what I'm talking about!  Actually, they're not really Zumba brand, but they have that Zumba feel to them).

As Dale drives out to a big house to serve some papers, he sees a cop and a guy shoot somebody.  He freaks out, drops his weed (he's smoking 24/7!) and drives away (hitting the cop car in the process).  Unfortunately, the guy who murdered somebody was the head drug dealer in town.  Even more unfortunately, the weed he dropped was the infamous Pineapple Express weed.  Only one dealer in town had it - Saul.  So now Dale and Saul are on the run!  They can't go to the cops, because they are in on it!

The rest of the movie shows them on the run for the next 2 days, until the big showdown in a huge drug warehouse.  Dale and Saul are unlikely heros, but they manage to come out ok.  See this movie for the hilarious banter between Dale and Saul, for Dale's hilarious girlfriend, and even more hilarious father of the girlfriend!

One big bummer - that snazzy song from the previews is nowhere to be found.