Thursday, December 10, 2009

Pineapple Express by David Gordon Green

Category: English

My reviews will continue to get more and more erratic this month as I try to find time since it's Christmas!

A stoner movie starring Seth Rogen wasn't something I was looking forward to but thanks to his superior supporting cast (James Franco of Harry Osborne fame in Spiderman, Danny McBride, Gary Cole) the film is actually watchable. So the movie has Seth Rogen as a process server and on one of his errands while smoking the wonderful Pineapple Express he ends up witnessing a murder and he immediately runs to his peddler (Franco). Little did all of us know that Gary Cole is a mob boss now out for Rogen's blood. He deploys two hitmen, one of them portrayed by Kevin Corrigan.

On the way running from the mob there's tons of faces they come across, they even pick up a 3rd member towards the end (McBride who refuses to die from gunshot wounds). The film oddly enough gets a little serious and violent towards the end and I couldn't figure out why. None the less this isn't the best cinema you can watch, but it's alright to watch it with friends.

Recommendation level: 2/5 - Purely because of Franco and the supporting cast.

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