By BADASSSSS

Pineapple Express
Directed by David Gordon Green
Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez
Rated R
Release date: August 6, 2008

I went into Pineapple Express, the latest collaboration between producer Judd Apatow and writers Seth Rogen (who also stars) and Evan Goldberg, with pretty good expectations. I came out of the theater nearly two hours later feeling as high as the various characters who smoke the rare strain of marijuana that gives the movie its title, only I didn’t have to light up at all. The sheer force of the non-stop laughs and wild thrills this boldly original take on the shopworn buddy comedy genre delivered made me feel like I had been hitting off a bong the entire time. I have a feeling the majority of the other moviegoers who were in the mostly empty theater on the cloudy Thursday afternoon when I saw this comedic gem were probably wondering what I was smoking, and also wondering if they could get a hit off that. It’s no drug baby, it’s Pineapple Express! The sensation was wonderful and I can’t wait to experience it again.

Dale Denton (Rogen) is a lowly process server who spends his days delivering court summons to ungrateful recipients and smoking copious amounts of weed secured from his affable dealer Saul Silver (James Franco) in between visits to his high school student girlfriend Angie (Amber Heard) and calling in to radio talk shows to extol the virtues of getting blazed on a regular basis.