Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Amber Heard | Director: David Gordon Green
Pineapple Express Movie News
Pineapple Express and "The Office" actor Craig Robinson was arrested June 29 in Culver City, California, and charged with three felony drug counts, according to TMZ.com.
Seth Rogen Was hilarious on last night's episode of Conan. He was quick witted and brilliant and had no hesitation promoting drugs, unlike Franco on last week's Letterman.
James Franco, Pineapple Expresss was on the July 31 episode of David Letterman. Dave promoted the movie by saying there's alot of explosions, stunts, car races etc. they never mention weed or drugs once. In the clip they show a kidnapping with guns and than they show the stupid yet classic dumpster scene. James Franco, sported a suit, clean cut hair and a shaved beard looked very different since he shot Pineapple Express. James Franco followed up Pamela Anderson. Rosie Perez, from Pineapple Express and Lipstick Jungle, was on Jay Leno last night.
Seth Rogan was at the July 30th Maxim party for his new flick, Pineapple Express, on the rooftop of the Solamar Hotel in San Diego where, 'spies' said, he was smoking a funny-smelling hand-rolled cigarette. One onlooker said, "He was told to put it out immediately or leave."
Seth Rogen confirmed July 27 during the Pineapple Express panel that he and pal Evan Goldberg have written an episode of “The Simpsons”. He said that the episode is about comic books and that the table read will take place in the next few weeks with production on the episode starting soon after that.
The smoking material in the baggie held up onstage at the MTV awards show in June was apparently provided directly from MTV itself. These legal buds were a poor fabrication, and they were apparently not smokeable at all. The legal bud smoked onstage in the cigarette, however, was an International Oddities product taken from the actual material used in the movie.
Seth Rogan also revealed in an interview that International Oddities legal bud products were used in nearly every scene of the Pineapple Express. The International Oddities line of herbal cigarettes and legal buds are so unusual that the company sometimes forgets the initial shock that the public expresses when they first learn about the legal bud products. Their customer reactions are quite similar to the amazement expressed by the stars in the front rows of the MTV Music Awards.
Montreal, Canada: Pineapple Express movie premiere - Seth Rogen says his experiences smoking dope as a kid came in handy when he played a stoner on the run in his new movie "Pineapple Express."
He says it also didn't hurt that he grew up in British Columbia, known far and wide for its prolific marijuana production.
"I'm from Vancouver, which I guess is research in and of itself," the 26-year-old joked before the premiere of the movie at the Just For Laughs Festival, which wrapped up Sunday.
"I smoked a lot of weed growing up and that was kind of one of the funny things about this movie in that we had never really seen a movie that dealt with our kind of everyday weed experience."
Seth Rogen, Pineapple Express, told the April 25 issue of Rolling Stone that he originally wanted a budget of $50 million but was only able to secure $25 million due to the drug-heavy subject matter.
He originally wrote the part of Saul Silver for himself to play, it wasn't until the table read of Pineapple Express that he realized James Franco would be funnier in the role of Saul.
With Knocked Up and the upcoming "weed-action movie" Pineapple Express (which premiered this weekend at Montreal's Just For Laughs Fest), is Seth Rogen getting a little sensitive about being, um, a "one-toke pony"?
"I don't smoke pot on the set all day. Not all day, anyway," the Pineapple Express star says when asked about his rep. "But to me, the fact that a character smokes weed isn't what I hang my hat on, necessarily. I mean, Arthur and James Bond aren't the same because they both drink." - Edmonton Sun
Sexy Pineapple Express star Amber Heard posed in this months issue of Maxim. "If everybody smoked pot, we'd wind up with a bunch of overeating, creative people who are cool with everything". - Amber Heard (Maxim Article)
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Pineapple Express Synopsis
Meet Dale Denton. Dale is a process server. His job entails wearing elaborate disguises while handing out subpoenas to his unsuspecting victims. He drives his own car, wears a suit, and has a girlfriend who’s still in high-school. Dale seems pretty content with his life, if not fairly indifferent to everything that goes on in it. There is, however, one thing that Dale truly does love in life: smokin’ weed. Dale likes to get high... a lot. Between handing out subpoenas, Dale usually spends most of his time sitting in his car, chain-smoking joints. Other than weed, Dale seems to have a whole lot of contempt for just about everything else. Take his dealer, Saul Silver, for instance. Saul’s a bit half-witted, messy, and has a head full of long luxurious hippy-hair. Dale has a hard time finding any value in a relationship with such a character as Saul beyond the business they give each other. In fact, he starts to feel very awkward whenever Saul seems to be displaying signs of friendship towards him. However, Saul likes Dale, and one night smokes him up some pineapple express, weed so good and so rare that Saul’s the only dealer in the entire city to have it. Afterwards, Dale goes on his merry way to hand out one more subpoena for the night. As he arrives at his destination, Dale finishes off a joint of the pineapple express in the car. However, before he even gets up, he sees a female cop pull up behind him and walk into the building. Moments later, gunshots are heard coming from inside the building. Through the window, Dale sees the lady-cop and the guy he was about to serve and watches as they shoot a man to death and paint (paint!) the walls with his brain. Dale immediately bolts, although not without causing a huge racket which immediately alerts the murderers inside. He makes it back to Saul’s only to learn that the man he was supposed to hand the subpoena to is the biggest drug lord in the city. He also remembers that he tossed the pineapple express roach out on the road before making his getaway. Knowing that they’ll most likely get traced within moments, they go on the run, with murderous drug dealers and the law on their tail. This summer’s Superbad ensues.
Pineapple Express Review (August 7)
I hear a lot of people labelling Pineapple Express as a “stoner movie”, and that’s quite a shame. Pineapple Express has a lot to offer to its audience, be they smokers or non-smokers. There are laughs to be had, points to be contemplated, and a whole lot of awesome. The great thing about Pineapple Express is that it is a movie about weed and stoners, but it’s not specifically for weed and stoners, unlike many movies that are held in comparison such as Harold and Kumar. The great thing about Pineapple Express is that it offers what’s probably the most realistic portrayal of stoners I’ve seen in any movie.
Pineapple Express neither bashes nor glorifies stoners. In most movies, pot-heads are very often represented as brain-dead and inactive. They’re slow-talking, glazy-eyed, and usually forget what they’re talking about halfway through a sentence. Other movies (i.e. Harold and Kumar) do the exact opposite, portraying stoners as the most successful and smartest people in the entire movie who always end up out-doing stereotypically moronic cops and “ignorant” non pot-smokers. They also never make any mention towards the negative consequences of smoking marijuana, because apparently they don’t exist. For once, Pineapple Express shows stoners from different ends of the spectrum without bringing up overdone cop or sober-judge stereotypes (if anything, Asians are the most likely to be offended by this movie). The characters are the key in this movie for this reason.
Seth Rogen and James Franco probably could not be more perfect for the lead roles. The thing that I like about Seth Rogen is that he knows how to apply his staple sarcasm and cynic humour without playing the same character as other movies. He applies just enough personality to give an even blend of Dale Denton with Seth Rogen’s cynicism instead of becoming a Vince Vaughn clone. Dale Denton is a very realistic portrayal of a guy who smokes weed as often as he does: he’s not stupid or slow, but he’s a bit haggard and very indifferent about life and other people. He smokes weed because it’s the one thing that spices up life for him. Saul has the characteristics of a much more stereotypical pot-head since he’s always pretty fried. Although he gives a first impression of being slow and stupid, Saul’s brain is simply a little bit haywire from being so burnt-out. He’s got some pretty crazy thoughts floating around in that foggy head of his, but he’s also good-natured and always means well. James Franco was well-cast for the role of Saul. I feel that most other actors would go for an approach that’s much more typical with this type of character: the loud and obnoxiously stupid approach. Think Jar-Jar Binks from the new Star Wars trilogy or the guy from Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy after he gets one of his heads cut off. Stupid characters in movies are usually not funny. However, James Franco knew just how far to push the half-wittedness (wittedness is indeed a word) of his character and when to pull it back. He made Saul a much better character than he could’ve been.
This movie is neither really against or for the smoking of marijuana. However, it does try to get a very meaningful message across to the audience, whether they smoke or not. This movie is very much about breaking down the stereotypes that exist between pot-heads and non-smokers. Not only that, but it takes care of many other glaring stereotypes often found in the media. Cleverly enough, the movie doesn’t do this with abundance of preachy dialogue, but rather simply through the development of the characters. A lot of the serious stuff isn’t said, but rather left to be implied, so that the movie doesn’t forsake its jokes and pacing with a long and serious discussion about stereotypes. The closest scene this movie ever gets to a down-to-Earth discussion is concise and ends in one of the most quotable lines of the movie (“Super-size it, bitch.” Trust me. Not so funny when you read it now, but the situation and James Franco’s delivery is perfect).
You don’t have to be a fan of marijuana at all to like Pineapple Express. My soberer-than-a-judge girlfriend (soberer is also indeed a real word) seemed to like it even more than I did. It’s unfortunate that marijuana content will get the movie labelled this way, because it always turns off people who simply don’t smoke weed. Let’s face it; Harold and Kumar is pretty bad if you’re watching it sober, and anybody who subjected themselves to this punishment would probably feel a whole lot of resentment for it. Pineapple Express is nothing like that. It doesn’t focus on constant low-brow humour while going absolutely nowhere. All you need to like for Pineapple Express is comedy. It doesn’t hurt to be a Seth Rogen fan either. Other than the 18A label, this is a movie for everybody to enjoy. Saying you won’t go see Pineapple Express because you don’t smoke weed is the basic equivalent of saying you don’t want to see The Dark Knight because you don’t dress up in a black suit and cape and beat up bad guys (and you should).
Pineapple Express Article
The following things are guaranteed to happen when you go see Pineapple Express:
1. A group of 16-year-old turds will proclaim how "fucking ripped" they are loud enough to ensure that everyone hears.
2. Someone will cup their hand around their mouth and yell "daaaammnn!" the first time a character whips out some bud.
3. Your high will wear off well before the previews are over.
Chances are, however, that the aforementioned symptoms won't sully your viewing of dope opus Pineapple Express, David Gordon Green's paean to gratuitous action flicks and the burnouts who love them/wished they were in them. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Superbad) have crafted a script that directs your attention onto the characters instead of the illicit cellophane-wrapped substance stuffed in their socks. Yes, it's a stoner flick, but rather than kowtow to the patently American genre, they've turned it on its haze-filled head by realizing that — whoa — many people don't find Cheech & Chong that funny.
Dale Denton (Rogen) ruins people's days for a living as an aloof process server, throwing on a menagerie of ridiculous disguises to infiltrate businesses and hit people with court papers. His need for a post-workday unwind leads him to PJ-pantsed superdealer Saul Silver, played by James Franco with surprising vim, all impenetrable vernacular, glassy-eyed inquisitions and robust chortles. The duo's early interactions will be a roar to anyone who's ever bought weed; the awkward, friendly-but-not-friends relationship between drugger and drugee — When can I leave? Am I obliged to stay? Is it chill if I bring X over? — has never been fully mined for its comic potential until now.
Dale gets hooked up with a sack of the titular herb, a strain that's so rare that Saul likens puffing it to "killing a unicorn." But after he witnesses a gangland slaying outside the home of kingpin Ted Jones (a sneering Gary Cole) — who happens to have the local Pineapple Express market cornered — paranoia kicks in, and Dale and Saul go on the run, a splendid militia of Judd Apatow associates (including a brilliant Danny R. McBride as middle-man Red) stumbling toward them from all directions.
Green (ha-ha ... green) doesn't have a whole lot to do considering the adept cast and script, but his clever treatment of shoot-'em-up tropes — shameless firefights, fistfights, car chases, and, of course, the ubiquitous gun-loading montage — makes things burn that much more evenly.
