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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pineapple Exress, 19 Nov 2008
The Plot
Part-time delivery man, part-time pot head Dale (Seth Rogan) is in trouble after witnessing a messy murder between two competing drug lords. He is traced by the killer (Gary Cole) - through the potent, pungent Pineapple Express marijuana - to his dealer Saul (James Franco), and the two go on the run, with the bad guys hot in pursuit.
The Review
The word `Broamnce', according to Urbandictionary.com is defined as `a non-sexual relationship between two men that are unusually close'. Although a relatively new word - from the same family as metrosexual and guyliner - it's been at the heart of buddy movies for many a year. From Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot, to Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards in Top Gun, to Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers, all have relied on the chemistry between their two main leads to carry off the film.
In Pineapple Express, Seth Rogan and James Franco continue this time honoured tradition. At the start of the film, they're merely customer and supplier. But by the time the credits role, after they've endured a night in the forest, a high speed chase in a police-car, and a final show-down in a `pot factory', the two are in separable. The chemistry between Rogan and Franco is natural, unforced and makes the movie.
Rogan, as slacker Dale, is playing the same Fuzzy Bear type character become used to seeing him playing - the good hearted loafer, with a girlfriend way out his league. It's Franco who is the revelation, as after seeing him play it straight and scowly in Spiderman and....well almost everything else he's done, it's great to see him kicking back as pot-dealer Saul. He's not an aggressive drug-lord, but a contented middle man, who spends his days laying about in `sweats' (yes, a very American work) waiting for the money to roll in so he can look after his granny. The world which exists beyond his couch is strange and confusing, which makes trying to keep ahead of the bad guys all the funnier.
The plot, as you'd expect, is paper thin - guy witnesses murder and then as to keep ahead of the bad guys to keep his head. But it's the fact the two stoners don't have a clue what they're doing or where they're supposed to go that keeps the laughs coming. What do you do exactly once you've got in the car and started to drive?
In the final showdown, the film does lose its way slightly, morphing from buddy/stoner comedy into an action flick parody. Turning the two leads into gun toting action heroes isn't in keeping with the rest of the film, but as a parody, it's on a par with Hot Fuzz, with some gruesome and memorable deaths.
The Verdict
There are some good laughs, but it's the chemistry between Franco and Rogan that makes Pineapple Express better than your average comedy.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Shame on you Amazon. And Sony are no better, 15 Jan 2009
Hey there.
I haven't seen the film yet but I'm reviewing the digital download 2 disc version as a package rather than a film. Just wanted to make that clear. I know what you guys are like.
Anyways, I was hoping to watch this film on the plane on the way to the states. I thought to myself "hey a digital download version? fantastic! The X-files was great and dead easy to use. This should be too!". But no. This "digital download" is about as much use as tits on a kipper.
With the ipod being the must have piece of kit nowadays you would have thought Sony would have admitted defeat and made their digital downloads available to ipod or at least for mac users.
No.
Instead, they have only made this available to p.c. users (What's the point? You can use the dvd disc), PSP users (The 5 of you that are left on the planet) and PS3 users (Again, The DVD disc works!). This should really be stated in the description of the product.
So before you look at this and think "oh i haven't got enough films on my ipod. And that Seth Rogen guy is always making funny stoner movies" think again my friend.
THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD WILL NOT WORK WITH YOUR IPOD.
There. Something amazon (and the DVD box) should have said from the start.
Love Ian
P.S. If for some reason you live in America and are reading this, ignore it. Sony made it work on your ipod. Brown nosers
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Digital copy does not work on iPod!, 21 Jan 2009
For me this was one of the best films of 2008, one of the funniest films I have ever seen, and I couldn't wait for it to be released on DVD.
I felt a bit let down though when I found out that the digital copy (one of the reasons I payed extra to buy this version) will not work on a iPod in the UK, funnily enough though Sony had no problems with this in the rest of the world.
This is a brilliant film, but if you are buying this for the digital copy make sure it will work for you first. It should work fine on a PC or PSP.
I didn't think it was fair to rate this badly because of my problems with the digital copy, so I have rated it based on how I feel about the film, and it's one you shouldn't miss.
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