Striclty for potheads

Rating: 6/10 (18 July 2009)

I'm not sure why films like this continue to be made in the new century, but so be it. PINEAPPLE EXPRESS is a very thin comedy about two loser potheads (Rogen and Franco, looking like River Phoenix) who get cross paths with killer cops, numerous gangsters -- and murder. They keep trying to escape but never manage to get completely away. In the end, they turn into a LETHAL WEAPON-style team, and not always for laughs. Some really violent deaths occur, but they are mostly over-the-top deaths. This would have been a Cheech and Chong film back in the 1970s. Not my cup of tea, but a best bet for all the stoners out there. Rogen, who I have heard of but am not familiar with, has a voice identical to Penn Gillette and looks like a young John Goodman. Franco is virtually unrecognizable with hippie hair and a scraggly beard.