a real piece of crap

Rating: 1/10 (8 February 2009)

don't see Pineapple Express whatever you do. I thought, "hey, stupid stoner comedy. it has to have some redeeming stoner humor that the stodgy reviewer didn't pick up on, right?" NO. It didn't. Stupidest movie I think I've ever seen. F*****g Terrible! Nothing redeeming about it whatsoever. You know those reviews where the reviewer wishes that they could have those 2 hours back, well, this is one of them.
I really pull for Rogen and hope he can pull something off again, of the caliber of superbad, but he needs to change his strategy or something, pull in some new talent. This was absolutely terrible.
I'm not even going to review the plot, because there wasn't one, and the add-hoc stuff that caused the characters to move from point-A to point-B, well, it was so unpolished and awful that it seemed like they made up right before they walked in front of the cameras. I can picture Rogen reading a bad review like this and snickering to himself, "hey, well at least I made umpteen million off of it. How do you like them apples? huh? huh?" but still, a couple more movies as bad as this and they'll start laughing him out of public places.
also, the first scene was the best part of the movie. it had the best acting, dialog, plot, setup, characters, casting, and it was shot in Black & White. Bill Hader is by far the most talented of this whole ensemble.