Holy c***! Holy hilarious movie! It's like God's vagina!

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2008)

Basically when I heard for the first time about this movie it became kind of part of the "must wanted" movies for the rest of the year. I never knew when was going to be its theatrical release in my city that was finally last Friday (10 October 2008). I really wanted to watch for the first time a movie from the Apatow team on the big screen (I wanted to watch Step Brothers but now it's too late, it is not more in mi city) and yesterday I really enjoyed Pineapple Express, probably one of the funniest things from this year and definitely one of my personal favourites.
Now I basically recognize all of the "sons" of Apatow and immediately Bill Hader, one of them of course, provokes the first laughs. Hader is simply great; I don't really watch TV so I never had seen an entire Saturday Night Live episode so in consequence I only know Hader for his film roles but with that I can say I'm fan. In this film he doesn't share the screen with his cop partner from Superbad, Seth Rogen, however his character shares one little thing with Dale Denton, Rogen's character, and that of course has in marihuana the key factor. Now we move the present days with Dale, again Rogen seems to be playing the same role however that really doesn't bothered me at all mainly because once he is together with James Franco's character everything is fun with these two guys who are in their own thing and who really enjoy and love that thing. By reading some stuff about this film I realize about the fact that Rogen originally wanted to play my favourite character of the film, of course the character of Franco, Saul Silver, but they really scored by casting James Franco who is just hilarious as the charismatic stoner that Saul is. The first sequence with Dale and Saul together resumes everything, these two sees each other only for one thing but always we knew that there was some "special", after all Saul gave only to Dale the vagina of god formerly known as pineapple express. They can make the other feel better, Saul could make that Dale felt better by reminded him of the beautiful girl he has and the awesome job that let him smoke many joints and Dale could make that Saul felt better just by reminded him that his job actually consists in selling drugs! But even with this they were only vendor and client and of course there will be one motive to make of these two a "team", a "team" that will need to fight for their lives.
Pineapple Express turns to have many hilarious fights that seem to be really painful for the protagonists. Since our stoner heroes are being chased by a really powerful drug lord (played by Gary Cole) is obvious that some very dangerous and cold men will try to end with our heroes. And here we have another "team" (played by Craig Robinson and Kevin Corrigan) that also have their moments of great fun. And where are the cops when our heroes and specially the persons close to them need them? Well, writing that one of the right hands of that powerful drug dealer is actually a policewoman (played by Perdita Durango (!) also known as Rosie Perez) is just enough to answer that question (f*** the police!!). But not all the cops are like that bitch and eventually our heroes will find another policewoman who really can help them but why they need her if the actions of hero Saul are enough? Well that is something that only Saul believed and eventually his hilarious actions (Saul breaking the windshield of the patrol!!!!) will make that our heroes will follow their own way to finally meet again to be buddies again and to survive to many explosions between a drug war in place full of drug!
By the end we have a rally terrific and hilarious scene in which our three heroes (damn I didn't mention the hilarious character that Danny McBride plays. His name is Red, he is the connection between that powerful drug dealer and our hero Saul and he starts being a traitor, he just wanted to save his own ass no matter of the consequences however he ends being another damn hero who practically is like a cat with nine lives!) are talking, and laughing, about all the unbelievable things that happened during their crazy adventure. Is like a really hilarious resume of the movie, a movie that I would like to add to my collection. Probably my third favourite from the Apatow Team. 9.5 out of 10