David Gordon Green has proven his ability to direct an array of films in different genres such as drama, horror and comedy. The latter applies here. Green helms an exceptional comedy. It certainly helps to have Rogen and Goldberg pen the screenplay. This film has excellent direction, screenplay, cinematography, special effects, soundtrack and acting. I don't recall hearing Eddy Grant's, "Electric Avenue" being played on the radio as much as it did in the early 80's after this film was released. This film has a plethora of comedic artists as cast members who all deliver splendid performances. In particular Rogen, Franco, Robinson, Heard, Cole, Hader, McBride and Corrigan stand out. As a matter of fact the entire cast is spot on in their timing, delivery and portrayals. The plot revolves around a stoner process servicer, Dale and his weed dealing stoner best friend, Saul. Dale has to serve papers to Saul's dealer and witnesses the dealer murder his competitor. Dale leaves behind evidence that the dealer immediately recognizes as Pineapple Express. This ignites Dale and Saul running for their lives while being pursued by assassins and corrupt police. The plot is hysterical, violent, riotous, action packed, boisterous, vivacious and has a rib-tickling ending. There are many hilarious scenes in this film. Some of the scenes are when underground military secret testing on marijuana with Private Miller takes place; when Saul explains the evolution of Pineapple Express and the engineering of the cross-joint; the fight at Red's apartment; Saul's chase with the police in hot pursuit; the bombastic fully loaded explosive showdown and the breakfast at the diner. There are also many side-splitting quotes in the film. To this day you'll hear fans of the film quote Dale saying, "You've been served" or General Bratt screaming, "We have a final decision on Item 9. ILLEGAL!". The film is like an embodiment of the peaceful counterculture meets the violent underworld. This is a loveable, memorable and sublime comedy that is a treat to view stoned or not.

It's been awhile since I watched this movie so I figured it was time to revisit it! It doesn't matter how old you are, weed jokes are always funny! And this cast just seems to get along so well together that it seems so plausible and they have so much fun working together you can tell that you just get immersed and can't help but laugh and it can make any bad day better! James Franco, Seth Rogen, and so many more big stars are in this movie and some of them only for a moment or two, and it all just meshes so well that even now that I know that they improvised quite a few lines it even goes to show that the script was written so well that it allowed for the creative nature of the actors to shine through and make it even that much more believable! And enjoyable!

So this is where I go into the positives and negatives before I spouted off too much and gave away any spoilers LOL! So for the positives, the cast was amazing! They could not have chosen a better cast! When Rosie Perez was a crooked cop, she was so completely believable but if you had told me that she was going to play a crooked cop, I would have told you you are nuts! And that's just the starters, the script that was written was just so perfect that it allowed these people to be able to step out of their comfort zone of the types of characters they normally played and become something different and make it their own! The cinematography was great, especially at the end and I'm not going to say any more about that. The writing and the script as I've already said many multiple times was completely amazeballs! I very seldom give anything over 6-7 Stars, the movie has to work hard to earn a good rating because there are very good movies out here that deserve good ratings and I don't want a mediocre movie to be given the same rating as something that was so great that it actually deserved the good rating! So for negatives, the only thing that I have is that about in the middle for about a half an hour things kind of dragged where was like come on let's get to the point. You as the viewer kind of knew what the deal was already and you are wondering why the characters were making the moves they were making because they should know what the next move should be, and you kind of get frustrated because they were acting like idiots. But eventually the movie catches up and gets back on track. And I figure if that's the only issue with the movie, they still deserve a 9 out of 10 because the rest of the movie even at the worst blows away almost every other single movie I've been watching lately! I love this movie it's always been one of my favorites, I'm sure in about another year I will probably watch it again, I just like to let a little time go in between viewing of my favorite movies because then there's a little bit of that forgetting and enjoying remembering when you see it!

So to summarize, everything about this movie is incredible the only thing that's bad is a slight section for about a half an hour where it drags its feet just a little bit, but I can say with absolute certainty that Dark Angel endorses and approves of this movie! \m/

I saw this movie originally in theaters twice, actually crazy to think its been 11 years since even then I was super duper excited to see this "Dopest dope" it's like "Gods Vagina". I absolutely love this feel good movie probably seen it well over 20 something times, just haven't reviewed till now. So much of it is funny, entertaining and very memorable! I love every cast member especially Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson are my favorites; perfect comedy to me.