What keeps the film so engagingly off-balance is the mix of perfectly pitched stoner humor and the visceral punch of the genre mixing...

| Aug 19, 2023

The quality of the content rises and falls like the ever present waft of marijuana smoke.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Given that Pineapple Express is undoubtedly a lot funnier if you're as high as the heroes when you watch it, its future cult status is assured.

| Nov 15, 2020

Franco is the true revelation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

Plenty of strong laughs for unimpaired onlookers as well, but be prepared for a jarring, violent finale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2020

Unfortunately, director David Gordon Green is never able to sustain any comic momentum... Don't get me wrong, "Express" is still good enough that I left entertained -- just not nearly as much as I hoped I would.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 29, 2019

Cheech and Chong have found new heirs apparent in the form of Saul and Dale, in a film destined to be a new stoner classic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2019

I admit I enjoyed Pineapple Express more than I expected.

| Oct 30, 2018

This is a baggy, pointless, tiresome film, which is also messy, puerile, cack-handedly gruesome and plain unfunny.

| Aug 23, 2018

David Gordon Green seems to have used this template as some sort of experiment... Green's method is like a stone-cold killer in a John Woo movie: He makes us laugh, then immediately shoots us in the face.

| Jun 7, 2018

The party got out of hand towards the end, and we probably should have booked out before we got too tired.

| Aug 24, 2017

You would have to smoke a great deal of the stuff to make Pineapple Express seem like a good movie, although from the assorted giggles at the Rio Theatre, the audience was ripped and receptive.

| Aug 22, 2017

High-ly recommended.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2014

Your love of it will largely depend on how funny you find a movie with 85 percent of the jokes based on smoking weed. For the rest of you a lot of it is going to feel very silly, crammed with potty humor and overly long for such a simple subject matter.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 6, 2013

Given that cast, crew and audience were and will be baked throughout, Pineapple Express just about earns itself a pass.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2012

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

This is possibly the first time a blackened, burnt corpse is played for laughs. It all flows by like so much sugar water.

| Aug 15, 2011

In the end, that feel-good factor overrides occasional moments of discomfort.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2011