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

| Aug 23, 2018

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

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

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

Apatow's former confidence about not underestimating the intelligence of his audiences seems to have largely disappeared.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

No sooner did the woeful Step Brothers suggest Judd Apatow's comedy empire was starting to spread itself thinner than a banana skin under an anvil, he strikes back with this almost-classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The first half-hour floats by on a cloud of mildly funny lines ("couscous - the food so nice they named it twice"), but then slumps into a derivative action caper that's weirdly and unappealingly reminiscent of Eighties dross like Beverly Hills Cop.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The theoretically fail-safe team of the writer/actor Seth Rogen and co-writer/ producer Judd Apatow - the Knocked Up duo - deliver a funnybone- clobbering spree with more energy than wit.

| Sep 12, 2008

Pineapple Express has its fair share of laughs, but it's a fundamentally heartless and unlovable minor work from Team Apatow.

| Sep 12, 2008

Watching this without having got stoned first is like watching a 3D movie without the special glasses. There are a few moderate laughs (and a nice Jude Law gag) but the full-on gory violence is disconcerting and unfunny.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The problem about being hopelessly stoned is that you also become hopelessly boring. So it is here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

Fans of David Gordon Green, you may well leave feeling confused. Fans of daft laughs and James Franco, you're in for one of the funniest comedies of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2008

Never makes more than a surface impression, albeit a fitfully amusing one.

| Original Score: B | Aug 12, 2008

Watching Pineapple Express is like sitting dead sober in a room with a bunch of stoned people who are laughing uproariously. They're having a great time. You're not.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2008

Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills.

| Aug 8, 2008

At its sharpest, the script by [Seth]Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who co-wrote Superbad, recalls what made Superbad worth seeing: the sidewinding conversational riffs, the why-am-I-laughing? wordplay.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2008

A film that is at once elegant and sublimely silly.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 6, 2008

Never generates any big laughs, and the chase elements are so intentionally cliched they never take on a life of their own.

| Aug 6, 2008

Imagine Superbad, but with fear of drug-related homicide replacing adolescent sexual panic as the excuse for male bonding, and you won't be too far off.

| Aug 6, 2008

The swath of destruction these boys leave in their wake seems disproportionate to the prevailing mood of dopey fun.

| Aug 6, 2008