Pineapple Letdown.

So last night Derrick and I went to the screening of Pineapple Express, which is the newest cut in the growing and increasingly awesome Seth Rogan anthology. Having been drawn into discussion on a local message board and given the day to think about the movie, I have to say that it's largely a letdown and mediocre at best.

It's strong points lie in the casting and supporting/almost cameo roles. My favorite characters were the black hit man who dressed and acted like he was out the 80's. And Dale's (Seth Rogen) girlfriend's father, who might have blurted out the best line of the movie, something along the lines of "If you don't move your ass I'm gonna fuck you in the street." However, both of these characters were sorely underused. There were a lot of lines given to the opposing hit man (played by Kevin Corrigan, the party host in Superbad, who was also pretty funny with his continuity of wanting to go home to see his wife for dinner), and the father could have easily been used more when the girl's family was held up in a motel room.

Some other little nuances I also found fairly amusing (enough to comment on) was Saul's shirt for the majority of the movie (A shark eating a kitten), and Red's haircut.

My main gripe with the movie was that the plot was just super unoriginal and weak, (underachieving stoners get in too deep with serious drug dealers/the authorties). I mean, edge aside, do we really need another burnout movie based on weed starring up and coming comedians? My generation was well suited early on with Friday (the best movie ever), and then Half Baked (also DVD owning caliber). Before my time was Cheech and Chong... and I'm sure there was others.

Also, the movie was too long (2 solid hours) for it's genre. The only benefit allotted by the length was that I was starting to pick up on some of the stereotypical humor from people who have serious weed habits that probably otherwise would have gone over my head. Apparently stoners get wicked sensitive in crucial and dire situations? Tell me if I'm off mark and that's just something put in the movie to make it quirky and weird. Either way, it was a little funny, but not funny enough given the example after example.

Bottom line, take your ten dollars and go see Step Brothers or wait and check out the Rocker to see how that compares. Or, you can just go see the Dark Knight again (duh)