Pineapple Express Critic Reviews

Disappointingly, Pineapple Express is less than the sum of its ingredients, even if it's still a good stupid time at the movies.Read the full review

It's a quality movie even if the material is unworthy of the treatment. As a result, yes, it's a druggie comedy that made me laugh.Read the full review

It ends up subverting its own subversion, arriving at a place that can only be called conventional.Read the full review

In the role of dramaturge, Rogen and his co-scripter Goldberg lack Apatow's discipline and deft hand for peripheral characters; the writing in Pineapple Express gets lazy whenever it strays too far from its central axis of players.Read the full review

The humor in this movie is smart enough that even a moderate level of intoxication or inebriation is not necessary to enjoy it.Read the full review

You'll go limp from laughing.Read the full review

It's a funny, mostly harmless and entertaining film with a bad case of dry mouth.Read the full review

Laugh for laugh, Pineapple Express is way funnier than "Superbad." It may be the funniest mainstream comedy released so far this year (not that that means much when you've got "The Love Guru" pulling down your average).Read the full review

It's with that action aspect that Pineapple Express differs from Apatow's previous production output, and though, the words "taut" and "pulse-pounding" would never apply, the giddily over-the-top fight sequences, choreographed by veteran stunt coordinator Gary Hymes, handily compensate for the lag time.Read the full review