PINEAPPLE EXPRESS **

David Gordon Green is the director of this slacker action comedy starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny R. McBride, and Amber Heard. Rated R for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence, the film is one hour and fifty minutes long.

A lazy, stoner, process server (Rogen) visits his equally lazy dealer (Franco) to purchase a rare new strain of weed called Pineapple Express. When the stoner become the only witness to a murder (by Perez and her boss, Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Because the weed is so rare, it is traced back to him and his dealer and the dealer's supplier (McBride). Soon the bad guys are hot on their trail, trying to kill all three, while at the same time a rival gang is trying to kill the bad guys.

This would never be high on my list of "must see" movies. Having never had the slightest interest in drugs I simply had nothing in common with any of the players, which means I really didn't care what happened to them. There was, however, a fairly large group of older students who were laughing continuously at the on screen antics and seemed to enjoy the film immensly. To me it was boring and its stream-of-conciousness dialog got harder and harder to take as the film progressed. By the time the film was close to the end the violence level had risen to such an unbelievable level it was completely numbing. If you can relate to the characters in the film you might find this entertaining. I couldn't, and didn't.