If the guys from "Superbad" smoked too much weed in college, never got their diplomas and continued to find themselves in absurd situations, they might grow up to become the paranoid pothead trio in" Pineapple Express" (* * * 1/2 out of...

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Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the...
Machine-gun bullets reduce human beings to bloody, inert rag dolls; a man’s ear is gruesomely severed from his head, and his best friend frantically struggles, in extreme close-up, to reattach it; and, um, two guys get really, really high smoking...
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In its gleefully befogged first hour, " Pineapple Express" seems to be onto something new: It's a marijuana comedy that keeps shuffling genres, like a stoned blackjack dealer. James Franco is blissfully funny as Saul, the supplier who finds...