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Pineapple Express

Clearly, this movie was made to be enjoyed only while high. Otherwise, it’s the Pineapple Depress.

• Premise

While there were some good moments, the fundamental flaw right from the beginning was the tone. Seth Rogen and James Franco were comic elements thrust into a world of…other comics. Pretty much all the secondary characters- the hitmen, the druglord, the cop, etc.- were caricatures, and two similar parts don’t blend together to create a fun mix.

This movie would’ve been much funnier and smoother in the style of Analyze This, where the comic element (Billy Crystal) was thrust into a largely serious world of the Mafia. (While DeNiro and his cohorts were comical at times, most of the humor was from the juxtaposition of the two worlds. The movie would’ve been lame had DeNiro and the guys played it as a spoof.) So in Pineapple Express, imagine if all the secondary characters had been the straight men for Seth and James to bounce off of.

In other popular words: the main character(s) should be an extraordinary person in an ordinary world or an ordinary person in an extraordinary world.

Structure/Plot, Logic

Act 1 had an unbelievable flaw. Seth and James ran out of James’ apartment rightfully fearing the druglord could’ve traced them to the murder scene. Shortly after, they spoke about a new character, that dopey middleman, and figured he would know what’s going on. This was so stupid…awkward to introduce a key character that way, abrupt for the story to step back just as it was racing forward, and mind-bogglingly illogical that they thought it was safe to go to his house.

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