Pineapple Express, written by Seth Rogen and others

Pineapple Express, written by Seth Rogen and others

Pineapple Express has some good parts, but it seems that the misplaced jokes and events are pre-eminent.

In fact, it is surprising to find James Franco nominated for a Golden Globe, in the same category with:

Leonardo DiCaprio for Revolutionary Road, where he gave an excellent performance or Sean Penn in Milk…these nominations were for drama.

Javier Bardem in Vicky Cristina Barcelona was many times better than what Saul Silver reflects on screen.

Evidently, the way to take this comedy is by trying to enjoy it, without making the effort to find themes and values.

““The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven...” – John Milton

Seth Rogen has contributed as a writer to this film in which he plays Dale Denton, a young stoner.

His appearance and persona are likeable.

Therefore, there is a positive trait here.

Let us try to find more.

There is some humor involved in the first part, wherein he delivers official papers to people of all kinds.

He enters an operation room, where he throws the envelope with the notice to the surgeon who is ready to do his job.

He buys drugs from a dealer called Saul Silver.

Silver is portrayed by the real life friend and capable artist James Franco.

This motion picture intends to combine humor with drama.

Therefore, Dale Denton happens to park his car, get the weed out and look at the house near to witness…

A murder

The killers are one crooked police officer and a drug lord.

They see Dale as he tries to get away from the “crime scene”.

Furthermore, Dale had been smoking a special product, a powerful strain of marijuana that is called:

Pineapple Express

The drug lord killer takes the thrown joint from the ground and he recognizes what it is and follows the lead.

Since this is rare, the murderer can send his ridiculous gunmen to question the intermediary and find the witness.

If not textbook thriller, viewers have seen this scenario before.

Only here it is meant to be humorous and the tough men involved make all sorts of mistakes and stupid acts.

Dale and Saul become friends but they are also preposterous in many of the things they do, like immobilizing adversaries.

At a certain moment, they sell the Express to…children.

The guard from the school catches Dale.

Maybe she wants to help, I am not sure on that point, but Saul interferes and jumps in front of the car the guard drives.

An accident takes place.

After this, Saul drives the official car, at times with a foot hanging out of the windshield of the vehicle.

Is this funny? The jury is still out on that.

There are fight scenes, between rival gangs, heroes and drug dealers that may have been intended to be thrilling…

Or maybe hilarious?