In "Pineapple Express" the latest Judd Apatow produced comedy, co-writer Seth Rogan portrays a process server with a serious weed smoking problem and a high school girlfriend.
He witnesses a murder committed by a drug dealer he was about to serve on a civil case.
The rest of the movie finds him and his personal dealer played by James Franco in a role once considered for Rogan, fleeing the killer and the crooked cop who had been an accomplice.
The film has some undeniably funny moments in between the endless unrepeatable language, which becomes tiresome and an easy way to get a laugh.
But with Seth Rogan on screen you have a terrific everyman, a loveable schlep type who seems to know how to have his audience identify with him quickly and also with his foibles.
That's the key to his success.
There is objectionable scene after an objectionable scene in which Franco's character sells grass, called pineapple express, to a group of young high schoolers.
NBC’s Jeffrey Lyons has this to say, "Well the violence in this movie is sometimes shockingly gory and graphic. There was no need for that. And there is nothing funny about that either. This movie can't decide what it is trying to do and where it's audience is. Seth Rogan is always funny and James Franco is good in a supporting role, but this film needed a better screenplay.”
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