2008 · comedy · action · crime
Pineapple Express
Directed by David Gordon Green1h 52m2008
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
Our read: Pineapple Express (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · action · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- funny
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“You want stoner buddy chaos that escalates into surprisingly kinetic action.”
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