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When did you first meet the Judd Apatow crew...
Pineapple Express Directed by David Gordon Green; rated R; out now The Judd Apatow mob muscles into action comedy with this louche, lunatic tale of a process server (Seth Rogen, who co-wrote the script) and his marijuana dealer (James Franco) going klutzily on the run from druglords. It's the Two Stooges with guns, a car chase and some very dope dope jokes...
...critic's brain that goes soft, or just the movies he's paid to see? At this time of year, all films start blending into one: something about a comic book superhero with arrested-development issues who saves the world while making pee-pee jokes. Produced by Judd Apatow...
...promise to meet with his student girlfriend's parents. (Cf. Elegy, a romantic drama that has nothing else in common with Pineapple Express.) Finally, it's the third picture this summer, and the eighth in the past 14 months, that was produced, written or otherwise perpetrated by Apatow. Take a deep breath: Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard, Drillbit Taylor, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express...
...Working from Apatow's notion to graft an action-movie plot on a dope-movie premise, Rogen and Goldberg came up with a concoction that synthesizes the standard thrills of the first genre while exceeding the usual humor quotient of the second. Granted, that's not the toughest job, and Pineapple Express aims for nothing more than rowdy fun. Still, director David Gordon Green - who has made some terrific indie movies about isolated youths (George Washington, Snow Angels) and probably took this job cause he wanted to make a movie more than a handful of people would see - mixes...