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Studio heads are so sure of Rogen's appeal that in addition to financing The Pineapple Express, which Rogen and Goldberg wrote, they've already made the kids' movie he wrote, Drillbit Taylor. And he's so excited that the studio is making Pineapple, his violent stoner action comedy, that he forces people on the set to touch the bloody prosthetic ear he's wearing. He is giddy about his on-set injuries (including a sprained finger and bruised ribs), and the explosive Butt-head-like giggle that punctuates everything he says betrays his excited nervousness. "After every single take...
Rogen's characters don't veer far from his real personality. In Knocked Up, he plays a stoner who scores a woman way out of his league on a one-night stand and gets her pregnant, and they decide to keep the baby. He's a self-conscious, cerebral John Belushi, constantly apologizing for his oafishness, desperate to be moral and liked. He is what optimists hoped Jim Belushi would...
...boring to us, not the kids. The Shrek movies have a nigh-scientific formula for the ratio of fart jokes to ask-your-mother jokes; Shrek the Third includes a visit to a fairy-tale high school where there's a Just Say Nay rally and a stoner-sounding kid stumbles out of a coach trailed by a cloud of "frankincense and myrrh" smoke. More broadly, each movie gives Shrek and Fiona an adult challenge: in the first, to find love and see beyond appearances; in Shrek 2, to meet the in-laws; in Shrek the Third, to take...
...just that, like the family of the man whose story it tells, there's so much of it: too many stars (including Elijah Wood and Lindsay Lohan, above right), too many story lines, too many messages. Laurence Fishburne offers wisdom over blueberry cobbler! Ashton Kutcher's a peaceful stoner! Helen Hunt's rich but sad! It's as if Estevez fears history isn't interesting enough...
...Anna Faris takes the lead: Known by younger audiences for her performances as ditzy Cindy Campbell from the Scary Movie franchise, and by attentive grownup filmgoers for her small roles in Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation, funny Anna Faris finally gets the screen time she deserves in the stoner comedy Smiley Face. Faris stars as a pothead actress sent on a series of misadventures after she devours some weed-laced cupcakes. OK, so director Greg Araki's picture is not a huge departure from Faris' spacey blonde cinema roots, but it is that rare physical comedy that stars...