PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (2008) ** Named after a mythical strain of marijuana, which of course reminds me of a mythical strain that one of my friends made up some decades ago: Yukon No-toke, so powerful that you don't even have to smoke it, you get high just being in the same room. No, I don't recall...the circumstances of his discovery are a bit...cloudy. In any event this movie catches much of what's humorous about being stoned in the first 15 minutes or so, all in good fun, poking around a bit at squares with lantern jaws, the stoners say some obscure and amazing things. But not even Cheech & Chong could run that routine for a whole movie with consistent and appealing imprecision and...I've listened to Cheech & Chong, I got stoned and watched Cheech & Chong, I've tried to remember how to quote Cheech & Chong while stoned, anyway these guys are no Cheech & Chong. And they try and turn it into an action movie ...um, dude, a stoner action movie? ....haha, what do they got, like, joints with machine guns and shit? Almost. It never entirely loses interest, but the modest charm wanes. There's really only a legalization message in there if you think about it extra and analyze matters, and who wants to do that in a movie like this, man?
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