Pineapple Express
for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence.
| Moral Rating: | not recommended |
| Moviemaking Quality: |
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| Primary Audience: | Adults Teens |
| Genre: | Crime Action Comedy |
| Length: | 1 hr. 51 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2008 |
| USA Release: |
August 8, 2008 DVD: January 6, 2009 |
using illegal drugs
“VOTING” FOR BAD MOVIES—Every time you buy a movie ticket or rent a video you are casting a vote telling Hollywood “That’s what I want.” Why does Hollywood continue to promote immoral programming? Are YOU part of the problem? Answer
How does viewing violence in movies affect the family? Answer
How do I know what is right from wrong? Answer
How can I decide whether a particular activity—such as smoking, gambling, etc.—is wrong? Answer
Are we living in a moral Stone Age? Answer
| Featuring |
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| Seth Rogen, James Franco, Bill Hader, James Remar, Gary Cole, Joe Lo Truglio, Amber Heard, Rosie Perez, Ken Jeong, Danny R. McBride, Craig Robinson, Mandy Henderson, Brian Scannell, Jeanetta Arnette, Peter Lewis, Rio Ahn, Jonathan Walker Spencer, Adam Crosby, Sam Carson, Tom McComas, Arthur Napiontek, Eddie Rouse, Robert Longstreet, Jourdan Lee Khoo, Robert Overmyer |
| Director |
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David Gordon Green |
| Producer |
| Judd Apatow, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson, Seth Rogen, Dara Weintraub |
| Distributor |
“Put this in your pipe and smoke it.”
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “This summer, the guys who brought you ‘Superbad’ reunite for the action-comedy ‘Pineapple Express.’ Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco — “Spider-Man”): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city’s most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene.
Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.”
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Who is SETH ROGEN?
Seth Aaron Rogen, age —Canadian film producer, screenwriter, actor and director
Faith: Atheism, raised in Judaism
Worldview: Evolutionism, Leftism, Socialism, LGBT activism / Parents: “radical Jewish Socialists”
Quotes from Seth Rogen
“I’m the person who writes most of my movies, so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.”
“Where I come from, ‘Communism’ is not a terrible word.”
“I’ll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That’s all I need to know.”
“To me all men are boy-men. I don’t know any man that’s actually mature.”
“When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior, and I haven’t moved one step forward since.”
“It’s my mission to sue the MPA and take them down. I don’t know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it’s something that has to be taken care of.”
Films include: “This Is The End,” “Good Boys,” “Pineapple Express,” “Superbad,” “Knocked Up,” “The Interview,” “Observe and Report,” “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” and others.
See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.
Moral rating: Extremely Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 4
The comedy’s violence is based mostly around slap-stick style violence; ex. a police car hits a main character who is carrying 2 large red slushies which splatter the wind shield and leave the officer believing she has blood covering the entire front of the car. Sexual content is VERY limited for an R movie or even a PG-13 movie (no nudity, sex scenes and only several crude comments), which is a nice surprise considering this is from the guys who did superbad. The violence is frequent, but not gory, another surprise for an R movie. The films failing is its language, many swears pepper the conversations.
Weed fills this movie, FILLS IT. bags of it, boxes of it, bongs of it, joints of it. The movie is named after a rare form of ganja after all. So if you have a problem with weed this movie isn't for you. The 2 main characters even sell some to already addicted 7th graders to raise some quick cash (one of the men is arrested for this).
So, I wouldn't say this is a GOOD or EDIFYING movie; it's for entertainment. There are some messages of staying loyal to your friends no matter what. It has subliminal messages of smoking leading to trouble. But in the end the characters don't show any intentions of quitting. It's a funny, really funny, movie which many Christians might find suitable for themselves and their (age appropriate) friends.
Moral rating: Better than Average / Moviemaking quality: 4
Almost every second of the movie is spent smoking weed, buying weed, talking about weed, or purchasing weed; seriously, I'm not kidding. This is probably the worst example to small children I could ever imagine giving, which is why bringing your children or even teenagers to this is a moronic idea. The only reputable message in the entire movie is about friendship, through thick and thin, which I guess is exemplified through Dale and Saul, the two main characters. Biblically-speaking, the Bible tells us to put a harness on our tongues and treat our bodies like temples of the holy spirit, something “Pineapple Express” fails to represent in the extreme.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to any believer who considers themself a follower of the most high. …
My Ratings: Moral rating: Extremely Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 2½