This is an endearingly slovenly, profane movie with bursts of startling violence, but it's all played for nyuk-nyuk laughs, and it has been directed with more care than it might initially appear by David Gordon Green.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
7 Aug 2008
fresh:
At its sharpest, the script by [Seth]Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who co-wrote Superbad, recalls what made Superbad worth seeing: the sidewinding conversational riffs, the why-am-I-laughing? wordplay.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug 2008
rotten:
Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 Aug 2008
rotten:
Watching Pineapple Express is like sitting dead sober in a room with a bunch of stoned people who are laughing uproariously. They're having a great time. You're not.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
11 Aug 2008
fresh:
But there's still time for a gloriously unexpected coda, a moment of quiet reflection and narrative ingenuity that confirms 'Pineapple Express' as the finest comedy of the year.