The Good

This film was a classic the moment it was a conceived.

The Bad

Somewhat hard to navigate around all the extra features.The Pineapple Express f those movies that's just happens. Take a decent script, put in some very capable actors, throw in a wildcard director and that's what you get with this film about dope. Seth Rogen plays Dale, a process server who spends the majority of his day smoking buds. He has a young girlfriend and his tightest friend is a named Saul (James Franco). After witnessing a murder that has something to do with a brand of marijuana called the Pineapple Express, Dale and Saul go on the lamb. While trying to figure everything out, The Pineapple Express as a movie takes a different turn. It goes from being a buddy/stoner comedy to being an all out action assault. Eventually it reaches laughable proportions but that is entirely the point in this whimsical, smoke filled, fairy tale of a film.

Features

Extended & Alternate Scenes

With titles like "Private Miller" and "Asians in Van" these extended scenes were rightly cut from the film. While I think that an extended version of this movie is available somewhere, I think that the 112 minute version on this Blu-ray release was just right. I never felt that things lagged, but at the same time I didn't feel like I needed to see any more of what I was seeing. The laughs in this movie come in waves but for the most part these extended scenes seem better left out of the final cut.

Commentary with Filmmakers and Cast

The Making of and The Action of The Pineapple Express

Random Featurettes

This Blu-ray release comes with a plethora of small featurettes most of which were not included on the Standard Definition release. Here is a complete listing:

- Phone Booth

- Line-O-Rama

- Gag-O-Rama

- Gag Reel

- Item 9

- Saul's Apartment

- Raw Footage

- Raw Footage

- Begley's Best

- Red and Jessica's Guide to Marriage

- Injury Report

- Stuntmaster Ken

- Rehearsal Footage

- First Table Read

While I think that the Apatow and Co. might have gone overboard in regards to the materials that they have provided to the fans, ultimately I think that all of these features (or at least the ones that I had the time to go through) are pretty darn cool. I have to admit that out of all of the them my favorite one was Begley's Best, just because I think that Ed Begley, Jr. is hilarious. Of course the Gag Reel is good and so is the Rehearsal Footage, but I think there reaches a point where even the most ardent fan might say that enough is enough.

Comic-Con Panel

Video

1080p High Definition / 2.40:1. Standard and High Definition. This DVD looked a lot better than its SD counterpart (I found that that release was kind of dark overall). I still found that the colors had an orange tint but this Blu-ray release was a much stronger representation of when I saw this film in the theater. The images on this disc seemed much brighter and opened up. I also found that the picture itself seemed that much more crisp. Director of photography Tim Orr doesn't seem like he has tried to reinvent the wheel here, which is why this movie takes on an almost airy feel.

Audio

English and French Dolby TrueHD 5.1. Spanish, Portuguese, Thai 5.1 (Dolby Digital). English Stereo. Subtitled in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai an Indonesian. Since I watched this movie on an HD set and not my one speaker, 13" TV set, I was not surprised to find that the audio on this release was much better than I on my Standard viewing. Things sounded good here without being overdone. I love that by the end of the movie when things become a free for all (action-wise), the audio seemed to keep itself as mellow as the main characters it is documenting. All in all everything is leveled really nicely here.

Package

Seth Rogen and James Franco's faces are featured on the front of this Blu-ray cover. The back portion gives us 3 shots from this film, a small description, a large Special Features listing, technical specs and a cast list.

Final Word

When I first saw this movie in the theater I didn't know how much I liked it. I thought it was good, it made me laugh in parts, but I was more inspired by the direction that David Gordon Green brought to it. Upon watching it on SD and Blu-ray I found the whole experience to be much more enjoyable. I loved the way the actors interacted, I loved the story, and more to the point I found myself watching a movie that I had already seen and I didn't really know everything that was going to happen. In fact, this movie was so enjoyable on it's second go round that I am half considering watching it again just to keep the high going.

Whether you are a serious collector or you just do it for fun, The Pineapple Express is a movie that you definitely want in your Blu-Ray collection.