Movie: Pineapple Express

Pineapple Express
(official site | imdb)

I like Seth Rogen and James Franco. I've liked them since Freaks and Geeks. I wanted very much to like this movie.

And it's not that I disliked it. I just didn't like it like I'd like to like it. The movie was funny in certain places, and the action was fine. It was acceptable, and good in some places. Huey Lewis did the movie's theme song.

The movie relies on a sly familiarity with drug culture that I, and a majority of other viewers, don't have. On the commentary track, they discussed how the studio was not really into this movie, and I can see why. There's no clear audience. It's billed as a stoner/action movie. It pulls that hybrid off, but you're left wondering: Who asked for this?

In the same way that I still think well of Cop Rock, I appreciate that they tried something unconventional. But that's all I've got. I'll try to remember to look up Superbad and Knocked Up later this year to see these guys in their element, in a better-defined niche.