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Article: One Toke Over The Line; 'Pineapple Express' Is Full Of Laughs Till the End
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- The Washington Post
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- August 6, 2008
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When I was growing up, my mom brought home a poster from a local
hippie boutique that featured the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg standing
in the snow with a sign that read "Pot is fun." (What can I say? She
was a cool mom.) That image came back in a giddy rush during
"Pineapple Express," a weed-fueled comedy that seems to have been
designed to prove Ginsberg right. Written by Seth Rogen and Evan
Goldberg ("Superbad") with the Midas-touched Judd Apatow producing,
this by turns inspired, goofy and finally weirdly hyper-violent
celebration of male bonding and chronic Peter Panism joins such
classics as "Up in Smoke" and the "Harold & Kumar" oeuvre in its
sunny, raunchy acceptance of its own ...
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