Article: One Toke Over The Line; 'Pineapple Express' Is Full Of Laughs Till the End

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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