A stoner buddy movie mashed up with a drug caper gets you Pineapple Express, which had me laughing pretty much from the start. I’m not Judd Apatow’s biggest fan by any means but I think he’s got a good hit with this one.

Seth Rogen and James Franco star pretty convincingly as two almost gay, perpetually stoned losers. Rogen’s character plays a process server, who basically tells people they gotta go to court. He’s doing his job one night and witnesses a druglord and a cop murder an Asian dude. A chase ensues as he picks up his drug dealer played by Franco and the druglord sends 2 hitmen after them. They keep running until the penultimate showdown happens in a huge pot farm with plenty explosions and guns and pot. Along the way, a miscellany of hijinks ensue, including a girlfriend’s father shooting at them and a car chase that involves a slushie with a foot stuck in the window.

Its interesting in that its got a strange brew of realism, exaggeration and absurdity. The car chase scene is the one given in any action movie and they try to ham it up a bit here, with some success. Its just pretty hilarious right when it lights up, start to finish, with a good touch of emotion and sweetness at the end, when the gay bonding scene wraps it all up. It was a pretty awesome ride.