Page Magazine 04: Pineapple Express

Another Nudos En El Pelo series! I’ll start posting the articles I write for Page Magazine.

I wrote this for Page but it never saw the ink because I’m talking about a pot movie, bu…
Yet, I’m also talking about comedy and good actors and great writers… and even puppies!
Here are the articles, in Spanish and English.

Pineapple Express [ESP]

Siempre nos han dicho que las drogas son malas, pero nunca he dudado tanto. Pineapple Express está por salir y yo que no puedo esperar.

Escrita por Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen y Evan Goldberg (Knocked Up, Superbad), Pineapple Express es la historia de Dale Denton (Rogen), Saul Silver (James Franco) y su extraña relación cliente-dealer-amigo.

Pineapple Express es también un nuevo tipo de mariguana que sólo Saul vende, y Dale resulta comprar.
Las cosas se complican cuando Dale presencia un asesinato por accidente, se apanica y huye, dejando en la escena parte de su última compra, la cual los hace fácil de rastrear por chicos malos y policías corruptos.

Usualmente las películas de este género se caracterizan por la ausencia de acción una vez que los personajes han hecho de las suyas, pero esta vez se trata de Rogen y Franco intoxicados, huyendo de la policía, comenzando persecuciones y medio usando armas.

Comedia, acción y narcóticos. Judd Apatow ha estado leyendo mi diario.

Pineapple Express [ENG]

People have always said that drugs are bad, but I’ve never doubted that so much. Pineapple Express is here and I’m reconsidering my illegalness chastity vow.

Written by Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (you know, Knocked Up, Superbad), Pineapple Express is the story of Dale Denton (Rogen), Saul Silver (James Franco) and their atypical client-dealer-friend bond.

Pineapple Express is also a new kind of pot that only Saul sells, and Dale ends up buying.
Things get bad when Dale witnesses a murder by accident (unlike the rest of us, who do it willingly), freaks [and geeks] out, and flees the scene leaving some pot behind, which makes both of them easy to track by the bad boys.

Usually this kind of movie is characterized by the absence of action once the dudes have taken care of business, but this time we’re talking intoxicated, police-fleeing, gun-testing dudes. Drugs = fun?

Comedy, action and narcotics, Judd Apatow has been reading my blog.
The movie opens today, go see it… Oh yeah, puppies are pretty, too.