Grow up. I would put $100 bucks that anyone that posts to an entertainment website has seen the second highest grossing film of all time.

Look guys, you don’t have to pretend you didn’t see TDK. I will still think you are cool if you admit you saw it and I will never call you a conformist.

Like TDK or hate it, just admit you have seen it - especially if you are going to participate in a discussion about it!

This is a myth. You clearly do not know how Hollywood works, or you’re here and delusional and the only way you can rationalize your failure is by blaming it on the success of others. Are you saying Universal wouldn’t make an unrelated movie because Sony is making Pineapple Express? The only way in which your argument could have any credibility is if you’re saying Fox didn’t make a weed action movie because Sony was moving forward on this film. I’m not even sure that makes sense. What are you even trying to say? Thats there’s a limited amount of money in this world and the specific 35 million that was spent on Pineapple Express could have been spent on a different movie?

Apatow this, rogen that. Not funny, recycled.

The poster above named Alex seems like a friggin’ square, and most of the people bitchin’ about Apatow and Co. probably haven’t even seen the film.

They are what they are. Genius? No. Good entertainment for a couple hours.

So many films are out in the world, from indie to blockbusters, that to waste time complaining about a producer making movies about potheads is pointless. Go make your own films negative talkbackers…

The saturation issue is what makes comedy like this so cyclical. The recycled jokes are getting old and the lack of originality is boring. These aren’t just buddy movies (which I happen to enjoy), these are unoriginal buddy movies.

I love a good action flick like anyone else. I don’t mind drugs, stupidity and humor, but when it’s the same crap time after time, I hate the fact money is constantly wasted on it and taken from movies that should be made.

Not all stories should be told…..over and over and over again.

As for those saying the Apatow name is saturated, can you blame them? Look at what comedies have come out this year that weren’t Apatow. The only enjoyable comedies I’ve seen this year have been Harold and Kumar, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Pineapple Express (2/3 by Apatow), though I haven’t seen Step Brothers yet. Given the garbage everyone else is churning out, I wish Apatow would release more films. For all those that don’t like his brand of comedy, you guys can stick to Meet the Spartans and The Love Guru.

Dumb Apatow fans = hilariously defensive about being dumb Apatow fans.

“Pineapple” has less on its mind than more ambitious movies from producer Judd Apatow’s factory (”Superbad,” “Knocked Up”), but it’s an entertaining little empty-calorie snack if you have the movie munchies. Its invariably-stoned heroes are a process server (Seth Rogen) and his pot dealer (James Franco), who get mixed up with bad guys and spend most of the movie trying to catch the crooks by using moves they learned under the tutelage of Seagal DVDs.

They’re nice guys and they’re in over their heads, which is where most of the film’s humor comes from. Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s screenplay isn’t as sharp about the way young men’s minds work as “Superbad” was, but the action-movie elements give “Pineapple” something different. And their dialogue has perfect pitch, as in a scene in which Rogen, exhibiting some of the neurotic bravado of Charles Grodin, is confronted by an evil-doer, and the only thing he can think to do is yell, “I hate you!”

It’s good fun, and the cast, which also includes Danny McBride and a squawkless Rose Perez, is perfect. If there’s a vague feeling of dissatisfaction from watching “Pineapple Express,” it’s probably because its creators seem to be repeating themselves (as a friend has suggested, what about a movie with a female protagonist for a change?), and it’s clear they’re capable of more.