The Pineapple Express is a comedy that could best be defined as the styles of Jackie Chan, Steven Segal and Cheech and Chong. A slow start and cheap jokes dull the brilliant luster that sometimes sparkles in The Pineapple Express.

Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) is a process server who loves to get stoned. He gets his marijuana from Saul Silver (James Franco), a good natured pot dealer. Saul gets a shipment of special pot and sells it to Dale right before he serves a process to a rich drug lord, Ted Jones (Danny R. McBride). Just as he's about to leave his car to serve the paperwork, he witnesses a murder performed by a female cop (Rosie Perez) and Mr. Jones. In his attempts to flee, Dale brings attention to himself. Through unusual investigative techniques Mr. Jones realizes Saul is Dale's dealer. Dale and Saul have to flee to stay alive.

The Pineapple Express is, at times, hysterical, but writers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Judd Apatow couldn't avoid throwing in cheap, overused, adolescent jokes that just make the movie uneven and badly timed. They even have the over done "looks like gay sex from a distance." As The Pineapple Express progresses, it picks up steam and hurls itself to the other side of comedy with lines that made me explode with laughter.