Comic-Con begins this week, not with a bang, but a blaze. Sony’s eagerly awaited next installment in the train that is Judd Apatow continues barreling down the track with multiple word of mouth screenings of Pineapple Express this week, including one in San Diego during the massive weekend of the Con. It’s worth trying to get into one just for the Huey Lewis and the News song that rolls over the end credits.
I was lucky enough to see the flick last night, and it was excellent on all counts. It’s over the top, violent, and very funny. And while Danny McBride’s Red character threatens to outfunny both Seth Rogen and James Franco, it’s Franco who brings us back the loveable movie stoner that we’ve missed so much.
People have been smoking pot in movies for decades now, but where Knocked Up just gave us useless layabouts who light up all the time, there’s actually a long line of lovable movie stoners who have handed off the torch to Franco, and he continues their tradition in glorious fashion. Here’s to those who helped pave the road.
Is it just me, or does Andy Dick’s mug shot from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department look like a head shot from a Joker audition? Suddenly his part in Old School as Barry the Oral Sex Instructor is a lot less funny.
For anyone who doesn’t know Andy Dick was arrested this morning at 1:13 am for exposing a 17-year-old girl’s breasts outside of a Buffalo Wild Wings (yes, Buffalo Wild Wings) in Murrieta, CA. Police were investigating a call about “an intoxicated male” urinating outside the restaurant. It was then, a police statement says, that Dick approached the girl and pulled down her tank top and bra.
But really? Is anybody shocked? It’s like the fake gasps that Pee Wee Herman masturbated at a theater. I’d be more surprised if a year went by without some Andy Dick genital story (no pun intended). The actor has reportedly exposed himself to audiences twice, was arrested for cocaine and marijuana possession in 1999, and in Feb., 2007 was forced from the set of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for continuing to rub Ivanka Trump after she asked him to stop.
Dick has already been released from the detention center upon posting the $5,000 bail. Ah, to work in the LAPD.
Here are some gags that could have been saved for the actual movie: George Bush smoking pot and saying the words “cock sandwich”; the one-eyed inbred son in the basement, which comes after an obvious set-up, anyway, and which reminds too much of the tow truck driver’s house in the woods from the first movie; and the Ku Klux Klan sequence, which feels ripped straight from O Brother, Where Art Thou?– it will likely still be funny in the movie, despite its being familiar, but there’s no need to make us feel like the movie won’t be fresher than a sack of chicken rings.
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Is it just me, or does Andy Dick’s mug shot from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department look like a head shot from a Joker audition? Suddenly his part in Old School as Barry the Oral Sex Instructor is a lot less funny.
