ineapple Express is, in a nutshell, a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy that realized cinematic laughter can’t survive on herb alone. The movie has less on its mind than more ambitious movies of late, but it's nonetheless an entertaining empty-calorie snack if you have the movie munchies.

Pineapple Express is the latest comedy by the Judd Apatow movie-a-month factory, written in the usual slapdash fashion by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg from a story by Apatow, who produced. This entry, however, contains a surprising amount of violence and a lead character more likable than any of the kids in "Superbad."

Rogen stars as Dale Denton, a process server, and one day he buys a quarter bag of amazing weed - Pineapple Express, weed so good it smells like "God's vagina"- from dealer Saul (James Franco), a guy who wears pajamas all day and watches Room 227 reruns.

The trouble starts when Dale gets back into his car and witnesses a drug dealer (Gary Cole) and a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) whack a member of an Asian gang that's stealing their clientele. Dale, panicked and parallel-parked, makes such a ruckus that he inadvertently alerts the two killers to his presence. He escapes but leaves behind his stash, the rare and distinctive Pineapple Express, a type of marijuana Ted sells only to Saul.