Stoner Comedy
'Zack and Miri' do it good
Kevin Smith and I go way back. Aside from our shared affinity for dick and fart jokes, Mallrats was the first movie I saw alone with a girl (I had, of course, made out with another girl during Waterworld a week or two prior but her parents were sitting next to us so it didn't really count as a date). And Chasing Amy, meanwhile, ...
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'Pineapple Express' all about best buds
Believe it or not, there was a time when Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow were unable to get their projects green-lit. But after the breakout success of The 40-Year-Old Virgin in 2005 and the consistent strength of successive films like Knocked Up, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Rogan and Apatow can do pretty much whatever they want. And what they want, it seems, is to ...
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'Harold and Kumar 2' one of best films ever?
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay picks up right where Harold and Kumar go to White Castle left off -- literally. Although Kal Penn (Kumar) has obviously put on more than ten-minutes worth of weight in the instant between the two films, otherwise ...
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'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' is unforgettable
Jason Segel is a supporting actor in one of my favorite films. Now he's also the star of another one.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall chronicles the breakup melodrama that transpires between Segel's character (an everyman film composer) and Kristen Bell's character (a so-hot-right-now Hollywood actress) after ...
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'Puff, Puff, Pass' passable
Puff, Puff, Pass is a stoner comedy. It's also Mekhi Phifer's directorial debut. And lastly, it's not especially bad.
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