“Pineapple Express” may be considered a speed train for stoners. Although not exactly a means of transportation, it seems to take potheads very far away in no time. Just lighting it up makes one feel “like killing a unicorn.”

In spite of the fact that the Judd Apatow produced movie may appear a bit familiar, as he uses the same recipe over and over again in his comedies, it surely won’t bore you and it certainly will take you high, perhaps higher than “Superbad” did.

Entitled after a very rare strain of marijuana, the uncomplicated, self-effacing comedy portrays the troubled story of a duo, the drug dealer and his steadfast client, whose lives get knotty overnight, due to their paranoid thoughts and fearful visions.

Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) is a stoner who is dating a much younger high-school pretty-face (Amber Heard) and whose foremost target is to drop in on his drug dealer as frequently as he wishes, in spite of the fact that he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Thus, one day, after visiting his pusher, Saul (James Franco), so as to acquire Pineapple Express, a very rare strain of weed, Dale grudgingly witnesses a dodgy drug lord (Gary Cole) and a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) killing someone. Dale gets flustered and accidentally leaves a roach of Pineapple Express at the murder scene.

Being thrown into disarray by the cold-blooded incident, the harebrained pothead returns to Saul’s place to learn if the weed he lost was so rare that it could have been traced back to him and his dealer. Moreover, the two find out in the blink of an eye that their nutty mental pictures were as real as they could be, when a visit to pusher Red (Danny R. McBride) gets out of control and turns into an aggressive battle and hunt carried out by a couple of hired scoundrels, played by Kevin Corrigan and Craig Robinson.

The weed-fueled movie which debuted in U.S. theatres on Wednesday indicates a flood back to comedy for James Franco, after impersonating more tee-total characters in 2007 war drama “In the Valley of Elah” and 2006 tragic romance “Tristan & Isolde.”

The actor’s “Pineapple” character, the full of beans dreamer Saul Silver embodies a side-splittingly dissimilar role for the James Franco, who is famous for his attractive and charming villain in the “Spider-Man” movies and for his television turn-persona in the role of James Dean. However, the David Gordon Green directed movie catches him acting idiotic and farcical, nonetheless, without being short of charisma and magnetism.

“Pineapple Express” is a crude, straightforward film that does not go all-out by any means to be seen as more than an off the wall comedy with aspirant action scenes.

However, the movie achieves to be outstandingly uproarious and proves that it can live comfortably without depicting anything momentous or thought-provoking. It only strives to describe an ingenuous reflection of stoner establishment and will presumably triumph among pothead moviegoers themselves and is a really appropriate weed replacement for approximately 108 minutes, as laughs will pour out during every second of the film’s hilarious and mirthful drollness.