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Ahhh...Pineapple Express...there is a long history of pot-smoking indulging movies out there, and generally they are pretty damn hilarious, from Half Baked to Dazed and Confused.

This particular rendition on the archetype of the stoner movie, though, is complete with trailers highlighting that song from M.I.A - "Paper Planes".

Jesus H Christ is that song addictive...I tried listening to someone blather on for a long time, Ive tried to induce it out of my brain with Radiohead balring non-stop, and I even drileld convenient holes into my head...none of those work, but I do now think I misdrilled....my memory is feeling a little skecthy these days.

What was I saying?

Oh yes...so...this damn MIA song, which has been here forever, is getting pretty goddamn stale...AND...I have no idea WTF this singer is saying....I sang it as "Im fly like chicken, im fly like soup"...but alas...I was dead wrong.

Here are the actual lyrics:

"Paper Planes"

[x2]
I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
If you come around here, I make 'em all day
I get one down in a second if you wait

[x2]
Sometimes I feel sitting on trains
Every stop I get to I'm clocking that game
Everyone's a winner now we're making that fame
Bonafide hustler making my name

[x4]
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money

[x2]
Pirate skulls and bones
Sticks and stones and weed and bombs
Running when we hit 'em
Lethal poison through their system

[x2]
No one on the corner has swagger like us
Hit me on my banner prepaid wireless
We pack and deliver like UPS trucks
Already going hell just pumping that gas

[x4]
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money

M.I.A.
Third world democracy
Yeah, I got more records than the K.G.B.
So, uh, no funny business

Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go
Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go

[usonian]

I was pretty dissapointed with Pineapple Express.  I'm a big fan of Judd Apatow and the boys from Freeks and Geeks so when I saw the trailer for this awhile ago I got excited to see it.  It has some decent drug humor in it and there are definitely a lot of funny parts sprinkled in, but as a whole it was a little too long and slightly boring.  At first I thought the idea of blending a pot flick with an action movie had promise but the plot never seems to serve the humor well enough.  Don't tell me that drug comedies aren't supposed to have a plot either; Half Baked had a plot, it was ridiculous, but it was hillarious in it's execution.  Half baked had plenty of dumb drug humor AND even mixed in some action, but it was done using the drugs as the focus of the humor.  I swear the first 30 minutes of Pineapple Express is just Seth Rogan and James Franco (who IMO are hillarious) smoking pot and talking, which spawned some funny moments but overall just wasn't that interesting.

Unfortunately this was one of those cases where the movie used all the funny / interesting parts in the trailer and then you kind of knew when those were coming when you watched the movie.  If the movie would have used more of the pacing, style, and density of humor that the trailer did, it could have been much better.

Now about MIA... I think it is funny that MIA song is being played all over the radio now.  MIA is totally NOT a radio-friendly group at all and that song would never be on if it weren't for the movie.  Damn marketers, it is catchy as hell.