“Pineapple Express”
*** RATING | This action comedy finds customer Dale (Seth Rogen) and toasted dealer Saul (James Franco) on the lam from a drug kingpin and his cop accomplice (Gary Cole and Rosie Perez). A process server with a bag of tricks and some odd costumes in the trunk of his car, Dale thought he was just going to deliver a subpoena. Instead he witnesses a gang murder. He panics, tosses his smoldering joint. It’s funny, sad and very careless. It’s also got a strange joy to it. R. 1 hour, 52 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
“The Wackness”
** RATING | Jonathan Levine, the writer-director of “The Wackness,” asks a lot of his viewers. We have to believe that a teenage pot dealer and hip-hop head like Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) would also be a shy virgin. And that Shapiro would be seeing a bong-toking therapist (Ben Kingsley) who charges by the gram rather than the hour. And that these two oddballs would become not only partners in crime but a surrogate father and son. Shapiro also has eyes for Dr. Squires’ sexy, streetwise stepdaughter, Stephanie. R. 1 hour, 35 minutes. Rafer Guzman, Newsday
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