If there’s any doubt in your mind (and I can’t imagine why there would be) that “Pineapple Express” is a head trip movie about stoners imagining themselves the heroes of a movie they’d like to see, the final morning-after breakfast-and-bonding scene (not to mention the Robert Palmer “Woke up laughing” snippet followed by the Huey Lewis song over the end credits) drives it home like Bubby. The “Extended Version” now on DVD and Blu-ray goes even further. The guys re-live their movie, summing up what they’ve shared, and what they’ve learned.
Check out the clip above (WARNING — spoilers and R-rated language), and then continue below for the Huey Lewis plot-synopsis lyrics. Director David Gordon Green reportedly asked just three things: 1) that it sound like his ’80s stuff; 2) that it contain repeated mentions of the movie title; and 3) that it contain something like a plot synopsis. I smell Oscar! (In a good way…)
P.S. Hey, man, have you ever played “Dark Side of the Moon” at the same time as “The Wizard of Oz“… ?
My favorite line, of course, is the reference to the most-used line in all of American cinema: “Let’s get outta here!” (or “We gotta get outta here!”).
Another groovy reference: The lyric “And how did we get into this mess?” musically echoes the one that precedes “Tryin’ to make it real — compared to what?” in Les McCann and Eddie Harris’s Montreux classic, “Compared to What?”
From “Pineapple Express” by Huey Lewis:
Brother, grab your chillum
And get all your gear
We got problems
We gotta get out of here
Well, I got you and you got me We’re as high as we could be
So it’s all right
Oh yeah, it’s all right
It’s not your fault and it’s not mine
I was just in the wrong place and time
Now there’s trouble
Oh yeah, trouble
And how did we get into this mess?
Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express
Totally gone cause’ we’re on Pineapple Express
Gotta keep your head down
And be as cool as you can
You know I got us
Oh, a new evacuation plan
Just stay low, follow me
They can’t see what we can see
Cause’ we’re on it, yeah it’s the chronic
Don’t get excited, just get your head right And we’ll stick together if it takes all night…
