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Star and writer Seth Rogen and producer Judd Apatow had hits with the coarse buddy comedies Knocked Up and Superbad. The films followed the same formula - abandon good taste in favour of vulgar humour and splendidly silly slapstick. Add a drugs element to drive the comedy - most of the major protagonists are stoners or high - and the result is disgracefully funny if ethically deplorable. Here, Rogen is at his guffawing idiotic best as Dale, a server of legal documents (he happily delivers a subpoena to a surgeon in mid-operation).
After witnessing the murder of an opposing drug dealer by a crooked cop Rosie Perez and the city's most dangerous druglord Ted Jones (Gary Cole), he is forced to go on the run, along with his reluctant dealer Saul (James Franco).
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