
It's audience rating is R and it runs for 111 min. Actors: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary ColeĪbout: A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.Writer: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Judd Apatow.

Both aspire to be police officers, and after working together to make it through the police academy, they're dispatched on an assignment to go undercover as high school students. The jock Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) initially teases him, but needs Schmidt's help studying for an exam. Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) is a geeky, awkward high school student who is mocked by his classmates. Writers-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have a unique ability to take ideas that seem awful on paper and reinvent them with their unique perspectives, and this one's no different: The idea of rebooting a classic television series may have seemed very cynical, but Lord and Miller crafted it into a loving satire of the buddy cop genre that paired two unlikely stars together. The reimagining of the classic "21 Jump Street" series into a 2012 action-comedy finds a similar blend between nonstop humor and exciting action, adding the same, lightly mismatched friendship that set "Pineapple Express" apart from other studio comedies. Rogen is never shy about his politics, and "Long Shot" is blunt in its message about media corruption without ever losing its comedic grace.

He still gets to do plenty of physical gags, but the film doesn't characterize him as a buffoon with poor intentions. Field's achievements are underappreciated by the President (Bob Odenkirk), while Flarsky has been fired for refusing to abandon a story that could expose his publication's corporate sponsors.Ī throwback to classic '90s romantic comedies about two completely opposite characters who fall in love, "Long Shot" transformed Rogen's wacky idiosyncrasies into a forward-thinking, active character. Field was Flarsky's childhood babysitter, and he's been in love with her ever since.

Secretary of State Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron). The film follows a surprising romance between Rogen's idealistic journalist Fred Flarsky and the U.S. "Pineapple Express" features one of his most iconic characters, but the 2019 romantic comedy "Long Shot" is perhaps the single most underrated work in his entire filmography.
