The Force clearly was with Kyle Newman and Adam Goldberg in the decision to make the movie, though it probably took a Jedi mind trick for the studio execs to get it into the theaters. Which is undoubtedly why it took three years to release.
Judd Aptow seems to be slipping, and ‘Pineapple Express' seemed to be little more than a dream project where the studio just let him stick as many joints (definitely more than 20) into a movie as possible. Let's just hope that with ‘Year One', coming 2009, he gets back to his ‘Superbad'-A-game.