This Is the End

Note: May contain spoilers. Proceed with caution. It's a party at Franco's house and everybody's invited! No, I'm being serious. If you pick a comedian at random there's a pretty good chance they're in here. Unfortunately, halfway through the party there's this huge earthquake, a giant sinkhole, and a good chunk of the cast dies. If anything, this is my biggest complaint with This Is The End. I would have loved to have seen some interaction beyond the six main "characters". For example, I was so happy when I saw Jason Segel, but I don't remember him having more than one line of dialogue and Paul Rudd came and went in a matter of 90 seconds. The disappointment stops there, however, because from that point on This Is The End is a non-stop laugh fest that has you fighting to control your bladder. While This Is The End is going to attract a lot of attention from its extensive cast of actors (which include the likes of Michael Cera, Emma Watson, Aziz Ansari, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse), its main focus is on the six men who seem to have all been in a movie together at some point in time. You follow Seth Rogen, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, and Danny McBride who all play some exaggerated version of themselves. The world is ending and the apocalypse is here. This is kind of the glue that holds the film together because the main story is about Rogen and Baruchel's "struggling" relationship. Most of the movie is spent in Franco's new house, which he deems "the fort". Because you have six grown men stuck in a house together with limited resources, tempers start to flare. Things get said and the truth comes out. This is where the meat of the comedy is found. The banter between these six comedians as they continue to bash one another is nothing short of magical. Danny McBride is probably the most ruthless of the six as he appears to "hate" every single person in the house. Jonah's over-the-top kindness never stopped being funny and I couldn't help but laugh every time I saw Craig's "Take Yo Panties Off!" shirt. With the comedy comes some unexpected suspense, however, and that's when the theater became dead quiet. Because we've entered the apocalypse demons are roaming around the city and each one is packing a gigantic penis. There's no avoiding its gaze as Goldberg and Rogen make it a point to zoom in on its monstrous size. There's only one really intense scene with Robinson and Baruchel, but, for me, it really killed the flow of the film. We were given joke after joke after joke and then boom! I've never seen a theater become so quiet so quick. While it made sense given the context of the film, I still feel like This Is The End wouldn't have suffered without it. Another thing that kind of threw me off was the hefty amount of religious talk scattered throughout the movie. From the start Baruchel sees this as our "judgement day" because he saw people being sucked up into the sky by blue beams of light. I assumed it would stop there and they would take a different approach to the whole "end of the world" theme, but I was wrong. Baruchel continues to back his statements and we slowly start to learn that he was correct in his assumption. For those of you who aren't religious or aren't Christian, don't fret. While they are using the bible as a way to smooth out the rough edges of the story, it's merely there to provide a message: Be nice to people and try to put the needs of others above your own. You don't need to believe in God to understand that basic concept, but it's still something that seems long forgotten in today's world. Finally, the visual effects in this movie are fantastic for a comedy film. While each demon has your run-of-the-mill design, they're all given an extreme amount of detail. If you're a comedy enthusiast you're going to be impressed by what you see here. Usually comedy films don't have huge budgets, so when one wants to include CGI of some sort it usually looks terrible. This Is The End completely destroys that trend and made it clear that comedy films deserve to be just as creative as your big-budget Sci-Fi action films. Overall Score: 9/10 - I was really surprised at just how much I enjoyed this movie. I had some high expectations given its cast and I wasn't disappointed. From start to finish the comedy was non-stop and I even had tears streaming down my face during some sequences. What makes it so great is the fact that it's so ruthless and confident in its delivery, which makes it so easy to fall in love with. If you're a fan of Rogen and his posse of friends then you should definitely see this. This Is The End is truly one of the best comedies I've seen in years and I can't wait to see it again.

I love this movie. This was probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed in the movie theater.

This Is the End is a laugh riot. Has Seth Rogen ever been in a bad movie? His lowest rated movie per RottenTomatoes is The Watch (16%), but I thought that was a pretty funny and entertaining movie. I think The Green Hornet is the limpest of the bunch. If you are offended by that adjective, you definitely should NOT watch this movie as there are more male body/sex/potty jokes than I've encountered in any other movie in my lifetime (and I am old enough to remember Porky's). At face value, it seems like it would be pretty hard to screw this movie up with Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Michael Cera and a dozen others playing themselves during the Apocalypse. Even Rihanna and Harry Potter's Emma-freaking-Watson have extended cameos. There is one cameo that is so absurd and crazy that it would be a major spoiler to reveal it. Speaking of spoiler alerts, you'd think that the cause of the Apocalypse wouldn't be revealed, but that hasn't been the case. One reviewer mentions that it it is a literal interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelations. You're at least 45 minutes into the movie before the reveal of what is really happening (unless you were raised reading the Bible. Then you get it pretty early on). Yeah, it's also a riff on the egocentricity of Hollywood celebrities, but who really cares unless you are an avid reader of TMZ or Perez Hilton. The real brilliance is in the dialogue, a ton of which has to be ad-lib/improv. There are so many jokes in this movie told in the context of the story it would fill a TV comedy series for multiple seasons. This is a two-hour comedy movie. Do they make any comedy movie that long? I just hope it has a Lord of the Rings-style Extended Edition on DVD.

This is the end is a epic film all round it has a good story and has good comedy epic horror action I enjoyed watching this film from beginning to end thank you.

このファミリー最高です… 今見ても豪華過ぎる。 まさにコメディ映画のエクスペンダブルズ！ ただ吹き替えはオススメ出来ないです… どこぞの芸人なんか使いやがって…。

A hilarious movie with all the leads having to battle the Apocalypse, and facing existential issues! A tongue in cheek look at themselves, makes this ensemble cast driven movie, a treat to watch, and fun movie to own!! Go for it!

Nonstop fun lol

This movie has lots of cameos and violence. It probably works so well because they take the mick out of each other. The cast is excellent and Jonah Hill is top class. At first, I wasn't sure about this movie but about 30 minutes in, it started to pick up. It's full of twists and turns and laughs. Sure, it does have some "cringe" moments in there, but I would recommend this movie, if you are a fan of the main cast.