This Is the End (2013)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 202
Fresh: 169 | Rotten: 33
Energetic, self-deprecating performances and enough guffaw-inducing humor make up for the flaws in This Is the End loosely written script.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 6
Energetic, self-deprecating performances and enough guffaw-inducing humor make up for the flaws in This Is the End loosely written script.
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Movie Info
The comedy This Is The End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption. (c) Sony
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Jonah Hill
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Seth Rogen
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Jay Baruchel
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Danny McBride
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Craig Robinson
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Michael Cera
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Emma Watson
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Mindy Kaling
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David Krumholtz
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Christopher Mintz-Pl...
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Rihanna
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Martin Starr
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Paul Rudd
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Channing Tatum
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Kevin Hart
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Aziz Ansari
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Douglas M. Griffin
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Lauren Graham
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Carol Sutton
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Yohance Myles
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Richard Holden
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Brian Huskey
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Randi Rousseau
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Travers Mackel
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Amber Carew
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London Gill
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Dave Jensen
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Jackie Flynn
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Carey Lamar Jones
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Ricky Mabe
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Jason Cox
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Nick Carter
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Howie Dorough
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Brian Littrell
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A.J. McLean
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Kevin Michael Richar...
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All Critics (202) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (169) | Rotten (33) | DVD (3)
The film is more guileful than it looks, even though the narrative is nuts ...
Top CriticNo comedy classic, then, but a good natured and engaging slice of goonish self-mockery.
... the movie definitely struck a chord with the crowd I saw it with ... (with) a climax that brings bromance back ...
This Is the End, true to its subject matter, is as funny as hell.
Crass, flimsily plotted, and self-referential to the point of narcissistic personality disorder. For those willing to tolerate such defects, however, it is also very, very funny.
Though This Is the End drags slightly here and there, the filmmakers keep it interesting by making the personal relationships dynamic, and the movie redeems all that is self-referential and self-congratulatory about it with a warmth of spirit.
...runs on some delicious self-critique.
The best thing about This Is the End is playing "spot-the-celebrity" in the early frames. Do this, and you'll find everyone from Jason Segel to David Krumholtz. If all that talent were put to better use, the film might have been worth watching.
That Rogen and Goldberg make one of the Backstreet Boys' more annoying yesteryear hit singles something you giddily sing along to is a measure of just how on point the satire is--that, or that it truly *is* the end of the world.
Enjoyable, time-killing piece of throwaway Friday-night pap... It's broad, stupid fun that, against all odds, ends up coagulating into an actual story with a point.
...a very savvy send up of the way we perceive celebrities as vapid and self-involved ciphers who are so often flattered and coddled that they come to accept applause as their due.
If your tolerance for druggy banter and puerile sex gags is low then the idea of facing Armageddon with Rogen and his chums will probably strike you as hell.
At its best it's a film about people getting lost in the fiction of their own creations.
If you're familiar with their previous films, you'll be laughing often and laughing loudly.
If Fast and Furious 6 was stupid in the bad way, This is the End is stupid in the best and funniest way.
An elaborate in-joke and everyone's in on the gag
It's a giant Hollywood in-joke, but one that invites you to share in the laughter.
One of the funniest films of the year so far.
A funny self-aware critique of the actors' indulgences - along with several violent deaths, demonic monsters and dick jokes. There are lots of dick jokes.
This is the End is one of the most fun movies I've seen in ages. It's a silly extravaganza, a huge bunch of nonsense, but, boy, it's entertaining ... This film is one big in-joke, but it's a very good one.
Never reaches the heights of earlier collaborations Superbad and Pineapple Express. However, it has a belligerent, depraved, coked-up Michael Cera, and that is a treat unique to this film and this film only, so it's certainly worth your time.
While bewildering for those unfamiliar with the Judd Apatow clan, for fans, this raunchy, daring and gleeful comedy comes up trumps.
The Is The End feels throughout like a feature-length inside joke, but Rogen and company are generous enough to let the audience in on the gag.
The juvenile ribaldry flies fast and furious ... culminating in a finale as bizarre and whacked-out as I've seen in a while. They're swinging for the fences here.
A crude, rowdy, self-indulgent buddy-movie mash-up travesty about the end of the world, in which smoking weed, ejaculation jokes, exorcism & a decapitated head kicked around like a soccer ball are par for the course
Rogen and Goldberg make the jump to directing with this riotously self-referential apocalyptic comedy.
Audience Reviews for This Is the End
Super Reviewer
Good funny movie! If you've seen Superbad, Pineapple Express, etc., then you know the type of humor this movie will have. I, for one, could watch James Franco, Seth Rogan, and Danny McBride leisurely eat a sandwich and manage to laugh my butt off. Thankfully this movie is much more exciting than that. It's brilliant that they all just play themselves and manage to poke fun at their own lifestyles. Expect weed and drug humor of course. The cast is perfect and the cameos aren't there to fill out the movie and take up time, they are excellent especially Emma Watson and Michael Cera. There are a few scary jumps on the way but the humour will carry you through it, as i said the story so well written you'll go with the flow.
All Jay Baruchel expected coming to LA was a fun time with Seth Rogen with all the wild partying to have both by themselves and at James Franco's housewarming party. Suddenly, the Rapture hits and the Biblical Apocalypse has begun. Now, Jay and Seth are desperately sheltering in James' house for rescue along with a few other friends. Together, they must band together to attempt to survive the end of the world, only for Jay to find that they are all too dumb and superficial to do it until they discover the only way out.
Super Reviewer
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- Aziz Ansari: Craig, help me!
- Craig Robinson: It's too late for you! You're in the hole already!
- Aziz Ansari: (Grabs Kevin Hart's leg) Kevin!
- Kevin Hart: What? Get the fuck off of me, Aziz! (Kicks him repeatedly in the face)
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- Danny McBride: I think the only reason that Jay did that was because he knew he was about 2 minutes away from becoming the house bitch himself.
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- Danny McBride: Hermione stole all of our shit.
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- James Franco: The one that squeals is the one that deals.
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- Danny McBride: When I came into your magazine it was a come for help.
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- James Franco: If I see your dick one more time, I'll fucking shoot it off!
- Danny McBride: You don't have enough bullets, bitch!
Discussion Forum
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| Guess the Tomatometer | 2 days ago | 139 |
| The previews make it look awful... | 3 days ago | 106 |
| Funniest actor in this movie? | 7 days ago | 89 |
| KNEEL. | 2 months ago | 44 |
| Rapture-Palooza VS. This is the End VS. The World's End | 3 months ago | 26 |
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Foreign Titles
- Das ist das Ende (DE)
- This Is The End (UK)
