This Is the End (2013)
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Critics Consensus: Energetic, self-deprecating performances and enough guffaw-inducing humor make up for the flaws in This Is the End loosely written script.
Critics Consensus: 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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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- Rating:
- R (for crude and sexual content throughout, brief graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence)
- Genre:
- Drama , Action & Adventure , Horror , Comedy
- Directed By:
- Seth Rogen , Evan Goldberg
- Written By:
- Seth Rogen , Evan Goldberg
- In Theaters:
- Jun 12, 2013 Wide
- On DVD:
- Oct 1, 2013
- US Box Office:
- $101.5M
Cast
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James Franco
as James Franco -
Jonah Hill
as Jonah Hill -
Seth Rogen
as Seth Rogen -
Jay Baruchel
as Jay Baruchel -
Danny McBride
as Danny McBride
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Critic Reviews for This Is the End
All Critics (206) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (171) | Rotten (35) | DVD (3)
There's wonder here that films with quadruple the effects budget would kill for.
The film is more guileful than it looks, even though the narrative is nuts ...
No 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.
Writers Rogen and Goldberg run out of ideas before the second act and just half a** it until the end credits...
The loose structure lazily rushes out plot points late in the game
...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.
Near-the-knuckle comedy that proves self-indulgent laughs, when done right, can be hilarious.
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.
Audience Reviews for This Is the End
Anyone who says This is the End is the ultimate 'Stoner movie' has obviously never been stoned. Watching This is the End under the influence would lead to the Whities every single time. I suggest you watch Ronnie O'Sullivan's Snooker Hotshots or Bevis and Buthead instead as they are both easy and funny. It is fair to say however, that this is probably the best film ever written under the influence of marijuana. So it's a stoner's movie rather than a stoner movie. You're welcome for the free advice drug takers. Anyway, if you dislike James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride etc then you're going to hate it. If you quite like them then you will love it. That said, it could make you into a believer. It's no secret that Seth Rogen has been wanting to make his own 'Shaun of the Dead', he has been quoted as saying 'F**k those guys for making that film' because they had the idea before him. It's ok though, as no one could have made this odd little masterpiece other than him. All his friends are in it so they decided that everyone should play themselves, albeit, exaggerated versions of themselves. This is actually more clever then just being an exercise in egotism. Everyone is brilliant, Michael Cera's performance had me in stitches. I didn't like everything, it is very puerile in places and there is one masturbation joke too many but overall, it is well written, well paced, brilliantly acted and most of all very funny. It's a future classic.
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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.
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funny enough, and the hilarious cameos certainly didn't hurt, but it's nowhere near as good as Neighbors.
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This Is the End Quotes
- Jay Baruchel:
- We just somehow have to prove our worthiness.
- James Franco:
- I always keep my props.
- Craig Robinson:
- Welcome to Heaven motherfuckers.
- Danny McBride:
- His face looks like the police sketch of a fucking rapist.
- Jay Baruchel:
- What the fuck does that mean?
- Craig Robinson:
- Dude, Sigel's dead, Krumholtz is dead, Michael Cera's dead.
- Danny McBride:
- I guess if Michael Cera's gone, it's not a total loss.
- 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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