This Is the End Reviews
LarsenOnFilm
...runs on some delicious self-critique.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Reno Gazette-Journal
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
TheMovieReport.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
3AW
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...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.
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| Original Score: 87/100
Movie Talk
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.
Crikey
At its best it's a film about people getting lost in the fiction of their own creations.
ABC Radio Brisbane
If you're familiar with their previous films, you'll be laughing often and laughing loudly.
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| Original Score: A-
The Mercury
If Fast and Furious 6 was stupid in the bad way, This is the End is stupid in the best and funniest way.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Popcorn Junkie
An elaborate in-joke and everyone's in on the gag
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| Original Score: 3/5
Concrete Playground
It's a giant Hollywood in-joke, but one that invites you to share in the laughter.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The Standard
One of the funniest films of the year so far.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Autopsy
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
ABC Radio (Australia)
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Quickflix
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
FILMINK (Australia)
While bewildering for those unfamiliar with the Judd Apatow clan, for fans, this raunchy, daring and gleeful comedy comes up trumps.
The Dissolve
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
EricDSnider.com
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.
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| Original Score: B
Urban Cinefile
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
Shadows on the Wall
Rogen and Goldberg make the jump to directing with this riotously self-referential apocalyptic comedy.
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| Original Score: 4/5
