This Is the End Reviews
Top CriticThe 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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
... the movie definitely struck a chord with the crowd I saw it with ... (with) a climax that brings bromance back ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Their big joke is to literalize the Book of Revelations, but snaking around this is a biting contempt for the entertainment business, their own bad movies, and the social privilege these confer.
This Is the End is the bust-out, badass comedy of the summer. And then some. It's so good you'll think you hallucinated it.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
As long as Rogen and his buddies are just as self-involved, crude, obnoxious and hopefully exaggerated versions of themselves, things stay pretty funny.
"This is the End" finds a balanced tone most horror comedies fail to deliver. Grossout humor melds easily with grossout horror, sometimes at the same moment.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
"This is one of the most tasteless, ridiculous and funniest comedies of the 21st century."
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| Original Score: 4/5
Most of the celebrities playing things straight (Michael Cera is a notable exception, portrayed as a cokehead sex addict who likes blowing cocaine into people's faces without warning).
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| Original Score: 3/4
As both homage and send-up, it presents viewers with the ultra-meta image of a comedy genre eating its own tail.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It is intensely raunchy and silly and joyous and tapped right into my inner teenager in a glorious way.
Six comedians stuck in a house together as the world is ending. What could be funnier than that?
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| Original Score: B+
I enjoyed the hell out of it for a while, but it got irritating and self-congratulatory long before it was over and I desperately do not want to see it again.
The film is uneven and about 15 minutes too long. But when it's funny, it's hilarious.
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| Original Score: 3/4
With no outsiders to coddle, this tight-knit ensemble locks into a groove and reaches some truly giddy heights, turning even the weakest material (a spoof of "The Exorcist") into anarchic fun.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's script is scathing, while their directing debut is a revelation.
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| Original Score: 4/5
This is all performed with brio, by likable performers with expert timing, ace chemistry, and a directing team eager to let them tear loose. But it can wear you down.
How long would it take to count the idiocies in "This Is the End"? Fooled you! Trick question. Numbers don't go that high.
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| Original Score: 1/4
This gut-busting comedy is an intoxicating mix of "Write what you know" and "Give the people what they want."
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
In places it is genuinely, even sublimely hilarious. Why shouldn't it be?
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| Original Score: 3/5
A story lurching moment-to-moment for inspiration, or full of ceaseless gags about every bodily fluid, or featuring rape jokes or the sight of Franco spitting food into Hill's mouth, doesn't pass as wit.
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| Original Score: 1/4
It's no minor accomplishment to make one of the most indulgent projects in Hollywood history. But with "This Is the End," Seth Rogen and his pals have indeed achieved this dubious goal.
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| Original Score: 2/5
You may have trouble at times deciding whether to laugh out loud or to avert your horrified gaze.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It's funnier and more energetic than a lot of what's out there in a movie season most would qualify as disappointing.
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| Original Score: 3/4
[It] has a gleeful sloppiness that seems to owe more to multiple rounds than multiple drafts.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The thing really moves. Even the grottiest bits have a way of hitting their marks and darting onward, the way they did in "Borat."
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
There is stuff in "This Is the End" that had me laughing so hard, I sensed new body parts joining in to help out - my pancreas was heaving, my bile ducts ripped.
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| Original Score: 3/4
You never know exactly what lunacy lurks around the corner, or just how far Rogen and Goldberg will push the R rating to its limit.
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| Original Score: 4/4
It's the wildest screen comedy in a long time, and also the smartest, the most fearlessly inspired, and the snort-out-loud funniest.
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| Original Score: A
The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with This Is the End, an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy.
Rogen and Goldberg (making their directorial debuts) get the balance just right, with one gut-busting punchline and situation after another set against the escalating dread of the end of existence, taking place just outside of James Franco's house.
Offsets its slightly smug premise with a clever sense of self-parody and near-cataclysmic levels of vulgarity.
...occupies a frequently hilarious middle ground between their Apatow-produced bromances, the giddy gruesomeness of the recent Aftershock and the confined social abrasiveness of It's a Disaster.
