This post
contains absolutely NO spoilers to the 2013 movie, This is the
End. No worries.
I don't know why I haven't written
about This is the End yet,
but I think it's about time I do considering I saw it for the second
time last night. The end-of-the-world comedy, written by Seth Rogen
and Evan Goldberg, was released in mid-June and stars a plethora of
actors and celebrities as themselves, including Rogen, Jay Baruchel,
James Franco, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, and Danny McBride (all of
whom have starred with each other in endless movies such as Pineapple
Express and Knocked
Up).
Appearances are also made
by Emma Watson, Rihanna, Michael Cera, Jason Segel, Mindy Kaling,
Channing Tatum, and many, many more.
The
movie starts out light, just some guys getting high and listening to
the Backstreet Boys. After partying at James Franco's new house, Seth
and Jay go out to get food when an earthquake knocks Seth down and
Jay sees what appears to be blue beams coming down from the sky and
taking people up in them. They run back to Franco's, where the party
breaks up and several people fall into a giant sink hole (fair game,
it's in the trailer). Only the main guys are left. They decide to
stay in the house and wait it out, but problems arise between them.
Jay
has to learn how to deal with the guys he never wanted to spend the
night with anyway while he and Seth also have to fight to keep their
friendship alive and everyone in general has to survive what they
assume is just some
crazy storm.
This is the End
is an utterly ridiculous movie. I mean, I wasn't expecting some of
those scenes or conversations (I don't know why I wasn't. These are
the same guys from Knocked Up).
It should go without saying that this is a movie you don't watch with
your parents. But it's so funny that you should really only drink
between scene changes because I started choking on some soda about
ten minutes in and almost had to leave.
The
turn the movie took about half-way through was surprising. Walking
out of the theater, my friend who had seen it for the first time last
night said, “What the hell. The first forty-five minutes: comedy,
comedy, comedy. But I was scared shitless close to the end. I thought
this was supposed to be light-hearted.” I reminded her we could've
seen The Conjuring.
