This Is The End

We've seen disaster movies before. Tons. We've seen big explosions. We've seen the cliche characters you're supposed to easily connect with. Give me something different.

Oh...celebrities...?

That's...

BRILLIANT!

I seriously LOVED this idea! What better way to write real people than have real people? What better way to have something we haven't seen then have real people we haven't actually seen? Sure this was going to be tongue in cheek, self satirization. But when it comes down to it, all these guys are going to be doing is playing themselves and having fun playing themselves. What could really go wrong, considering Seth Rogen would be writing it with Evan Goldberg?

There's a lot to love in this movie. It has a great sense of humor (obviously), but celebrities are absolutely relatable but also just distant enough to keep the respect of them as celebrities. That allows us to not fully relate with them, keeping us in our movie theatre seats enough to have fun watching celebrities. I love the idea of tackling a Christian apocalypse. The sheer ridiculousness of Rogen and Baruchel talking about religious repentance is hilarious considering at least Rogen is Jewish and Baruchel associates as agnostic.

The movie looked surprisingly great - fog and steam and fire that made it look like a campy bad movie set, but when the demons came in and huge shots of the decimated city looked pretty darn great. Dare I say it? The demons were pretty scary looking!

I loved the relationships they had with each other on screen. I loved how Jonah Hill was as ditzy and air headed as he was in so many of his roles, while his fellow cast members were constantly reminding him that he was now an oscar nominated actor. I had a particular amount of fun of them criticizing their own  movies, especially when talking about sequels for movies they were in, and one of them cutting in with "let's NOT do Your Highness 2." The satirization was just brutal enough to themselves to keep us laughing, while not so brutal that it became uncomfortable.

All in all, this movie is a great addition to Seth Rogen comedies, and everyone in it does a dynamite job at keeping us laughing and having fun with this really clever premise.

Rank - 4/5