Poignant, humorous, and uplifting.

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2019)

So many movies portray cancer as such a dramatic, serious thing. While the disease itself certainly is serious and dramatic, this movie shows how two young, virile, energetic goofballs go about life after a diagnosis of such life-changing proportions.
The short answer is: any way they can.
Seth Rogen does such a terrific job of being Seth Rogen and, at the same time, a rock for his downtrodden, emotionally distressed, potentially dying friend.
That's why I think this movie works so well. These two guys are just a bunch of buddies who hardly take anything serious and spend the majority of their time just chilling with each other without ever having to analyze their friendship.
When Adam (Levitt) gets diagnosed he is suddenly swept off of his happy-go-lucky-live-forever perch and plunged into the dark world of chemotherapy, aches, midnight vomit, and mortality. His best friend Kyle (Rogen) is completely blown away and is simply trying to figure out what way to be there for his friend and deal with his own feelings at the same time. That's a difficult position to be in and I think he navigates that turbulence by partying, drinking, having fun, and living in the moment and taking Adam along for the ride. He has to be strong for his best friend but it's hard because he is scared of losing him. Like I said, it's very poignant and Levitt and Rogen act it beautifully.