A hell of a lot of fun

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2013)

Jay Baruchel has just arrived in LA, a city he is not too fond of, and is staying with his best friend, Seth Rogan. Seth is determined to make Jay's stay in LA a good one and everything goes as planned until Seth drags Jay to James Franco's house-warming party.
This Is The End is one big inside joke where the funniest comedic actors working today jump in front of the screen all too willing to make fun of themselves. Between a cameo by Michael Cera and Danny McBride, it's the villains that steal the show. No matter how horrifying the events escalate outside, even when demonic figures rise from hell through a pit in James Franco's front yard, nothing is as frightening as having to be isolated with Danny McBride. Or even Jonah Hill.
Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg have never really written anything more than bromance comedies that all follow the same plot points, thus all playing out as the same film just with different settings and characters. Dudes who already know each other become best friends after an adventure but not before fighting, getting all dramatic and making up with heavy homosexual undertones. With This Is The End, they prove not only to be capable directors but also better writers than they have lead us to believe through their past work. Though this one follows the same formula, it works better than ever before and the rest is non-stop laughs.
What's truly an achievement is that This Is The End works as a hilarious stoner comedy, an inside joke that allows the average viewer in on what they're making fun of and an excellent apocalyptic nightmare put to film. It's a hell of a lot of fun.