Party at Franco's

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2014)

Well this is off beat. It looks like the boys were inspired by the film Zombieland when Bill Murray turned up in his mansion as Bill Murray.
Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Emily Watson and even Rihanna appear as themselves.
They attend a party at Franco's new house where Michael Cera makes a fool of himself and before you know it there is an apocalyptic catastrophe as the earth opens up and swallows up most of the guests.
The surviving celebrities try to make do with the available rations of food and water, deal with the erratic and selfish Danny McBride. They then have to turn exorcist on Jonah Hill and figure out that if they are better people. Then there might be redemption.
It is very easy to watch this film and sneer as a few of them have made patchy films in the past.
I did find myself chuckling a few times. It's light and breezy, some of it is rather clever.
It was a good move to see the film initially from Baruchel's viewpoint as he is the one who is less famous of the lot.