If you like ridiculous, yet stylish apocalyptic comedy, it's for you!

Rating: 9/10 (2 July 2013)

I went to see this film last weekend and I had been really excited to see it for a while beforehand. I had read some reviews, and seen the trailers and my first thought was that I would love it, and I was right! But here's why:
The first most notable thing is the cast. Seth, Franco, Craig, Jay, Jonah and Danny work together fantastically as a strangely plausible group of 'friends'. As they are playing versions of themselves, a lot of the humour is drawn from that itself, there is even a part where Seth and James attempt a mock sequel to Pineapple Express. Not just this, but there are plenty of other celebrity appearances, from the likes of Rihanna, Emma Watson, Kevin Hart and Michael Cera to name a few. These too are acting as exaggerated versions of themselves, that is if you class what Rihanna is doing as 'acting'...
The next thing is, how ridiculous does the humour actually get? I say this because even I was worried it would become more of a 'spoof' film, such as Scary Movie, although not as bad. Well, to be quite honest, it does get fairly ridiculous, from the "Exorcism of Jonah Hill", to Danny McBride becoming the leader of a gang of cannibals and Seth Rogen tearing off the genitals of Satan himself as he gets beamed to Heaven, I'll let you decide what is funny and what is not. Personally, I loved every second of it. Although some of the CGI wasn't up to scratch at times, it is still far more entertaining than the likes of Disaster Movie for example, by an immeasurable amount and somehow, I think they pull it off. As far as offensiveness goes, I think you'd have to be completely pathetic to get offended by anything in this film, although it does go out of it's way to add things in that people may (and are likely) to find offensive. But it's all in brilliantly good humour.
Overall, I highly recommend this film and I might even go see it at the cinema again. On a final note, besides all the hilarity and zany antics, it actually does get you thinking about religion and what it takes to get into heaven (assuming it exists). It might sound strange, but give it a watch and you'll see what I mean. You won't regret it.