It's a movie! Lighten up!

Rating: 7/10 (21 September 2013)

I rate a movie on how much I enjoyed it. I don't over analyze the script or compare it to movies from the past or rate how historically significant it will be. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much did I enjoy it within it's own context. I gave it a seven, which I did not expect to do going into this movie.
I don't understand why people go to or rent a movie starring James Franco, Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson and DANNY MCBRIDE and expect high art! These people are the current kings of potty humor and over the top slapstick! Good grief people, lighten up. I am normally the person in the crowd who just doesn't get the current crop of gross-out crude just for the sake of crude trend of humor nowadays but I got a kick out of this movie.
I am not really a laugh out loud kind of person when it comes to movies, no matter how funny I think it is, but I have to say I smiled for easily half the movie and laughed out loud a couple times. By the end I realized that my cheeks were just a bit sore from smiling. Some fun cameos, better special effects than I ever would have expected, and the usual gross out stuff that you would expect from every one of these actors. Plenty of drug use, foul language, nudity and other gratuitous stuff. Pretty par for the course nowadays. Why would you expect anything else? And why would anybody think the devil would wear pants? Of course his junk would be hanging out, and why wouldn't he be hung?
This movie is so over the top and unbelievable that you just have to relax and go with it. Is it high art? No. Will it get nominated for ANYTHING? Unlikely. It's an absurd and silly movie and you folks just need to lighten up. Other than James Franco, who has done some fine work in the past, look at these actors' bodies of work and then tell me again how you expected an intelligent and redeeming movie.