Meant to be bad!

Rating: 4/10 (2 December 2014)

OK, so This is the End is bad. Let's just get that out of the way. Yeah, it has plenty of sexual innuendo - well more than that, and a ton of drug and alcohol humor and pratfalls. Yes, it is bad, but it was meant to be bad. Once you get past that, you can actually open up a bit and allow yourself to be entertained. Honestly, I am convinced that James Franco and Seth Rogen dreamed up the plot in a crack-induced haze. In fact, they even spoof on that within the movie itself. So in order to appreciate this film, you need remember that it never takes itself seriously and neither should you.
In summary, the film is about a small group of actors who are trapped inside James Franco's home with limited supplies as the end of the world takes place just outside the doors. The actors play shallow, self indulgent, arrogant, egotistical, narcissistic versions of themselves. In other words, they are playing to just how the public perceives them to be! And that's where the jokes really stem from. With all the hot messes in Hollywood, it's hard to see any actor as an educated adult who simply has a career in entertainment. We see them as over-celebrated, spoiled, sex-crazed, alcoholic drug addicts, with no morals, too much money and completely out of touch with the real world. And that's EXACTLY the way they play themselves!
Once you get that joke, everything else falls in to place and it's really not all THAT bad. But don't expect it to be good. It's not. It's sick, satirical, very dark humor and it is meant to be distasteful and even offensive. They did that on purpose to shock you. See it once so you can see just what a twisted sense of humor Rogen, Franco, Baruchel, Hill, McBride and Robinson actually have.
I would have given the film an extra star if only they would have cast a Kardashian in to the abyss!