In the end, it was a pretty good movie. Very smart comedy movie with a little bit of stupidity.

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2013)

First let me say, I actually like this funny movie, even with the stupid crude college frat boy humor. It's one of the smartest comedies, these actors have even done. It had some depth, and make light into a lot of post-apocalypse social issues. The movie is based on a short comedy film written by writer-actors Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and director Jason Stone called 'Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse'. When the trailer for the short film hit YouTube in 2007, it got over 50,000 hits in the first two weeks. Thus, 'This is the End' was green light to be made. I love the fact, that 'This is the End' has a self-reference, Charles Kaufman type feel to the film. The film has the real life actors portraying fictional version of themselves in a fictional end of the world story. Most of them played it completely straight and in doing so they've get the best comedy that's come out in a long time. Surprising Michael Cera playing this version of Michael Cera was the best thing for his career. It was pretty new to see him in this type of a role, even if it was short. Some of the celebs cameos were just way too short. I just wish, Kevin Hart and Jason Segal had a bigger role. I glad, Rhianna had a smaller role. She can't act, best to keep her role to a cameo otherwise it would ruin the vibe of the movie. There was also a very secret cameo in the Cannibalism scene worth checking out. Most of the main cast did a great job. Danny McBride pretty much made the movie, watchable. Craig Robinson and Seth Rogen was probably the most love character in the film. The other characters were a bit unlikable. I just couldn't stand Jay Baruchel in this movie at all. I felt the role that Jonah Hill got, didn't suite his personality. I don't know how they act around people in real life, but it was pretty interesting seeing them play the closest thing to just being themselves. Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen combined real characteristics of the actors who then produced bizarre alt-version of themselves with elements that had absolutely nothing in common with the cast. Every main cast member took the director aside and told him that they couldn't do what he was asking him to because it was going too far and getting too extreme besides James Franco. So I doubt they were really horrible people in real life. The movie push the boundaries of humor to the extremes with over the top shock value scenes with serious issues like rape and cannibalism. What other comedy movie could make a serious issue such as 'rape' seem a little bit funny? There were some limits to the humor. James Franco asked Director Seth Rogen if his brother, Dave, could have a part. Rogen decided not to have the family of its main stars, brothers & sisters, mothers & fathers, girlfriends & wives in the movie because those people would have been most likely killed off in the movie causing it to become too dark. The movie starts out with all the actors hanging out at James Franco's house for a party, when the apocalypse hits. The chaos has forced the men to take shelter and try to survive in this new world. Slowly, the men are forced to take the apocalypse serious, and look closer into their own life, and ask themselves did they live a righteous enough to go to heaven. I was surprised at the religiousness of it all. This movie might offended some Christians and Atheisms with its biblical overtones, but I just say 'lighten up', it's just a movie. It does make the movie a little bit preachy for my taste in some areas. Still in the end, the movie says that acting stupid, mean-spirited, one-dimensional, offensive, and retarded man child, just show that in the end, doesn't help you in the apocalypse. Some audience members will be a bit angry that their famous celebs end up biting the dust. I just say, don't worry, you're favorite celeb didn't die in real life. I do like the CGI in the film. It was pretty high tech. The demons really look scary. The jokes here are hit and miss. Some of the jokes in the film got tiresome. Too much cuss words, gross out humor, sexual content, and racial humor was just as one-dimensional as ever. It wasn't ground breaking humor. I did like the parodies and satires here to both Hollywood and religionists lifestyles. I thought the Drug Humor was just awful. Because of those, I did leave the theater with mixed feelings. It wasn't impressive. It felt like a mediocre version of pretty bad modern comedies. In my opinion, this movie was just a better version of 2010's Grown Ups. I did like the funny homemade Pineapple Express 2 film. According to Rogen and Goldberg, the homemade Pineapple Express 2 film in which this movie depicts is what they envision for the actual sequel. So maybe we will see a real version of that one day. Overall: great movie, just not that great.