Absolutely gut-busting comedy!

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2014)

I was amazed to find more than a couple of bad reviews of this movie here, but, so it goes. To each his own, I guess.
For me, "This Is The End" had everything I would want in a movie with this all-star comedy cast. It's a pull-no-punches-bar-no-expletives-the-grosser-the-better howler. Seldom do I laugh out loud more than once or twice in a comedy. Usually - and I don't think I'm alone in this opinion - there are those scenes, at most two, that everyone talks about in a comedy that produce the helpless outburst of laughter. If it's a good comedy, the rest of the movie is made up of 'chuckle scenes'. And that's all I expect or can hope for, and it's good enough for me.
"This Is The End" is made up almost entirely of uproarious, pee-in-your-pants funny stuff, and there were few moments when I WASN'T laughing out loud. I'm not going to go into any plot descriptions or critiques of artistry, etc here. Suffice it to say that this movie succeeded in taking the stuff that writers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg & Jason Stone were probably cracking each other up with and translating it to the big screen. All of the actors give each other rafts of %#*@&$* throughout the movie, every pompous balloon is loudly exploded and no face is left, um, un-pied, shall we say. The result is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen in my life. And that's WAY MORE than good enough for me.