freewheeling craziness

Rating: 6/10 (15 September 2013)

It is a film so stupid that makes you doubt that it is clever ( ?) The question remains of how everything is intended or unintended . Certainly the idea is original and intelligent to interpret the role of the actors themselves, that is a group of Hollywood actors involved to get high as they could at a party super- kitsch , when the apocalypse comes . The two authors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg , along with Judd Apalow , carry on for some years a type of teen comedy - demented , which is added in this case a portion of the John Belushi's catastrofism. The great Belushi had , however , for his neurotic character , a note of self- irony here is much less noticeable . There is a total identification being spoiled , selfish , superficial . The childishness irremediable , the actors - characters put out in front of the drama of the end of the world , it is absolutely convincing enough to make me think if by chance they are not really so or this is rather an indication of directors are directors or to be childish ( complication : Seth Rogen is both an actor and director), the fact is that throughout the movie I had no doubt that these people are more or less so in reality. Doubt reinforced by the fact that Emma Watson ( Hermione Henry Potter ) is also present in the role of herself and instead has a behavior quite "normal" for the situation , quite different from the others, that look like real idiots . Having created this effect of ambiguity seems to me already an extraordinary result ( pure craziness : the artist - not the zany character - seems insane without being one ) , only that it would be worthwhile to see the movie . For a good chunk of the movie you do not know what will happen , and so far its ramshackle vulgarity is tolerable , with moments of comedy in my opinion failed. Then when the voltage has to find a solution, the story slips into banality. The finish is so obvious and silly as to be almost irrelevant. An experiment challenging but ends in a caricatured .