A Totally Polarizing Film!

Rating: 6/10 (5 September 2013)

"This is the End" is a fantasy pipe dream about what will happen if the end of the world happens in LA just when a party is happening at actor James Franco's house.
This movie gathers James and his real-life gang of friends Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson and the most raucous, brashest and biggest a**hole of them all, Danny McBride. There were several cameos from several stars, like Michael Cera, Rihanna, Paul Rudd, Emma Watson, and Channing Tatum in scenes you simply have to see to believe it.
They all look like they had a lot of fun as the script (if there was one) took them for a grand ride from one movie genre to another. There is disaster, horror, action, sci-fi, and, heaven forbid, even religious! Of course, above all, there's the comedy.
Comedy, of course, is in the eye of the beholder. This movie has some of the most insulting, crass, green, off-color, dirty, sacrilegious, drugged, misogynistic, offensive spoken and physical jokes of all time thrown at you mile a minute. If you are the sensitive type, you might even walk out of this rambunctious mayhem even before the half way point. However, if you are of the majority of their young fans, you will be laughing out loud all throughout its running time!
I am finding it very hard to rate this movie. I admit I was laughing at a lot of the outrageously hilarious stupidity being shown on screen. However, I have to admit some of those jokes were really low blows. I just blame it all on Hollywood crudeness. This is a polarizing film you will either really enjoy or totally hate.