This Is The End (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen)

[Henry Gale]

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[Henry Gale]

Thinking about how this movie begins compared to how it ends...

Just incredibly, consistently, deeply funny stuff, but just as surprisingly thoughtful and thorough with its character dynamics and how it develops and escalates big, frightening stakes all along the way.

It's exactly as wonderfully, unapologetically bizarre and juvenile as I had hoped, but surprisingly economical with its strangest and silliest material. It all amounts to one of the very best comedies of this, or maybe even the last few years for me.

Superman, you oddly have a lot to compete with this weekend!

[Mal]

Funny, odd... I did not expect to like this film much, if at all, because of the cast - but they played off each other very well and their personas here are all fully developed. I enjoyed nearly every moment, hardly any of the jokes fell flat to me.

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The Clash of the Titans-esque animation that seemed so wrong and yet so right... Emma Watson and the Rosemary's Baby homage had me howling, erect demon penis and all, though Craig Robinson really stole the show for me drawing the burnt match. And fucking Michael Cera on cocaine. LOL.

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James Franco's best performance of the year (so far).

[plain]

i'm a fan as well, further thoughts here: http://serenecinema.wordpress.com/20...is-is-the-end/

[wigwam]

:|

[Fezzik]

I liked it as well. I expected the laughs and the moments of idiocy, but what surprised me the most was that I actually gave a damn about these guys.

Michael Cera was great, as was McBride. Franco had my favorite line:

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"Call me The Prince of Persia."

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The cameos were all great, and the one at the very end made me laugh so hard, i almost lost my breath.

[Ezee E]

Mostly good, even if it falter a little when it does try to advance plot, it's better that it doesn't have the Apatow-curse of just people hanging around, although I find the movie best in the pieces where they are hanging around. I can't pick out what my favorite bit is, and that's probably a good thing. Also, it's a comedy that's actually funny from beginning to end, although I think the [

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Channing Tatum part goes a little too far

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Wait, may have laughed the hardest at [

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Seth Rogen thinking he was shot by McBride

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Hmm... I almost think the villainous turn at the end would've been better if it was played by Emma Watson.

The use of special effects was pretty great... Yeah, enjoyable stuff here.

[Watashi]

The first movie that made me root for Jay Baruchel. That's a triumph in its own.

[number8]

This was incredible.

[number8]

"We should make more sequels of our movies."
"Let's not make Your Highness 2 though."

[Ezee E]

The only additional thing they needed was for Michel Gondry to be in that house for more "sequels."

[Pop Trash]

Anyone wanna spoil the ending for me? I had to catch the last train with five minutes to spare. Goddamn summer movie trailers.

[Henry Gale]

Anyone wanna spoil the ending for me? I had to catch the last train with five minutes to spare. Goddamn summer movie trailers.

Well, there's a very specific trajectory towards the end, so not sure exactly where you left off, and I'd say you're much better off just catching up with it, watching the insanity unfold, but: [

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After Franco ruins his chance to ascend by flipping off McBride, Jay and Seth run away from McBride's gang and are eventually cornered by enormous, towering Satan, giant dick swinging and everything. Certain they're going to die, Jay makes amends with Seth, and that leads to the blue beam shining down to lift him up, but not Seth. Seth grabs his hand, but as they go higher they come to the realization that Jay won't go any higher with Seth weighing him down. The beam also acts as a sort of force-field that Satan is burned by and can't penetrate while Seth tells Jay that he doesn't deserve to go with him, accepts his fate and lets go, sacrificing himself (all while Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" plays). We then see Jay continue to ascend as Seth falls from the sky, while Satan opens his mouth swallow him.

Seth falls deeper and deeper into Satan's mouth, down his throat, when SUDDENLY a beam suspends Seth, ripping Satan in half, dick included, and it lifts him towards Jay, who giddily link arms and await whatever's next.

After the blue portal slowly becomes white, cloudy and quieter. They realize they're at the gates of Heaven, where Craig greets them (Mr. Robinson towel intact), bestows gold halos on them that Seth exclaims he always wanted. Craig then walks them through the giant doors to heaven, where they're greeted to a ridiculous, Diddy-White Party Disneyland of music, dancing, giant roller coasters, flying objects and weed. Seth is seemingly astonished only at the weed, which Craig goes onto explain how you can have anything you wish for in Heaven. Jay ponders, "Anything?"...

He thinks, then, out from the crowd, we slowly see the people parting, mouths agape, as five, decked out men emerge. Music revs up, we see AJ, Brian, Nick, Howie and even Kevin.

Everybody. Rock your body. Backstreet's Back.

The endless crowd of people go nuts and dance even harder than they likely ever did on Earth. Jay and Seth once again bond over the song they jammed to at the beginning for some reason. Heaven is everything they could've ever dreamed of.

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I kinda hope someone with no interest in ever seeing this stumbles upon my description of that and immediately reverses their apathy towards checking it out. Even if it did spoil the whole ending..

[Pop Trash]

I don't know why, since it seems like it wouldn't be that funny, but the possessed Jonah Hill bit made me laugh so hard tears came down.

[Rowland]

Sometimes hilarious, and at least as often painfully unfunny, this works best when considered through the prism of Buñuelian satire. Still, compare the lazy tripping-on-drugs sequence here with the far-superior one featured in 21 Jump Street. And while I admire how far Rogen and Goldberg go with the ending, the best comedic capper they could imagine within that inspired context was [spoiler cameo]? C'mon guys, that's just lame. Or is that part of the joke? Whatever the case, Superbad and Pineapple Express remain their most successful collaborations by a comfortable margin.

[Milky Joe]

Often hilarious, and about as often painfully unfunny, this works best when considered through the prism of Buñuelian satire.

Ah, yes. I do recall a moment from Buñuel where the two leads had an extended argument about exactly where and how hard they would ejaculate on one another. A spot on critique if I may say so.

[Sven]

... with the far-superior one featured in 21 Jump Street.

That was superior to something? Goodness. [/hater]

[Rowland]

A spot on critique if I may say so.

Critic Eric Henderson says it best:

"This is the End shows a group of stoned, over-privileged, under-achieving posers trying to fake their way into heaven by doing the barest minimum of worthy work … and earning eternal rewards. That's Hollywood!"

[Bosco B Thug]

That was superior to something? Goodness. [/hater]

I know we're duking it out in the Superman thread, but yes, this, so much. Please let me join you in the 21 Jump Street hater club.

[Pop Trash]

I know we're duking it out in the Superman thread, but yes, this, so much. Please let me join you in the 21 Jump Street hater club.

Are you a hipster? Those jeans are pretty tight. I bet you hate movies everyone else likes. Like 21 Jump Street.

[Bosco B Thug]

Are you a hipster? Those jeans are pretty tight. I bet you hate movies everyone else likes. Like 21 Jump Street.

Yeah, they're totally cutting off circulation and my ability to enjoy 21 Jump Street. (I actually like the film, but I hated that trip sequence).

[eternity]

There are enough humorous moments for this to not be a bust, but it definitely wears out its welcome by the time things get truly apocalyptic.

[TGM]

Is it just me, or does this movie pick up where Cabin in the Woods left us off?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Ultimately, a nay from me. It would be dishonest to say the film didn't have hilarious moments. There were a few that had me laughing pretty hard. That said, it was obvious they didn't have much to offer beyond the concept of those five guys trying to survive the apocalypse. The film took way too long getting to where we all knew it was going, and lost its charm well before that. They put their one shallow theme on repeat for 90 minutes and threw in a terrible amount of dick and gay sex jokes to fill the down time, a topic they find much funnier than I do.

[D_Davis]

I didn't want to see this movie, but then last night my friend told me that there is a lot of demon cock in it.