Monday, January 20, 2014

This is the End (Of Someone's Career I hope)

I was pretty excited to jump into This is the End. It has funny people everywhere and is Judd Apatow's wet dream of a cast. Seth Rogan (Writer/producer as well), James Franco, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and amazing cameos from Michael Cera, Rihanna, but especially Emma Watson & Channing Tatum (also not as great from Paul Rudd, Aziz Ansari, & Mindy Kaling). It's loaded CLEARLY, but the movie strays from the star power. It follows the group as they play out some real life rumors/etc about their "Hollywood" selves. Baruchel doesn't like L.A. or Rogan's "new" friends of mainly Franco and Hill. They are all vain assholes, which is a pretty funny running gag. Basically they use the plot of the end of the world to get them together to have some funny dialogue and events happen. It was a short film they tried to stretch out and sometimes it works and it's funny, but sometimes it's boring, drags on too long, and isn't funny. Honestly the redeeming quality is watching the outtakes and the guys fucking around on set. That's the real strength and that ups the blu-ray rating. Bottom Line: 7.1 out of 10. Higher rating due to really funny extra content on blu-ray. Franco and McBride talking about getting into a "jizz war" with each other is absolutely hysterical, as some other extra stuff. The guys are funny and are especially funny when fucking around with each other. McBride insulting Franco has a special place in my heart for some reason. Worth a rental, but you're not going to want to own this one I'm guessing. Hit it & quit it.

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