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Rob’s Review: This Is The End
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Letter Grade:
B+ |
The Good: Good performances from actors, including a standout appearance by Michael Cera The Bad: Quite campy and cheesy. |
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Cast & Crew: Writer: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen Rated R for crude and sexual content throughout, brief graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence |
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Fair warning, don’t pay too much attention to the letter grade on this one, your enjoyment of This Is The End is going to vary greatly depending on your taste. It’s ridiculous, cheesy, and over-the-top, but it works a lot better than I expected it to.
Photo courtesy Columbia Pictures
The actors play versions of themselves here. Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen are best friends who have drifted apart after Rogen moved to Hollywood and Baruchel stayed behind in Canada. Rogen has made friends with James Franco, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, and Danny McBride (to the extent that anyone can be friends with McBride) and Baruchel is threatened by this. Rogen tries to bring them all together at a party at Franco’s house while Baruchel is in town. Things at the party don’t go well, and THEN the apocalypse happens. The worthy are raptured up into Heaven, which leaves the unworthy (including everybody at the party) to be tormented on Earth. The group holes up in Franco’s house to avoid the raging fires, giant sinkholes, and marauding demons. (more…)
New Trailer: This Is The End
New International trailer for This Is The End, now with more Emma Watson. From the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express: Hollywood celebrities play “themselves” facing the end of the world in LA, and they are utterly unprepared for it. Starring James Franco, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson, with cameos from many more stars.
Red Band… TV Spot???: This is the End
Ok, I’m kind of confused by this… what exactly is the point of an R-rated television spot?
(Remember, Red Band means cursing.)
*Photo courtesy Columbia Pictures
Red-Band Trailer: Rapture-Palooza
Craig Robinson has been a very busy man apparently. Peeples this month, This Is The End in July, and now Rapture-Palooza in June. In Rapture-Palooza he plays the Anti-Christ and Anna Kendrick and John Francis Daley are on a quest to defeat him. Also stars Ken Jeong, Rob Corddry, Tom Lennon, Ana Gasteyer, and Paul Scheer. Written by Chris Matheson (Bill and Teds’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey) and directed by Paul Middleditch.
I was actually surprised how funny I found the trailer.
Rapture-Palooza is scheduled for a June 7th release.
*Note: Red-Band Trailer means there’s cursing.
Summer Movie Preview: June
It’s time for the next installment of our summer movie preview, this time we look all the way into June, 2013. “Zombies”, and Monsters, and Shakespeare, oh my!
The Internship
Release Date: June 7th
Synopsis: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson get laid off and enter an internship program at Google where they must compete with younger, smarter interns for a job with the search giant. Also features Rose Byrne, B.J. Novak, Josh Gad, and Aasif Mandvi. Directed by Shawn Levy (Real Steel, Date Night, and the Night at the Museum franchise).
Our Thoughts:
Rob: I have a feeling that, for better or worse, you’re going to get exactly what you expect out of this one.
Jennie: I hope this movie is funnier than the trailer suggests. Also, am I the only one who thinks it’s strange that the old guy in the wheelchair knows who Charles Xavier is but they don’t have any clue?
Dave: I got to imagine if you’re an old, bald, professor in a wheelchair, you hear the reference from time to time.
Dave: I think the trailer looks funny enough. I generally enjoy the combination of Vaughn and Wilson, but I foresee waiting to see this one on on DVD. Looks like it may be the type of movie that shows you the funniest stuff in the trailer…but i guess you never know.
Nicki: I love this team. They could read the phone book and make me laugh. Just the scene of “What? What?!” alone, makes me want to see it.
