The reviews are in and "This Is the End" is making critics laugh with its A-list funny guys and crude humor.
Rolling Stone gave their readers a brief summation of the film:
There are scary things in "This Is the End." Way scary. Take the rampaging egos of Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Craig Robinson, Jason Segel and Jay Baruchel, who all play appallingly funny versions of themselves as Hollywood stoners facing the end of days by partying down at Franco's house. To top that, there are aliens in this movie, monsters ready to chomp on celebrity meat - that is, when they're not destroying Earth.
The film's script was a collaborative effort between Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, but reportedly the films funniest moments come through as improvised. All of the characters in the movie play themselves.
"We'd often have to stop [Hill] and [Franco] from going at each other and be like, 'You guys like each other in this movie We get it, you can make 'Moneyball' jokes all day. In this movie though, you guys wouldn't be doing that,'" Rogen told Moviefone in an interview.
Critics guarantee you will have many laughs watching this film.
"It's so good you'll think you hallucinated it," Rolling Stone magazine reported.
Though Rolling Stone raved about the film, Vulture.com disagrees, saying the film is much longer than it needs to be:
Co-directors and co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg evidently had a lot of fun sending up their posse's star personas and the apocalyptic disaster genre as a whole in This Is the End, and some of that fun is infectious. For a while. Maybe 45 minutes. But when actors look as if they're having a better time than you are, the buzz wears off fast. You turn into a wallflower at an especially obnoxious party.
Vulture.com claimed that after the first 45 minutes, viewers will find themselves asking "is this the end? Please?"
The film was released on June 12 and reportedly made $2.2 million in ticket sales its opening night.
