This is The End

This is the End, directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, was a different sort of comedy where the actors play themselves in a apocalyptic situation. It was everything I thought it would be.

The main characters in the movie are Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel. Jay had come to California to visit his good friend, Seth. After a couple hours of hanging out and getting high, Seth suggests they go to James Franco's house for his house warming party. Jay doesn't want to go because he doesn't really like the new crowd that Seth hangs out with, but he finally gives in.

So anyway, they go to the party, and Jay is having pretty much zero fun, because he hates everyone there. He comes up with the excuse of going to the convenience store so that he can escape the party. Seth goes with him. While they are out, there is an "earthquake", and Jay witnesses people being sucked up into the sky with blue rays that have come down from the heavens. Jay immediately thinks it's the apocalypse, and the ones that have been taken by the blue rays are people who have devoted themselves to God. They hurry back to Franco's house where no one has noticed anything happened. Obviously, nobody at James Franco's party has what it takes to get chosen for heaven. But there is another earthquake soon after that, and everyone runs outside, where most of them die. I won't give away any specifics here, because that would ruin it but there is a lot of death.

A few people run back into the house. The ones that make it are, Jay, Seth, James Franco, Jonah Hill (much to Jay's dismay as he hates Jonah), and Craig Robinson. They decide it will be best to wait it out in the house, so they board everything up and ration out the food. Then they go to bed.

The next morning, they find out they have another house guest. Danny McBride had passed out in the bathroom before anything had happened the night before. So he gets up and cooks up a majority of the food in a nice breakfast, not knowing that's all the food they have to survive this out. They all get up and try to tell him what happened the night before, and he doesn't believe them. He's kind of an ass. Then some random guy sticks his head through a hole in the boards and it gets chopped off, and Danny starts to believe them.

The situation intensifies when they run out of water. And people start talking bad about each other and teaming up. Danny gets kicked out of the house by popular vote - then makes the decision to leave on his own after everyone feels bad.

Things start to get out of control and they have to leave the house and go out into the real world. It's chaotic and everything is burning. No people are left alive. The group loses a few people along the way, but the movie really does have a happy ending (kinda).

It's hard to review the acting in this movie, because they are playing themselves. I really don't think most of this is true to character, but some parts I definitely think are.  I can't even compare this to anything else I have ever seen because nothing like this has ever been done, to my knowledge. Even though it was a comedy, there were a few parts where I jumped. And a few parts where I squeezed my boyfriend's hand so hard, I think it was about to fall off. But overall, it was just funny, in a very twisted way.

I think you can really tell in this movie that these boys enjoy working together. Sure, they play limited roles. But they are good at what they do, so why change? I imagine this would have been a super fun movie to be a part of even as just an extra. They had some fun cameo appearances by Micheal Cera, Emma Watson, Channing Tatum, Paul Rudd, and Jason Segel (my biggest celebrity crush ever).



If you enjoy dark comedy, then this is for you. It's pretty vulgar, kinda raunchy, and more gore than I expected. But I LOVED it! So, I hope you all get a chance to see it in theaters or rent it for home viewing.




Thanks for reading!