Movie Review: This is the End

I don’t typically catch many comedies at the theater, but the trailers for This is the End looked outrageously funny. Often times comedies don’t live up to the billing because the best scenes are in the trailers, but This is the End absolutely lived up to its billing and then some. Starring a bunch of young Hollywood actors playing themselves, a house warming party is going on at James Franco’s house just as the apocalypse is about to go down. When all hell breaks loose, a group of survivors including Seth Rogan and Jonas Hill barricade themselves into Franco’s house. They have a limited amount of supplies and have to survive each other and the apocalypse.

This movie is raunchy and irreverent. The actors portray themselves in the worst light possible and have no problem poking fun at themselves. So many of the scenes are over the top and outrageous, and it all fits the movie well. Some of my favorite scenes included when the guys inside of the house are kicking around a decapitated head, and when Emma Watson breaks into the house and later breaks out of the house wielding an axe. The writing in this movie is excellent and scene after scene is funny. There was even some cool FX that you don’t normally find in a comedy. If you are not easily offended, this is a movie that I would highly recommend.