Let me start by saying my day is not going well. The paper had the wrong show time for my movie which not only had me at the theater 45 minutes too early, but my pity date couldn't make the new time due to having to go to work. Parking was cut off due to numerous graduations at the same location, the market was out of cherries, the app on my phone for a free hot dog was not working and after getting my free popcorn, I realized I left my insulin at home. Things were not boding well as I ventured into a movie about a comic look at the apocalypse.
The film stars Jay Barachul (the voice of Hiccup in How to train your Dragon) and Seth Rogan as they go to a party at James Franco's house in Hollywood. There we get to see rapid drug use, loose sexual acts and general over the top behavior. Of course this is all just from Michael Cera. Before you can forget what the movie is about and start thinking it is a documentary about a Hollywood party, the rapture begins and quite literally all Hell breaks loose.
Now at this point I do need to point out that this movie is rated R and it is a hard R for language and gratuitous Demon penis's. There is a lot of violence as people are impaled, beheaded and/or fall in to a bottomless pit to hell. The remainder of the films centers on what seems like the last people left, James Franco, Seth Rogan, Jay Baruchul, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and Jonah Hill. This is a seriously dark comedy and not intended for everybody. We lost two in our audience early on as the only two women in the crowd decided it was not for them.
Actors and comedians all play ■■■■■■■ versions of themselves that they helped write. Keep your eyes peeled for cameos ranging from Channing Tatum to McLovin himself, Christopher Mintze-Platse. As we delve deeper into the story, things get darker and one wonders just how it hit a finale. This movie is crude, rude and lascivious (and I don't even know what lascivious means, go ahead, google it. I'll wait.)
Half way through we are treated to the groups version of what Pinapple Express 2 would look like. Later one member is raped by a demon. The following attmept at an exorcism is a riot.
To think you are going to get a happy ending in a movie about the end of the world is asking a lot, yet somehow it sort of happens. EW gave this an A, a rare rating.
I on the other hand will go with a 3.5 test strips. I laughed out loud through most of it, but I do have a sick sense of humor. There have been a lot of better movies this year and many more to come. In a sick sort of way, this was a fun yet extremely crude ride. Do not take the kids or the squeamish. Blood does flow.
