Review of This Is the End

Starting out slowly as a buddy movie with James Franco as The Asshole, after 15 minutes it's disaster time, and by the time Emma Watson comes out of the bedroom wielding an axe, we are in full thriller mode. The genre surfing hasn't ended yet: we go through a zombie phase, CGI monsters appear in the best SF yle and by the time Channing Tatum is being kicked around as a sex slave we are in full Italian schlock mode. How all this can end in the Backstreet Boys performing, is for you to find out. The improvisation sometimes leads to a little stoner discussion slowdown, but soon there will be a big boom, a head chopped off, a werewolf devil trying to do unspeakable deeds, or someone who gets eaten. And then there is the great buildup of the scenario, the inevitable moral reckoning of many an actor, and the delightfully loud music score. There seem to be a few people who do not find all this incredibly funny and well done. Well screw them.