This Is The End movie review

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Let me put your mind at ease.  If you were worried that the funniest parts of This Is The End were shown in the various red band and green band trailers, they weren't.  Plenty of everything has been left for your viewing pleasure: humor, raunch, action, and ... horror?

Well, yeah.  Horror.  This is a film about "the end", after all.  There's demons, demonic possession, hellfire, brimstone, cheap scares.  The works.  And all of this is crafted through a pretty simple story.
Does this simple story work?  Well, these aren't high-end special effects in this movie, and it wasn't written by anyone that most moviegoers would argue is the greatest screenwriter of all time.

The bottom line is yes.  It works and for a great reason--the comedic talents of this group of guys.
The interplay of Rogen et al feels fresh from beginning to end.  Lines don't seem forced to make the jokes within and about each other.  They take things in stride and seem like what they are: rich, funny guys being put to the test of survival.  By comparison, my buddies and I would be poor guys dabbling in the mediocrity of funny being put to the test of survival.

I don't begrudge them for being richer though.  Especially because they seem to learn some valuable lessons about friendship and salvation as the movie continues.  Sort of.

Like any of their other movies, just know that hilarity ensues when they are put in a room together.  Is it their best work as individuals?  Definitely not.  But like chocolate cake, their whole turns out even better than their parts. **** out of 5