Review: 'This Is the End' weirdly compelling LOS ANGELES --- The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with "This Is the End," an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young stars and stars-by-affiliation jokingly imagine their own mortality.
June 19, 2013 - Savannah Morning News
Arts/Entertainment LOS ANGELES — The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with “This Is the End,” an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young stars and stars-by-affiliation jokingly imagine their own mortality. A sort-of “The Day of ...
June 15, 2013 - San Mateo Daily Journal
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