Review: 'This Is the End' weirdly compelling

2013/06/12 15:43:54 @Entertainment News Headlines - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with & quot;This Is the End, & quot; 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 & quot;The Day of the Locust & quot; centered on successful comic actors, rather than down-and-outers, facing a conflagration in Los Angeles, this is a dark farce that & #039;s simultaneously self-deprecating, self-serving, an occasion to vent about both friends and rivals and to fret about self-worth in a cocooned environment. With everyone here officially playing themselves, the result is like a giant home movie and a reality horror show, different enough from anything that & #039;s come before to score with young audiences.
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