This Is the End - 4 stars

I'll come right out and say it.  This is the funniest movie I have seen in at least a year.  This will definitely be on my top 10 list in December.

Jay Baruchel goes to LA to visit his friend Seth Rogan, who invites him to a party at James Franco's house.  There are a lot of celebrities at the party, including Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Emma Watson ... the list goes on. 

What's different about this movie is that everyone plays themselves.  When Franco and Rogen are getting stoned, they start talking about ideas for Pineapple Express 2.  The party is a lot of fun.  Mindy Kaling wants to hook up with Michael Cera, who is a coked up womanizer.  Craig Robinson sings a song called "Take Your Panties Off" with Rihanna joining in. 

At some point, all hell breaks loose.  Literally.  The ground starts to shake and the earth opens up, with most of the partygoers falling to a fiery death.  The survivors include Baruchel, Rogen, Robinson, Hill, Franco, and Danny McBride (who wasn't invited to the party in the first place).  The rest of the movie consists of the 6 of them trying to survive in Franco's house.  They have limited rations, and there are monsters of some kind roaming around outside.

The movie reminds me of Shaun of the Dead.  It's a comedy, but it also takes the events of the apocalypse seriously.  There is violence and death at times.  It's actually pretty realistic about the way some people would probably behave in a situation like that. 

It's a lot of fun seeing these actors making fun of each other.  There are several references to the fact that Jonah Hill was nominated for an Oscar for Moneyball, and James Franco keeps props from the movies he is in.  And it was fun seeing the three leads from Superbad standing around together.

The only complaints I had about the movie was it's a little too long.  But the laughs kept on coming, and the ending is a lot of fun.  It was really raunchy, but funny is funny.  I loved this movie.