This is the End - C

Rated R, 105 minutes

Over-the-top but thin "This is the End" blends raunch and the apocalypse

Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco and Craig Robinson

The apocalypse has never been mined for this much fun in the low-brow new comedy "This is the End," which finds raunchy delight in the end of the world, though really it's a mediocre one-joke of a movie that wears out after the first 20 minutes. The movie follows fictional versions of real actors playing themselves: Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill and Danny McBride as the apoclypse comes to fruition in Los Angeles, complete with the Biblical rapture and demons, though the scariest part is the fact these guys must try to survive it together. A mildly entertaining but uneven mash-up of raunchy humor and the end times, "The is the End" is co-directed and written by pals and business partners Rogen and Evan Goldberg. These guys admittedly have some fun (wildly profane, it's not for everyone), though this one-joke stunt of a movie could've been accomplished much more easily in an SNL sketch or an HBO special. The best parts: the last 5 minutes (featuring a well-known boy-band cameo) and the first 20 minutes, with a who's who of young hipster actor cameos, most memorable from Michael Cera who has one cringeworthy scene in particular that may cause you to look away, and Emma Watson as well as Jason Segel, Martin Starr, Paul Rudd, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Aziz Ansari, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, among many others. The rest of it seems thinly stretched-out filler, so much so it's hard to see how Rogen and Goldberg even had anything to direct or write, as much BS that goes on during this time you'll be ready for it to end. The leads, playing wild, alternate versions of themselves, are all likable, but Hill is annoyingly effeminate while McBride may just get on your last nerve (his argument with Franco mid-movie is memorable though). Pleasantly scattered and uneven, the unimpressive "This is the End" is low-brow fun for those who enjoy this type of thing, but the best part about "This is the End" is when it  - the movie, not the world - really ends.

Wes's Grade:  C