{"id":207,"date":"2013-09-28T20:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T10:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=207"},"modified":"2013-09-28T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T10:37:30","slug":"review-this-is-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/28\/review-this-is-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: This is the End (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a very offbeat film from Seth Rogan, featuring an all-star cast of Hollywood greats playing themselves. With lots of cameo&#8217;s from people like Rihanna (obviously trying to build on her film career after running from explosions like a runway model in <em>Battleship<\/em>) and James Franco, Jonah Hill, Emma Watson.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/this_is_the_end_premiere_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-208 alignright\" alt=\"Paul Rudd, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen, Emma Watson, Evan Goldberg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/this_is_the_end_premiere_-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every actor made hopeless fun of their Hollywood persona&#8217;s I think using it as an opportunity to have a snap back at the paparazzi and their constant rumor-mongering.<\/p>\n<p>Without giving too much away the film is about the end of the world and a house full of dysfunctional guys trying to cope with it. There are some really funny moments in this flick, although I don&#8217;t think it was quite as hilarious as it could have been.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently based on a short film Seth and his mates all made in a drunken blaze, I think a lot of the jokes are in-jokes and were probably a lot funnier at the time.\u00a0Unfortunately unlike THX-1138 this was not a film that turned out better from a short film to a major motion picture! Still well worth watching for a few belly laughs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a very offbeat film from Seth Rogan, featuring an all-star cast of Hollywood greats playing themselves. With lots of cameo&#8217;s from people like Rihanna (obviously trying to build on her film career after running from explosions like a runway model in Battleship) and James Franco, Jonah Hill, Emma Watson. Every actor made hopeless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/28\/review-this-is-the-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: This is the End (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}