This Is the End
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 12, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
13
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 11, 2013
In its own sloppy, raunchy, sophomoric, occasionally self-pleased and consistently energetic way, This Is the End is just about perfect at executing its mission, which is to poke fun at its stars, exhaust every R-rated possibility to get a laugh, and even sneak in a few insights into Hollywood, the celebrity culture and the nature of faith. Read full review
100
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJun 5, 2013
It's the wildest screen comedy in a long time, and also the smartest, the most fearlessly inspired, and the snort-out-loud funniest. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJun 11, 2013
From the clockwork comic timing to the movie's salty mix of the ridiculous and the reflective, This Is the End is stupidly hysterical and smartly heretical. Cross my heart and hope to die, it's funny as hell. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonJun 14, 2013
This is the End finds a balanced tone most horror comedies fail to deliver. Grossout humor melds easily with grossout horror, sometimes at the same moment. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 13, 2013
There's no way you won't have a blast. In their directing debuts, Rogen and Goldberg come up aces, mixing hilarity and horror like pros and never letting up on the killer momentum. Read full review
88
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 11, 2013
A one-joke movie, but it’s a joke whose recurring rimshots grow as loud as our laughter. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 10, 2013
Outrageous-plus, but often hilarious. Read full review
83
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 12, 2013
There are no boundaries in this movie, so deal with it or leave. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianMarc MohanJun 12, 2013
With less intelligence behind it, this could have easily been one of those films that seem like they were more fun to make than to watch. Instead, it's a thoroughly good time at the movies, from humble beginning to cosmic, surprise-cameo-featuring end. Read full review
83
IndieWireBeth HannaJun 11, 2013
Rises above the over-tired gross-out comedy genre partly because of its meta celebrities-parodying-themselves trick, but it mostly stands out because it's genuinely funny. Read full review
80
NPRBob MondelloJun 14, 2013
That film is far more interesting in concept, and infinitely more elegant in execution, than what Rogen and his buddies have cooked up in This Is the End — but I've gotta admit, it's not nearly as funny. Read full review
80
TimeMary PolsJun 12, 2013
It is intensely raunchy and silly and joyous and tapped right into my inner teenager in a glorious way. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 11, 2013
The Is the End is a different take on the R-rated comedy, a raunchy laugh riot that actually gives you a little to think about. Read full review
80
Total FilmMatt MaytumJun 11, 2013
As a celebrity’s-eye-view apocalypse movie, This Is The End delivers huge guffaws and large-scale carnage with enough gusto to mask the indulgences. You’ll never look at Michael Cera in the same way again. Read full review
79
Film.comWilliam GossJun 3, 2013
Occupies an odd middle ground between their Apatow-produced bromances, the giddy gruesomeness of the recent “Aftershock” and the confined social abrasiveness of “It’s a Disaster.” Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 12, 2013
The film is uneven and about 15 minutes too long. But when it's funny, it's hilarious. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaJun 12, 2013
Out-of-control hilarious. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJun 12, 2013
This Is the End is a marvelously sustained, high-wire goof – a movie so nutty and daring, so crazy and out-there, that it feels like a low-budget independent except with big stars and a sizable budget. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 12, 2013
An often hilarious/generally irreverent comedy. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 11, 2013
[A] crass, patchy, often shamelessly funny farce. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 11, 2013
By the time September arrives, This is the End will probably be in the running for "funniest comedy of the 2013 summer." Read full review
75
New York PostKyle SmithJun 10, 2013
There is stuff in This Is the End that had me laughing so hard, I sensed new body parts joining in to help out — my pancreas was heaving, my bile ducts ripped. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 11, 2013
After going this far, both in raunchy bad-boyism and mock-apologetic love-us shamelessness, they've effectively blown up their own formula. That's not a bad thing. This is the end; now it's time to try for more. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJun 3, 2013
It also expresses the anxiety and insecurity of comics conscious of the big issues in life they are expected either to avoid or make fun of in their work. Rogen and Goldberg take the latter approach here, in an immature but sometimes surprisingly upfront way one can interpret seriously. Or not. Read full review
70
VarietyJustin ChangJun 3, 2013
This directing debut for co-writers Rogen and Evan Goldberg offsets its slightly smug premise with a clever sense of self-parody and near-cataclysmic levels of vulgarity. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJun 12, 2013
Maybe it has something to do with Jewish writers riffing on the apocalypse, but This Is the End doesn’t really know how to end. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jun 12, 2013
Funny is funny, and it would be truly dishonest to deny the big laughs—the spikes of gut-busting inspiration—that the film sporadically delivers. Read full review
60
The TelegraphMike McCahillJul 3, 2013
This apocalypse isn’t a nightmare so much as the ultimate bromantic fantasy, one in which – with the removal of any responsibility – the boys are free to bicker, banter, and bed down together. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJun 29, 2013
No comedy classic, then, but a good natured and engaging slice of goonish self-mockery. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 29, 2013
Some funny stuff, but a rental/download only. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJun 23, 2013
Is the movie fun? Yes, for half the time. An hour would have sufficed. [24 June 2013, p.84]
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 11, 2013
The film, at its phoned-in worst and also at its riotous best, has a terminal feeling. It suggests that a comic subgenre based on the immaturity, sexual panic and self-mocking tendencies of men who should be old enough to know better has reached its expiration date. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 10, 2013
The real point of This is The End, however, is to make people laugh -- and it accomplishes that. Often, in fact -- and satisfyingly. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 13, 2013
Some of that fun is infectious. For a while. Maybe 45 minutes. But when actors look as if they’re having a better time than you are, the buzz wears off fast. You turn into a wallflower at an especially obnoxious party. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'HehirJun 12, 2013
I enjoyed the hell out of it for a while, but it got irritating and self-congratulatory long before it was over and I desperately do not want to see it again. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 11, 2013
Rogen and his friends may have set out to celebrate virtue at its uneasiest, but they’re clearly still most at home with earthly delights. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJesse CataldoJun 10, 2013
It's disheartening that, despite some half-hearted overtures toward shifting the comedy paradigm, the filmmakers make little attempt to expand their comedic palette. Read full review
50
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthMay 31, 2013
Your mileage with the movie will depend on how much you like these guys to begin with, because even if you're a fan, the one joke premise has a hard time sustaining a full length movie. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJun 11, 2013
It's no minor accomplishment to make one of the most indulgent projects in Hollywood history. But with This Is the End, Seth Rogen and his pals have indeed achieved this dubious goal. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJun 11, 2013
It’s a hit-and-mostly-miss affair: For every gut-buster like McBride and Franco’s lengthy exchange about drenching each other in seminal fluid, there’s a fall-flat gag. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenJun 12, 2013
There are a few laughs at the start of This Is the End, and a couple more at the end of This is the End. As for the endless middle, it’s middling. Read full review
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