Alternate title: The End Of The World, Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, The Apocalypse
The premise of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s new movie — a foul-mouthed, good-natured “Funny or Die” sketch stretched to feature length and garnished with special effects — is that the apocalypse is here. As a bunch of funny guys gather at a party in Los Angeles, events foretold in the Book of Revelation come to pass. The righteous are raptured up to heaven, while the rest (or at least most of the famous people in Hollywood) are swallowed up in fiery pits that open up in the ground, or pursued by scaly, oily, horned demons with enormous genitals. — A. O. Scott