Shame on me. It really wasn't that bad. The one review I read suggested the whole movie was about blissfully happy food that get taken home and eaten in horror and that was the whole premise. However, it was a nice easy-to-follow parody of religion. Highly recommended for people who like to find hidden meaning but it's not too deep. A good practice movie for the up-and-coming thinking man.
shareIt’s a solid little film, glad you finally came around to it.
shareWhen I was in college, a couple of little films were universally savaged by critics: Airplane! and Animal House. Years later, the revisionists have upgraded them.
I do recall one time when a savage review *encouraged* me to see a movie. When History of the World came out, Rona Barrett ripped the film and Mel Brooks. You could see the veins in her neck she was so furious (she didn't like Mel making fun of the Inquisition). I went the next night to see it - I was not disappointed. It was just as depraved as Barrett screamed it was. I think I went again when it came to the drive-in.
I pay no attention to reviews.
No, it was worse than the reviews made it out to be. The movie has nothing but juvenile humor that masquerades as some euphoric atheist nonsense. Seth Rogan is genuinely one of the least funny comedians in recent history and that is saying something, considering one of the most pushed comedians is Amy Schumer. Nothing much to think about considering the main villain is literally a douche in the most literal meaning. I've seen better ideas come out of YouTube.
shareFUNNY FLICK...FULL OF TALENTED PEOPLE PROVIDING THEIR VOICES.
share>euphoric atheist nonsense
You could say it's a scathing criticism of atheism. They killed their Gods (literally, even) and what did they replace them with? Hedonism, orgies, polyamory, liberal use of narcotics, pursuit of meaningless short-term pleasures, and ultimately complete destruction of their society. You could argue it was a one-off party to end all parties, and afterwards they'll regroup and come up with an actual plan to address their imminent deaths (when more Gods come back to cleanse the store), but that's not depicted or hinted at. Instead the larger existential question is ignored by all the characters. They threw off the shackles of their false and stifling religion but were unable to find anything to replace it with that would lead to a better, longer term stability.
Nietzschian foodstuffs would've argued that they had to become Gods themselves, and thus to meet that challenge they must live as Gods, but instead they were all transformed into the Last Man.
Same here. I thought I knew all about this movie based on reviews. Turns out it was actually far more clever than the trailers and buzz, and a genuinely funny comedy. At least in my view.
shareI avoided it because it looked sophomoric based on the trailer but maybe I'll give it a shot.
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