This Is The End Opening Two Minutes Review

'This Is The End' is an American apocalyptic comedy film, written and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. This film stars many, many celebrities such as: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Rihanna, Emma Watson, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson and Michael Cera. All of these celebrities have been in previous films such as: Pineapple Express, Knocked Up, Oz the Great and Powerful, 21 Jump Street, Land of the Lost, Hot Tub Time Machine, Superbad and Harry Potter.
This film has a lot of clichés involved such as, name calling, this film has a lot of name calling involved from the start just like what a group of friends might call each other. Slapstick violence occurs in nearly all comedies and people falling either off ridiculous places or just generally falling over.
In the first two minutes you see Seth Rogen waiting at the airport for his friend Jay Baruchel, on the way to see his friend. During his wait you can hear someone say to Seth 'hey Seth Rogen, whaddup dude?' to which Seth replies with a half-hearted smile implying that he gets that a lot. As this film is also an apocalyptic film the writers would have had to find a good middle ground to where the comedy didn't ruin the apocalyptic ethos to it. The music in this film is a mixture of old well known music and current well known music, to try and create a 'hook' where the audience will want to watch as the music is familiar. The jumpy sound effects such as explosions and cars crashing does help the film with it's apocalyptic theme. The opening two minutes for this film is quiet and slow compared to the rest of the film as it's a fast paced, loud film. The title of this film 'This Is The End' makes you think of death, apocalypse, zombies, explosions or even a deadly flu virus, the reason for this is that there are a lot of apocalyptic films out and so these are the first things we would think of.