Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg does it a gain taking yet another over the top concept and making it into a movie that will gladly make your sides split from laughter.
The Interview is everything you think it is: an indulgent self-referential comedy filled with Hollywood in-jokes and stuffed with cameos galore. But The Interview is also something very surprising: it’s actually funny, and the in-jokes and self-referential qualities and semblance to the Coppola classic The Conversation also comes to mind and adds to the movie rather than distract. More than that, it’s a well put together story that builds into an impressively sweet finale that really extols the simple virtues of true friendship and being a decent dude, while trying to kill Kim Jong Un in the process.
Seth Rogen stars as Aaron Rapaport, a popular celebrity tabloid TV show “Skylark Tonight,” who along with his friend and Co-host Dave Skylark played wildly by James Franco land an interview with Kim Jong-un and are then instructed by the CIA to assassinate him.
Though the first act has a slow build and is not as lavished as the final act, It definitely has the potential to go down as the funniest movie of the year, and it’s going to take a true stroke of geniuous to knock it off that perch any time soon. I was laughing for days after seeing this film, now that the embargo is lifted I’m excited to say I will gladly be seeing it again with friends so I can hear them laugh their eyes out and listen close to the jokes I may have missed the first time around. There was a cameo worth mentioning that really shows Eminem in a whole new light mind you but overall hilarious.
What had been a movie I truly dreaded – upon seeing the trailers may have become arguably my favorite comedy in the last few years. What appeared as a gimmick sure to just bring shock value became so much more, well-made and so endlessly endearing that I can’t imagine any one not loving it.
Kim Jung on the other hand, well let’s just hope they edited the coveted scene that caused mass hysteria at the end. Seth Rogen playing a more straight-laced character this time around was refreshing and really fits the over personified over the top Franco. If your tolerance for puerile sex gags is low then the idea of facing this dual may probably be not be for you, if not? Go in with an oxygen tank, you’re gonna need it after 117 minutes of never ending laughter strikes you in the butt.
The Dude Gives it
9.6/10