Rapture-Palooza
Rapture-Palooza
R | 07 June 2013 (USA)
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Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.

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Lucybespro

It is a performances centric movie

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Micransix

Crappy film

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Fairaher

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Humbersi

The first must-see film of the year.

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MinistersofGoodTaste

You've got this backwards: you go up there to get judged, you don't do the judging. An Apocalypse comedy that's actually funny? Anna Kendrick, looking as stunning as she can be, fights the Antichrist, played by Craig Robinson, who apparently was the mayor of Idaho and poisoned everyone in the White House when the ishh hit the fan.Marry me, Lindsey. Marry me and become the mother of my evil offspring. The movie opens with a sneaky monologue featuring talking locusts and cursing crows - seriously, they're rather mean. Anna's mom returns from the pearly gates after being rejected for judging heaven, asteroids that fall from the sky seem to hunt the remaining living, oh! And her undead neighbor - not the flesh-eating undead kind - but the lawn-mowing kind? Wait. What?The Antichrist - or Beast, as he insists on being called, delivers his classic, under-sold, cheesy lines (remember Hot Tub Time Machine?); his creepy pickup lines on Kendrick are some of the more classic ones we've heard in years.Guest appearances by Rob Corddry - who rides the fence between helping fight against and making the case for the Antichrist; Ken Jeong - God, yes, God; and Paul Scheer - a zombie, make for some fun and added laughs. But, Robinson really steals this show: his persistent sleaze ball antics are a riot from start to finish.Grab some beers, or whatever your um... happy laughter thing is, and kick back with this one. Anna's a babe, the laughs are immature, and it's the classic good vs evil….. well, sort of.~ E.S. Norton ~ MinistersofGoodTaste.com

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BA_Harrison

Just like the predicted Rapture of 2012 (as prophesied by Ronald Weinland of the apocalypticist COG-PKG), end of the world comedy Rapture Palooza proves to be something of a non-event.Despite a potentially very funny premise, and a promising start (the slo-mo credits sequence is surprisingly stylish), the film is extremely hit and miss, with the majority of gags being misses. Much of the humour relies on smut and profanity, which I have no problem with, but when I fail to find a vagina joke funny, we definitely have a problem!To make matters worse, the whole production has an air of cheapness about it, particularly the special effects scenes which look like someone knocked them out quickly in After Effects on their iMac (I suspect this may not be far from the truth).Overall, this is very much like that other terrible rapture themed comedy of 2013, This Is The End, only none of its stars are anywhere near as obnoxious as Seth Rogen.3/10, plus an extra point for getting Anna Kendrick into that white dress (which distracted me slightly from the dire comedy).

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Shenny-shen

I loved it from the get-go when all the good people were taken to heaven and then those left behind were just standing there. As the movie progressed, I found some of the language pretty damn disgusting and I was ready to hate the movie, but the way Anna Hendrick's character handled these verbal disgusting sexual comments had me laughing so hard that I had to pause the show until my laugh attack was over. My husband didn't understand my laughing fit, but every woman has had some jerk say such inappropriate things to her and it's uncomfortable and uncalled for. So I found it completely hilarious how it was handled in the movie. I rated this movie an 8 out of 10 and my husband gave it a 1 out of 10. So it's not for everyone, but I do believe this will be a cult hit. You'll be singing the theme song after the movie is over. So catchy!

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napierslogs

"Rapture-Palooza" is based on a true story. Or, so it says at the very beginning of the movie, and then you know exactly what type of humour you're getting yourself into. It's funny, extremely funny. The type of funny that you're laughing out loud so often that you need to rewind to catch all the jokes you missed; it's also the offensive kind of funny. It's offensive, extremely offensive.The rapture is coming, and there will be some people who don't make it into heaven. Gays, musicians, and gay musicians. The movie is set in Seattle. Where God has left a lot of people behind: namely, Lindsey (Anna Kendrick), her boyfriend Ben (John Francis Daley), and her family. Her mother (Ana Gasteyer) did originally get into heaven, but she got kicked out; presumably, due to her complaining about how unorganized and unprofessional it was, or she was in the wrong line. Comedienne Ana Gasteyer is funnier in small doses; her complaining and screaming the entire way through makes it a little less funny.Every rapture-based idea and image is skewered. As the plot begins, they even have Lindsey and Ben reading the Bible to understand what exactly is going to happen and what they can do about it. Ben comments that it's all just pieced together as if nobody thought it through. That's a common complaint about this movie, but when you have so many random things to make fun of, how is it not going to appear random?The plot introduces Craig Robinson as the Beast, aka the Antichrist, aka the devil. He's a former politician who is now in charge of the whole world. And he's funny too. The film pits our everyman heroes, Lindsey and Ben, versus the Beast and they're either going to save the world (what's left of it) or destroy it in the process.In the long line of end of the world movies, this one is closer to "This Is the End" (2013) at least in terms of the humour, but religious ideas have probably never been as relentlessly attacked as they are in this film. Only for those ready to laugh at the impending rapture.

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