This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A couple of laughs, but the whole Christmas theme mashed up with a raunchy drug movie just didn't mesh all that well and came across as forced. The attempts at pathos were hackneyed and broad and the callbacks to much better holiday movies just hammered the point home that this is not destined to be a classic, or even remembered. The dick pic gag was great though.

Two years late with this review, but never been a big Seth Rogen fan. Yet, I will now reiterate myself and watch "The Night Before" countless times in addition to exploring comedies with the various cast from "TNB". Seth Rogen in his PRIME, the movie would not have been a movie without Rogen. Damn phenomenal performance.

When I was a teen I warned everyone I knew to look after their relationships: parents, siblings, children, lovers, and especially friends. Nothing in this life lasts forever. The only constant - is CHANGE. Blah blah blah.People move on with their own agendas and perceived roles in their lives and this puts a great strain on previous interactions that we often take for granted after our formative educational years. Friendships are usually the most likely things to suffer, fade, and disappear once people grow up. This movie is a fun , veiled tale of what we ALL must go through with regards to those changes ,and I sympathize with it, fore tis a central part of the human condition.There's laughs, spills, not too many thrills, or chills, though for a xmas movie, thats just mein penchant for terrible har har making. But some people do these types of things, no gender analysis needed to ruin a good time. HOWEVER...The film will of course appeal a tad more to the male perspective, but honestly when you look beyond Seth Rogan's ever intentionally placed molotov of druggery and mazel tovly awesome beard, and the strangely balding J G Levitt and their mysterious drug dealer associate, we remember that we all go through the same things, regardless of our individual attitudes, perspectives and the colors they take on. A good "holy" season watch when your bored and want some entertainment. Seasons Greetings and keep your heat beating. Pe@ce ^~^

Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity. Now that they're entering adulthood, the tradition is coming to an end, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracka Ball - the Holy Grail of Christmas parties. The Night Before is a film that i had a hard time to connect with and trust me i know that Seth Rogen is not an amazing actor but i've seen some of his movies and they were at least funny and watchable this one tho it wasn't and i feel bad about Joseph Gordon Levitt because at that year he starred in the film The Walk and it was a fantastic film and then he starred in this, really? Even Anthony Mackie in this movie you know the Falcon from Winter Soldier and Civil War? Yeah he is in this film too and there's a bunch of other actors who have cameos like James Franco (who figured), Tracy Morgan and even Miley Cyrus but to be honest i didn't know that any of this actors were in this film because i lost my interest in like 15 minutes and i skipped the whole thing because the movie was simply boring and dumb.