I saw "The Night Before", starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt-Premium Rush, The Dark Knight Rises; Seth Rogen-The Interview, The Green Hornet; Anthony Mackie-Love The Coopers, Captain America:The Winter Soldier; Lizzy Caplan-The Interview, Hot Tub Time Machine and Michael Shannon-Man of Steel, Premium Rush.
This is a Christmas movie-in case you could not tell from the title, The Night Before, is referring to Christmas Eve-but with Seth Rogen in it, it's not going to be your traditional holiday movie. About 10 years ago, Joseph lost both his parents in a car accident and his two buddies, Seth and Anthony, came over to keep him company and take his mind off the tragedy. They then turned it into a regular holiday tradition; All three would get together on Christmas Eve and wear ugly holiday sweaters, go to a Karaoke bar and sing, play Goldeneye on a Nintendo and then get drunk-or smoke a little. This year is decided to be their last Hurrah. Seth is now married with a child on the way and Anthony is a famous football celebrity. They just don't have time to get together anymore and it is mutually agreed upon that this will be their last time acting like teenagers, since they all need to just grow up. Joseph finds out about a secret holiday party that they have always wanted to attend, but could never find it. It's called The Nutcracka Ball and they finally get their hands on tickets! Lizzy plays Joseph's ex-girlfriend, that was dumped because Joseph was not ready for a commitment-and guess who shows up at the party?-and Michael is funny as a roving drug dealer, dispensing his holiday philosophy as he hands out his drugs. There are several cameos, including James Franco, Miley Cyrus and Tracy Morgan and some of the humor is pretty graphic-one running joke is about Seth getting a girl's cell phone mixed up with his phone and Seth keeps getting pictures of another guy's penis, which was meant for the girl. Seth is hilarious as he keeps taking more and more drugs-he starts having weird hallucinations and talking to inanimate objects. It's rated "R" for drug use, language and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 41 minutes. If you are in the mood for a holiday movie that is a little untraditional-don't take the kids-you should enjoy this one. I did and I would buy it on DVD.
This is a Christmas movie-in case you could not tell from the title, The Night Before, is referring to Christmas Eve-but with Seth Rogen in it, it's not going to be your traditional holiday movie. About 10 years ago, Joseph lost both his parents in a car accident and his two buddies, Seth and Anthony, came over to keep him company and take his mind off the tragedy. They then turned it into a regular holiday tradition; All three would get together on Christmas Eve and wear ugly holiday sweaters, go to a Karaoke bar and sing, play Goldeneye on a Nintendo and then get drunk-or smoke a little. This year is decided to be their last Hurrah. Seth is now married with a child on the way and Anthony is a famous football celebrity. They just don't have time to get together anymore and it is mutually agreed upon that this will be their last time acting like teenagers, since they all need to just grow up. Joseph finds out about a secret holiday party that they have always wanted to attend, but could never find it. It's called The Nutcracka Ball and they finally get their hands on tickets! Lizzy plays Joseph's ex-girlfriend, that was dumped because Joseph was not ready for a commitment-and guess who shows up at the party?-and Michael is funny as a roving drug dealer, dispensing his holiday philosophy as he hands out his drugs. There are several cameos, including James Franco, Miley Cyrus and Tracy Morgan and some of the humor is pretty graphic-one running joke is about Seth getting a girl's cell phone mixed up with his phone and Seth keeps getting pictures of another guy's penis, which was meant for the girl. Seth is hilarious as he keeps taking more and more drugs-he starts having weird hallucinations and talking to inanimate objects. It's rated "R" for drug use, language and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 41 minutes. If you are in the mood for a holiday movie that is a little untraditional-don't take the kids-you should enjoy this one. I did and I would buy it on DVD.