{"id":156476,"date":"2015-11-17T13:27:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=156476"},"modified":"2015-11-17T13:27:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T20:27:03","slug":"the-night-before-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2015\/11\/17\/the-night-before-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Before Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE NIGHT BEFORE<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Columbia Pictures<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grade: D-<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director:\u00a0 Jonathan Levine<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Written by:\u00a0 Jonathan Levine, Kyle Hunter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Shannon, Mindy Kaling, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 11\/16\/15<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Opens:\u00a0 November 20, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some folks may sing \u201cThose wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine,\u201d but in the case of the three friends highlighted in \u201cThe Night Before,\u201d a tradition of debauchery that they have celebrated every Christmas Eve for fourteen years is coming to an end because\u2026Come to think of it, why should these pals break up?\u00a0 After all, one of them, Isaac (Seth Rogen), has been married to Betsy (Jillian Bell) and is about to become a father, which in itself is no excuse for ending his friendships.\u00a0 Chris (Anthony Mackie) is a famous athlete, but so what?\u00a0 We\u2019re talking only one night a year.\u00a0 And as though Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) needs an excuse for quitting his fantastic Christmas Eves, he has his eyes on Diana (Lizzy Caplan), the woman who broke up with him and with whom he had no spoken for three months because he was afraid to meet her parents.\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s the holiest night of the year for most Americans, but for the three young men who seem long-in-tooth for us to consider this a coming-of-age story, heading off to the Holy Grail of Christmas parties, the Nutcracka for some late hours of drugs and dance is considered more important than attending Midnight Mass or putting final fixings on Christmas trees.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the most overtly Jewish member of the group, Isaac, is the only pal who does go to Midnight Mass, though he wishes he had night, and so do the members of the congregation who fill every pew in the church.\u00a0 Loaded with weed, cocaine and a variety of other mind-altering substances, he enters the church while wearing a sweater chock full of stars of David, a fish out of water who had never been to a Christian service before in his life.\u00a0 Zonked out of his mind, he heads for the aisle, throws up on the floor, and exits rapidly from the church saying \u201cWe did not kill Jesus.\u201d\u00a0 Funny?\u00a0 If you think so, this may be the movie for you.\u00a0 Vulgar?\u00a0 Strangely enough, the movie is not so much so, which makes one wonder, Where is Judd Apatow when we need him?<\/p>\n<p>The problem with \u201cThe Night Before,\u201d co-written and directed by Jonathan Levine, whose \u201cWarm Bodies\u201d features a zombie who saves a still-living girl from an attack, is that\u2019s its entertainment value is close to zero.\u00a0 It is a laugh-free, only mildly vulgar, and virtually plot-free film, taking place in Manhattan during a long, long night and involving a surprisingly unfunny Michael Shannon, so great in \u201c99 Homes,\u201d one of the best films of 2015, serving as a drug dealer who is so zonked out himself that we wonder how he can keep his account books accurate.<\/p>\n<p>With a small role by James Franco, \u201cThe Night Before\u201d may be about the search for the Holy Grail of parties, but the movie itself, the worst of the year to date, has a good chance to win the Golden Raspberry, the Holy Grain of trash celluloid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated R.\u00a0 101 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story \u2013 F<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Acting \u2013 C<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Technical \u2013 B<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Overall \u2013 D-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/tnb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/tnb.jpg\" alt=\"tnb\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-156503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/tnb.jpg 2028w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/tnb-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/tnb-1024x533.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2028px) 100vw, 2028px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE NIGHT BEFORE Columbia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. 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