Rapture-Palooza

2013

Action / Comedy / Fantasy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 25% · 20 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 13070 13.1K

the rapture anti-christ apocalypse

Plot summary

Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.

Director

Paul Middleditch Photo
Paul Middleditch

Top cast

Anna Kendrick Photo
Anna Kendrick as Lindsey Lewis
Ken Jeong Photo
Ken Jeong as God
Craig Robinson Photo
Craig Robinson as The Beast
John Francis Daley Photo
John Francis Daley as Ben House
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701.11 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 5
1.24 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by estreet-eva 4 / 10

Congrats to Anna Kendrick for keeping people from walking out

With a mediocre title like "Rapture-Palooza" the film cannot be accused of false advertising. With the exception of Anna Kendrick, the cast is peopled with comedic actors of "There's-That-Guy-From- That-Thing"-level renown which is about the right level for the material. You get the gist from the title that the plot amounts to it's the end of days and hilarity ensues. Although some of the proceedings are decidedly not funny including John Michael Higgins being crushed by a falling meteorite as the family looks on, drug- addicts pestering survivors for a hit as they leave their house and the deity of about a billion true-believers being burned to death with a laser as he rides a unicorn. Craig Robinson plays the Antichrist borrowing lines and an outrageous skeeviness from dozens of stand-up comedy routines over the last 30 years. Counter- intuitively his recycled slease-oid is by default the most fully realized character among those not played by Kendrick. Rob Coddry, Ken Jeong, John Francis Daly and others in the cast could have rotated around their interchangeable characters during the filming with little loss of coherence. In particular, Daly could have been replaced with a sock puppet on Kendrick's left hand and it would have played very similarly. As the movie meanders towards its anti- religious? ending, Kendrick inc increasingly comes to dominate the screen-time and brings an earnestness that keeps the movie at least watchable if not entertaining. In short, many better apocalypse films exist - watch one of those.
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Reviewed by HagenSteele 4 / 10

Wasted talent, wasted premise, and simply irritating to behold...

Craig Robinson is about the only thing in this film worth seeing IMO, as I have yet to see one of his performances that he is not fully committed to, and just plain funny.

Funny.

That's what I expected in this film, however, it fails to deliver.

With a premise like the "rapture", there is all kinds of room for some serious comedy, but this film wastes that opportunity, and instead seems to make the actors take the irritating / idiotic approach to their roles, and in the delivery of their supposedly "funny" lines.

The actors deliver their lines, and react to events in the film, in a way that can only be described as "corny", ridiculous, and just plain irritating. Instead of sympathizing with the characters, I found myself hoping they would be "removed" so as to save me from having to watch them any further on the screen.

The ONLY actor that seems to know how to deliver a comedic line is Craig Robinson, but he is simply overwhelmed by the inferior comedic performances of the rest of the cast.

This film just didn't work for me, and I highly doubt it will work for you either.

/shrug

Don't say you haven't been warned.

4 of 10 stars.

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