The Night Before
Published December 12, 2021
Film info
- Title The Night Before
- Director Jonathan Levine
- Year 2015
- Run time 1hr 41m
- Genres Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
- Tagline Their past, present and future. All in one night.
Three best friends set out to find the Nutcracka Ball - the Holy Grail of Christmas parties - and enter a night of debauchery and hilarity.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:55 | I love, love, love setting new traditions. |
| 4:07 | Whimsical but determined, that’s a hard look to pull off. |
| 7:53 | How not to talk to pregnant people. |
| 11:35 | Once you go corporate… it’s every other word. |
| 12:55 | “It’s a concept album.” “What’s the concept?” “I’m still conceptualising that part.” |
| 17:34 | I can totally sympathise with ordering off the internet and not knowing what size of thing you’re getting. Not so much on the drug side of things though. |
| 24:10 | Can you party to Wrecking Ball? |
| 34:32 | The drug dealer said they’d be back. Psychic drug dealer. |
| 41:59 | The octopus hands made me jump a lot! |
| 48:46 | “She Home-Alone’d me.” |
| 56:22 | Drunk Santas psycho-analysing him is perfect. |
| 58:22 | “Can you be my rock? Because you’re acting like a weird pebble.” |
| 1:07:22 | The train thing is cool but not manageable if lots of people arrived at the same time. |
| 1:19:33 | “Ethan, you and I both know Miley was flawless.” |
| 1:31:52 | “Pretend I’m saying it right, if you could.” |
Thoughts
I’m not a huge stoner movie fan, it’s just not something I have reference to, and you know that’s exactly what you’re getting when Seth Rogan teams up with some buddies for one final night out. It was better than I thought it was going to be, although still a bit of a hot mess. The supernatural angle was only slightly there which made it more irritating than insightful, and I really feel like he could have said that Miley 90% forced him to propose which might have calmed her down a bit. Miley was by far the best thing in it. The less said about JF the better.
BUT I thought Jillian Bell’s character was awesome - supportive, enabling, understanding. They make a great couple.
Rating: 2 / 5
