This Is the End/Superbad/Pineapple Express/That's My Boy [DVD]

Collection of four comedies. In 'This Is the End' (2013) Seth Rogen co-directs this comedy action movie in which a number of Hollywood stars, including Rogen himself, play fictionalised versions of themselves facing up to the apocalypse. When Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson attend a party at James Franco's house they anticipate a good time. However, as Los Angeles is struck by a series of disasters it appears that the apocalypse is near. How will the bickering movie stars fare as they try to survive amidst a crumbling city? 'Superbad' (2007) is an autobiographical teen comedy co-written by Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Two socially inept teenage boys are about to graduate from high school. Having been accepted into different colleges, the two are forced to contemplate life apart - a concept that induces severe separation anxiety in them both. Evan (Michael Cera) is sweet, smart, and generally terrified. Seth (Hill) is foul-mouthed, volatile, and all-consumed with the topic of human sexuality. The film portrays their misguided attempts to reverse a lifelong losing streak with the opposite sex in one panic-driven night. In 'Pineapple Express' (2008) Dale Denton (Rogen) is a stoner with a mundane courthouse job that enables him to indulge his habit to his heart's content. He regularly visits his dealer, Saul Silver (Franco), who has recently been supplying him with a rare new strain of weed called Pineapple Express. When Dale inadvertently becomes the sole witness of a murder by a bent cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and leaves his Pineapple Express-filled joint at the crime scene. When he realises that the weed variety is so rare that it can be traced directly back to him and only him, he and Saul are forced to go on the run. Finally, in 'That's My Boy' (2012) Adam Sandler stars as an absent father who re-enters the life of his estranged son in an attempt to sting him for cash. Donny (Sandler), a foul-mouthed, hedonistic middle-aged playboy who is facing a jail sentence for tax evasion, finds out that Todd (Andy Samberg), the son he fathered as a teenager with his high school teacher, is now a hedge fund manager and about to tie the knot with his fiancée (Leighton Meester). Donny instantly sees an opportunity to get hold of the cash he needs to bail him out of jail, and turns up at Todd's door the day before his wedding, sending his son's well-ordered life spinning into chaos.