While most everyone enjoys a good Christmas movie this time of year, one that gift wraps themes of family, friendship, and faith, others enjoy something that can take those ideas and wrap them in a healthy dose of drug and toilet humor. A film like Bad Santa immediately comes to mind as the nearly-impossible bar to reach, but The Night Before deserves to at least be in the same conversation with that holiday classic. Like the bastard offspring of Pineapple Express and Scrooged, this is a film that manages to stay incredibly sweet and endearing while wrapped in a cloud of weed smoke. It's bound to become an annual holiday tradition in a ton of households.

Writer/director Jonathan Levine gets a chance to reunite Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who he worked with on the cancer comedy, 50/50, and once again he's taking some heavy themes and putting a fine touch of tinsel all over them. This time they're joined by the infinite cool of Anthony Mackie, who rounds out their nerdy trio of best friends having one final Christmas Eve bash through the streets of Manhattan. Isaac (Rogen), Chris (Mackie), and Ethan (Gordon-Levitt) have been best friends for years, ever since Ethan was orphaned while in college. Each year they celebrate the holidays together, but life is starting to get in the way. Chris is a famous football star now, while Isaac is about to become a parent for the first time. It's Ethan who is the odd man out; his life isn't really going anywhere, his girlfriend (Lizzie Caplan) dumped him, and he's working as an elf for the Christmas season.

As fortune and a little bit of thievery would have it, Ethan gets his hands on tickets to the sickest Christmas bash in the city, promising their final blowout will be one to remember.Read more ›

Absolutely hilarious movie for adults! Two thumbs up!!

Unfortunately this turned out to be one of those movies where most of the funny parts are in the trailer. Watch the trailer and save 90 minutes. You have been warned!

This movie is a marvel of modern day science. It isn't only funny, but has genuine emotional engagement that so many comedies lack. that could be interpreted in multiple ways. This doesn't feel like rogan humor, but something more. The drug humor is some of the best I've ever seen, and it's not used that much. It has that over the toppness of the Chapel scene in Blues brothers. The humor is smart, but it's masked by stupidity, so some pompous lammas may label this a pile of crap. As I said before, this doesn't feel like a Rogan humor, as the jokes have variety and aren't all hit and miss like in Neighbors and This Is The End. This may be why this movie isn't well received by some; it's not the mediocrity that Rogan fans love for some reason. I'de compare this movie to Top Five, only I find The Night Before to be much funnier. Like Top Five; The night before makes you feel for a character that you can't really at all relate to. The main difference between this movie and Top Five is that this movies humor is more prominent, and in my opinion, more funny. This movie, in my opinion, surpasses A Christmas Story, Elf, and Christmas Vacation. See this movie.

I am normally not into Seth Rogen's films and would rate most a 3. However, because of his supporting cast and a decent script I would give this a four. I would have given it a five had it not been the "Same old Rogen role," such as (Rogen just had a baby, Rogen is about to have a baby...Rogen trips on drugs... Rogen smokes drugs... etc) I am a bit over that. His two best friends though? Great comedic timing, not-annoying and referenced things that I had never heard before but should have... like Home Alone! One of my favorite lines of the film!

Give this one a chance for sure- especially if you are like me and you want to see something with Seth Rogen in it that you may actually like. It is always his supporting cast that makes you really love a film that he is in.

What a boring an uninteresting movie. It only had a few funny parts. Mindy was the funniest parts of the movie.

I thought the trailers were funny but I also thought that would be the only thing funny about this movie. After all it is a buddy movie about the guys having a last great night out before they actually have to be more adult like. That's been done a ton of times. So I would say my expectations were very low. I have to admit it was funny and I laughed a lot during the whole movie.

Now I know that I said it was a buddy movie but this had some heart to it and the characters actually grow. So it's not the typical let's party movie but I don't think it would be funny the second time around.

This is the Seth Rogen/James Franco crew Christmas movie. It's a Christmas movie, so the storylines are limited; it had the comedic twists with 90's/00's references, awkward transitioning into real adults themes. If you're in your in your 40s or younger, you'd like it. It was not as funny as some of the other movies done by this crew, but still one of the better Christmas movies I've ever seen, with good life lessons woven into an entertaining story.