Rapture-Palooza

Name: Rapture-Palooza
Director: Paul Middleditch
Released: 2013

Synopsis

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

70
Village Voice
Always amusing, if never screamingly funny.
70
Los Angeles Times
Chris Matheson's script focuses its energy on small, wickedly funny gags, half of which Robinson seems to have sputtered out as improv.
50
The New York Times
Rapture-Palooza has a promising setup and a cast with a good track record of bringing the funny, yet it never does live up to its potential.
50
New York Post
Silly enough for you? Did I mention that the immortal Ken Jeong of “The Hangover’’ plays God, who gets mighty pissed when hubby accidentally shoots Jesus out of the sky?
50
Variety
More irrelevant than irreverent, the unworthy script from “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’s” Chris Matheson might play to apocalyptically stoned college kids, but offers nothing in the way of broader social satire, suggesting the waste of a perfectly good Reckoning — not to mention the talents of a cast far funnier than the doom-and-gloom results suggest.
40
The Hollywood Reporter
An amusing premise yields few yuks.
38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
If you’re going to commit to a blasphemous stoner comedy mocking the New Testament prophesy of the coming Rapture, you’d better go all in. Because halfway isn’t funny.
38
Slant Magazine
Its views on organized religion are so halfhearted and perfunctory as to make Kevin Smith's Dogma seem like a veritable master's class in theistic studies.