This Is the End [2013]

Seth Rogen presents a wholly original premise: He and his movie buddies — all meta-playing themselves — party at James Franco’s house when the Apocalypse hits. The execution is nearly great, with Michael Cera and a musical finale as the highlights.

d: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg | imdb.com | trailer | Emma Watson
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She’s Out of My League (2010)

Jay Baruchel, one of Seth Rogen’s band of brothers in “Knocked Up,” graduates to lead loser in a generic knock-off of a Judd Apatow film. Not even romantic interest Alice Eve can explain why she’s with the dead-end, self-esteem-less Baruchel.

d: Jim Field Smith | imdb.com | trailer | Beauty and the beast

Fanboys (2009)

In a movie about “Star Wars” fanboys that could appeal only to “Star Wars” fanboys, four self-indulgent geeks, joined later by Kristen Bell, travel from Ohio to George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California to steal an early copy of “Star Wars: Episode I.”

d: Kyle Newman | imdb.com | trailer | Take your shirt off.