Yahoo Movies 'The Night Before' Trailer: It's the Drug-Fueled Holiday Comedy We Didn't Know We Needed So Badly (NSFW)
Ever bemoan the lack of cocaine and mushrooms in holiday movies? The Night Before is here for you.
Primed to be the most incendiary Christmas comedy since the 2003 Billy Bob Thornton raunchfest Bad Santa, the November release teams up Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie as three best friends who celebrate Xmas eve by partaking in a night of utter and unholy debauchery across New York City. You can get a taste for it in the hilarious red-band trailer just released by Sony (watch above).
The film’s mischievous tone is established from the onset, as the trio prepares to step up to the giant FAO Schwarz piano Tom Hanks made famous in Big. We think we’re about to get a schmaltzy rendition of “Chopsticks.” Instead we’re soon watching Gordon-Levitt holler “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nothin’ to F–k Wit!” into the pregnant belly of Jillian Bell (22 Jump Street).
From there we learn these three have celebrated the night of the 24th together every year for 14 years, but with Isaac (Rogen) becoming a dad, Chris (Mackie) getting too famous (we’re not sure for what yet), and Ethan (Gordon-Levitt) likely on his way to become an au pair (OK, making that up), this will be likely be their last hurrah. And thus it will be epic. Enter the coke and ‘shrooms.
The comedy marks a reunion of the 2011 so-called “cancer comedy” 50-50, reteaming not only Rogen and Gordon-Levitt but also director Jonathan Levine (The Wackness), who co-wrote the script with Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shafir.
It should also be a refreshingly less controversial rebound for not only Sony but also Rogen and Goldberg, who co-directed The Interview (referenced in a great trailer gag) and watched as the North Korea comedy set off one of the biggest kerfuffles in Hollywood history. There are clearly some edgy religious gags — but here’s hoping no one gets that upset over Seth Rogen’s heavy petting of the manger animals.
The Night Before opens Nov. 25. Check out the film’s official poster:
