Thanks to a popular celebrity talk show, Dave Skylark has become a superstar on American TV. But his producer and best friend Aaron Rappaport wants credibility: when they find out Kim Jong-Un is a fan of their show, they decide to ask for an interview, which they get. This attracts the attention of the CIA, who intercept them and assign them with a top secret mission: to eliminate the North Korean dictator, who has been threatening the US with nuclear weapons.

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The illusion works for almost half an hour: a sketch with Eminem, James Franco’s energy, a few powerful dialogues, and this new movie by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen seems almost funny – far from the awful and mediocre This is the End. Unfortunately, everything goes downhill quickly from there, devolving from innovative screwball into a narrow-minded, lackluster comedy that is too mechanical to the really funny. Except for a few farcical scenes reflected by a handful of shots to justify the makers’ bad boy label, The Interview is inoffensive, boring and to be consumed with skepticism as the duo apes clichés – Seth Rogen’s scatological jokes, James Franco’s “gay-but-not-too-gay” humor. The best thing that ever happened to this movie was the political uproar surrounding the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment and North Korea’s claim to have been behind it. Otherwise this movie would have come and gone like ever other bad comedy.