“There’s such a thing as trying too hard, and with The Night Before I thought what would be cooler than just showing up and being with my friends, making each other laugh and having a blast, which is exactly what that movie is.” Thus spake Joseph Gordon-Levitt in September’s Playboy, and that’s as good a quote for the movie’s poster as any: Nobody in The Night Before tries too hard, and the movie mostly does consist of Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, and Anthony Mackie having a blast. Those two facts alone make it a welcome break from November’s usual batch of self-satisfied, self-serious Oscar bait, and that’s not even taking into account the important facts that The Night Before is narrated by Tracy Morgan, or that it makes excellent use of Kanye West’s “Runaway,” Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball,” and, most importantly, Run-DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis.”
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