An amusing premise yields few yuks.

[An] almost endearingly silly amuse bouche of a comedy depicting how the End of Days might play out in Seattle ...

It never does live up to its potential, instead becoming bogged down in a repellent character who is supposed to be savagely satirical but is really just tediously crass.

Rapture-Palooza is a prime example of a movie that has great concept, but that struggles to stretch said concept into a feature-length motion picture.