Barred From Heaven, and Now the Devil Wants a Date "Rapture-Palooza" has a promising setup and a cast with a good track record of bringing the funny, yet 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. The film is narrated by Lindsey (Anna Kendrick of "Perfect Pitch"), an attractive young woman who is bowling with her boyfriend, Ben (John Francis Daley), when the Rapture comes. Believers rise into heaven, while Lindsey, Ben and everyone else who spent Sundays someplace other than in church are left behind on earth, where torments begin to materialize: nasty bugs that shout, "Suffer!"; giant rocks that fall randomly from the sky. So far so good for the bad: lots of comic potential to be mined from the premise. But then the script (by Chris Matheson) decides to focus on the Antichrist (Craig Robinson), a vile being who sets his sights on having sex with Lindsey and lets everyone know it in numbingly vulgar language. The actors who surround Ms. Kendrick and Mr. Robinson - Rob Corddry, Ken Jeong, Ana Gasteyer, Paul Scheer and others - have done plenty of hilarious work, but here, under Paul Middleditch's direction, they are no match for the devil that is sophomoric writing. "Rapture-Palooza" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) because a world of unchurched people is a pot-smoking, obscenity-laden place.