Eight reasons to watch "The Interview"

So I don't care much for the emphasis on a certain orifice in The Interview but I have decided to put it behind me. It's innocuous fun once you get past the jokes focused on a very specific part of the rear (James Franco's Dave Skylark sings "They hate us cause they ain't us" and of course Seth Rogen's TV producer character, Aaron Rapoport, mishears it as "They hate us cause they anus" - don't ask). But I wouldn't go so far as to call it an act of war.So, should you watch it? If you can get past the toilet humour, here are eight reasons why you should, and please do forgive for the spoilers.

James Franco and Seth Rogen (Right) in The Interview.

1.) You will have fun with the star cameos: Eminem coming out of the "closet", revealing the trail of crumbs he had left behind in his songs about his homosexuality. It's a pop culture explanation on par with Quentin Tarantino's riff on how Top Gun was essentially a gay romance between Tom Cruise's Maverick and Val Kilmer's Iceman). Rob Lowe removing his "wig" and showing his back comb-over. Joseph Gordon Levitt playing with puppies in a playpen. We are teased with the declaration that Matthew McConaughey would be shown doing the unmentionable with a goat. Sadly, it doesn't happen.

2.) You will enjoy that it takes potshots at America's fabled ignorance of the rest of the world: When Randall Park, who plays Kim Jong-un, tells Franco's Skylark that a particular tank was gifted to his grandfather by Stalin, Skylark responds cheerfully: "In America we call him Stallone".

3.) Even better, It takes potshots at the world for loving everything American: Kim Jong-un is shown as a devotee of American pop culture, from Katy Perry songs to margaritas, everything his father said made him seem gay.

4.) Hidden gem: It tells us the words to Katy Perry's "Firework", which have hidden depths when sung tearfully by Kim Jong-un's character.

5.) It is stuffed with in-jokes: At one point Skylark boasts about the women he has slept with -- more than Ellen, he says, referring to Ellen DeGeneres, the dancing TV host who is famously gay. There's NBC's Brian Williams, with a completely straight face, talking about North Korea building a nuclear missile designed to hit America.

6.) It is a hilarious indictment of CIA: Lizzy Caplan of Masters of Sex is thankfully fully-clothed in the film, but plays a CIA agent as a sort of anti-Claire Danes. She is honeypotting Franco (who insists on calling the process honeycombing). She wants Skylark and Rapoport to assassinate Kim. But Kim's head of propaganda, a delightful Diana Bang playing Sook, explains why it is a mistake to replace one dictator with another from his brood. Instead, she points out, humiliate him on national and global TV in front of his people by showing that he is human - that he poops, pees and cries. Moral of the story? CIA should dismantle its anti-terrorist network and replace it with tabloid anchors gifted in the art of making people cry on camera.

7.) It makes us hopeful that there will be a sequel: And that will be the home movie Chicago Bulls' former star Dennis Rodman shot the last time he went to meet Kim. Now we hope that doesn't get him banned.

8.) Watch it because they told you not to: Since the Guardians of Peace promised terrorist attacks on anyone who watches The Interview, we should go ahead and do so, if not for the sake of art, then at least in the interests of freedom of expression.