The World's End [MA]

Years ago when they were 17 a group of friends embarked upon an epic pub-crawl, which they never finished. 20 years later they reunite and return to their hometown to have another attempt. But the night takes a turn when they discover that the entire town has been repopulated with robots from another planet and they have unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival. 

The blurb pretty much says it all right? The final instalment in the Cornetto Trilogy, the two previous being Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz for those who like me had no idea what the Cornetto Trilogy was, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright team up again and blow audiences’ heads off as it all comes to an end. Critics have said that The World’s End doesn’t stand up to its predecessors, but to be brutally honest, I didn’t find Shaun of the Dead as brilliant as I do now. Hot Fuzz is by the far the standout of the three, but I think that The World’s End is definitely a movie that will get better the more times it’s watched and for that reason, and the fact that I have the other two already, it will most posilutely be making into my collection! I thought it was brilliant! 

Years ago when they were 17 a group of friends embarked upon an epic pub-crawl, which they never finished. 20 years later they reunite and return to their hometown to have another attempt. But the night takes a turn when they discover that the entire town has been repopulated with robots from another planet and they have unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival. 

The spontaneity and the randomness that makes up a lot of the humour in these films is here in spades, highlighting the more emotional story that fleshes out the film. At the end of the day, this is a movie about growing up and deciding whether or not to accept it. I don’t wish to give too much away, but what I really liked about this movie was the ending and how there wasn’t the expected closure and epilogue type thing that has come to be expected procedure in mainstream cinema. Just like its predecessors, The World’s End keeps you on your toes and guessing, finally leaving you with a sort of “wha?” or “wtf?” feeling. It’s fantastic! 

As far as action goes, it would be hard running after Hot Fuzz, but this movie manages to scale the heights. I haven’t revisited Hot Fuzz for a while, but I actually think this film overruns it in being the most energetic and action-packed of the three. The fight sequences were a thing of wonderment and the special effects were an image-imprinting knock out as well. 

And then we have all these wonderful familiar faces that it’s great to look on again. Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, David Bradley, Michael Smiley, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan, and featuring the voice of Bill Nighy, The World’s End is a fan-fucking-tastic end the trilogy. Packed with booze, action, robots, violence, explosions, romance, and emotional journeys, holy rusted metal batman this movie rocks like a hurricane.