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Absolute riot. So much fun. Park & Wright can do little wrong. Works pretty well as sci-fi & as comedy, but mostly as story about friends…
Andrew Knightley: “Yeah, because we’re more belligerent, more stubborn and more idiotic than you could ever imagine.”
What’s more:
As the third film in the Cornetto Trilogy (with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), The World’s End comes with heavy expectations, which it absolutely fulfills. Producer Nira Park & director Edgar Wright get the band back together and this thing just plays…
The perpetually funny Simon Pegg & Nick Frost are joined this time by a great supporting cast featuring Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, Rosamund Pike and NVB fave Martin Freeman. These actors gel perfectly and completely sell their role as old friends.
At the insistence of Pegg’s ne’er do well addict Gary King, the old gang gets together in their old hometown to complete a pub crawl down the “Golden Mile” of 12 pubs that they failed to master as teenagers. The first half of the film is packed with great comedy and moments as they realize that of course you can’t go home again.
And if it had stopped there, it would have been quite a good movie. They could have left it at that and no one would have cause for complaint. But the whole thing gets more sublime as this theme that nothing stays the same becomes more explicit with the discovery that their hometown has in fact been invaded by body snatching aliens. Brilliant! It gets completely ridiculous, and in all the right ways.
The World’s End is a blast and never stops being funny, even with a slightly long for comedy 109 minute run-time. The movie feels like a night out with your friends, and makes me want to get the band back together to find our own Golden Mile and “see this through to the bitter end. Or… lager end.” Let’s Boo-Boo…
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Bechdel Test:
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| Main Cast | Simon Pegg Gary King, Nick Frost Andy Knightley, Martin Freeman Oliver Chamberlain, Rosamund Pike Sam Chamberlain |
| Rating | R |
| Release Date | Fri 23 Aug 2013 UTC |
| Director | Edgar Wright |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi |
| Plot | Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival. |
| Poster |  |
| Runtime | 109 |
| Tagline | Good food. Fine ales. Total Annihilation. |
| Writers | Simon Pegg (written by) &, Edgar Wright (written by) |
| Year | 2013 |
