If you like comedies then The World’s End is for you. It stars Simon Pegg as Gary King, Nick Frost as Andy Knightley, Martin Freeman as Oliver Chamberlain, Paddy Constantine as Steven Prince, Eddie Marsan as Peter Page, and Rosmund Pike as Sam Chamberlain.
The World’s End is about 5 friends who reunite years later to complete a pub crawl called The Golden Mile. This crawl consists of having 1 pint at 12 pubs in their hometown of Newton Haven. They tried but did not compete the crawl during their youth. Once they arrive, they notice strange things and unknowingly become humanity’s hope for survival against robots.
The World’s End is a superb comedy and an excellent finale to The Cornetto Trilogy for Pegg, Frost and writer/director Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz). It has a great story, cool well directed fights, and great acting.
The comedy is hilarious throughout with the normal wit and constant laughs of the Cornetto Trilogy. As this is the final movie in the Trilogy, there are several nods to running jokes, plot progression, and reacurring actors/cameos in this and it is all very funny.
The story is great as well taking some unexpected turns around the half way mark. The storyline has some heart and themes interspersed within the comedy.
The action also is great and is very comical and very well shot unlike the shaky cam style that has popped up recently in action movies.
The acting is also great. A unique thing involving the leads is that their roles are reversed as Pegg plays the comic and Frost is the straight man (unlike Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz). This reversal works as both the leads are excellent and hilarious bouncing off of each other and Pegg steals a lot of scenes . The rest of the cast is excellent as well. Overall, The World’s End is a superb, hilarious comedy with a great story, fights, and acting.
The World’s End is rated R for pervasive language including sexual references. I give The World’s End a wordly A+.
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