The World's End

When do you reach the point to where living out your Peter Pan fantasy becomes embarrassing for both you and the people around you? Is it when you are wearing knightly surcoats while out on the town with your family or is it when you’re the forty something year old man with gray hair that’s yelling the rap lyric “I got that good kush and that alcohol” to 22 year old girls at a football tailgate? I can’t really clown this guy too hard because at the same party I saw a guy with an Uncle Rico (Napoleon Dynamite) stache and a fake gold chain kicking game to a 22 year old possible stripper, while her much older mother was standing right next to her. Sadly though, this guy was doing work all over the place and seemed to be having success! Maybe it’s not pathetic to do these things. Maybe it’s only sad to those who have already given up on fun and decided to get married and have kids. Well this is a major topic they decide to tackle in what essentially acts as the last installment of a comedy trilogy with the team of Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, and Nick Frost. They also brought you Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, which were both packed with action that was both fun and funny, and not in the unintentional way either.

At some point though you fear that this formula will start to get a bit old, and initially it does feel that way as they stumble through the long set up which is full of British comedy. Gary King (Pegg) starts the movie off by telling a group of people the story of how on the last day of high school, he and his mates (see, I’m already turning Brit) decide to take on an epic pub crawl. But due to certain circumstances, they were never able to reach the final pub which was called The World’s End. So he decides to gather the old crew back together again so they can give it another run with the hopes of completing what they started 20 years ago and putting to rest his only regret in life. The problem is, it was 20 years ago and apparently everyone has moved on in life with the exception of Gary who still has the same car from high school and apparently is still wearing the same clothes.

As they are on the crawl, some unresolved issues the gang has with Gary come back up and just when everyone decides to give up and call it quits, Gary finds himself in a fight with what appears to be a robot in human skin. The first fight is pretty ho hum as the whole crew must get involved and it seems like a lame attempt to recreate what they had in Shaun of the Dead. But the second Gary’s best friend Andy (Frost) decides to give up being sober and he starts drinking again, that's when the movie starts to pick up steam.

 Like its predecessors, all of the fight scenes will have you cheering and Edgar Wright (the director) does an excellent job with the cgi. The best part of the film is that as they are trying to figure out what in the world is going on, they continue with the pub crawl, so naturally drunker decisions are being made and it’s taking them longer than it should to figure out what to do.By the time Gary is in the middle of an epic verbal battle with one of the robot leaders, you can tell that the writers clearly didn't care anymore and just went all out! And trust me, that's a good thing. 

It’s really cool to see a lot of the same people that were in the previous two films, pop up in this one. My favorite was the annoying kid from Shaun that worked in the TV and appliance store with Pegg, “You’ve got red on you”. If you blink you’ll miss him but it’s good to see them throw him a bone as I’m sure he hasn’t done anything but local fish and chips commercials since then.

This movie makes you want to move to England so you can have a pint every day for the rest of your life and possibly get in a fight with the local zombies and/ or robots that are trying to take over the Earth. I would definitely suggest seeing this in a movie theater that allows you to drink so you can feel like you’re a part of the crew. I rate this movie as FRESH and am currently in the need of a Boddingtons!