The World’s End Review

9th Jul 2013

Pegg, Frost and director finalise their cornetto trilogy here (after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) at the World’s End – a loving tribute to youth, unfinished business, floppy haired 90’s soundtrack heaven, science fiction, getting the band back together and some of the best of British humour.

This time round Pegg gets to play they most irresponsible character yet that they have created: Gary King – an alcoholic who craves for the days of his youth and decides it would be a good idea to track down his old chummies and sucker them into one more round of the Golden Mile (a twelve pub stop that they have thus-far in life failed to finish).

Introductions and montages later and the five of them, Gary, Andy (Nick Frost), Steven (Paddy Considine), Oliver (Martin Freeman) and Peter (Eddie Marsan) head back to their home town for one more night and a few home truths along the way.

Anyone worried that this will break down into amateur dramatics will soon be surprised by rather how quickly the film changes into a sci-fi Invasion of the Body Snatchers type scenario – but with laughs!

Fans of the previous films may well hold the original forbearer in such high regard that Hot Fuzz nor this film stands a chance of getting anywhere near its’ mantle – but there are those people out there that do not hold Shaun so high. The question then is that if Shaun fans will like this, does that mean the non-converts won’t like? Interesting the answer is that they probably will like it. This one may contain a large amount of the (pardon the pun) pub humour… but it is a much broader here and therefore offers wider appeal making its idiot heroes likeable despite some of the loathsome attitudes towards life.

A larger budget has also afforded the team to offer up some well-choreographed punch ups, decent effects as well as a cracking soundtrack that will have older generations that lived through the 90’s grinning away.

By the end it’s all gone a bit crazy and any morals to be learnt have perhaps got a bit muddled, but they found a finale regardless.

In the end, Wright and Pegg have decided that whilst they would like to use a bigger budget, and make some of the humour and action that bit more manic and cartoony – they are still not afraid to say “cunt” more than once in a film, and to let anyone know who doesn’t like that, that they can “Shit off!”