Been a while since I did a proper film review, so I thought I's start up with the third film in the Cornetto Trilogy: The World's End.
The film is 5 childhood friends reuniting to attempt their hometown's "golden mile", basically a pub crawl, how very British! However, their town has been taken over by blue blooded robots and while 4 of the friends want to leave the town, one of them (Simon Pegg's character) wants to stay and finish the crawl as they failed the first time.
This film is about as British as it comes, usually that was be an offensive remark in my eyes as Britain doesn't come across well in movies, we're either bad guys in Hollywood or chavs and gangsters in London. This film is about 5 average guys doing something considered a British thing, never heard of pub crawls in the US. The film is also in some way a coming-of-age film, especially for Gary (Pegg) who still acts the same as he did when he was a teenager, though his friends have grown up and had lives and that itself is quite an interesting topic, also the fact that Pegg and Frost's characters hate each other is a nice twist as they are always buddies in the previous films and Paul, the alien comedy.
The film, like the other two, have laughs aplenty, mainly from Pegg, which is a change as Frost had the great lines in Hot Fuzz. Most of the stuff is silly but that's what I love and there are a few clever jokes thrown in for good measure. The story itself is quite good too, the transition from buddy comedy to sci-fi action movie is very quick and the characters are surprisingly very good at hand-to-hand combat, though I don't want to dwell on technical things like that!
SPOILERS BELOW!!
The ending really surprised me, mainly because everything works out in the previous two films and they all live happily ever after, but it's not the case with this film. Two of the five characters die and the world effectively ends sending everyone into the "dark ages". Though the characters have some form of happy ending, it's not the ideal "Hollywood" style ending, but then again, this is a very British film!!
What did you think of "The World's End"?
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