The World's End Review!

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 Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike.
Directed By: Edgar Wright.
Written By: Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg.
 The World’s End (2013) is a British Sci-Fi Comedy, which is part of the ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ by the comedic geniuses that are Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. The World’s End follows a group of old school friends that reunite to go back to their home town and complete the Golden Mile, which is a pub crawl in which you have a single pint in a total of 12 pubs, concluding at The World’s End.
You’ve seen Shaun of the Dead (2004), you’ve laughed at Hot Fuzz (2007) but you haven’t seen it all till you’ve been to The World’s End. This movie has everything you expect from marvels such as Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with more twists, turns and humour than you can imagine. This movie has a subtle clever-ness to it that I find truly brilliant. The comedic and British mix that this movie contains, takes us back to when British humour was golden, gives this generation the right sense of humour these days and reminds young adults that slapstick comedy is always funny, especially in a British community.
The way this movie was put together has created a new side of comedy movies, the structure and script allows us to accept that robots “that aren’t robots” and laughter can make a good couple.
The World’s End was such a success that I completely agree with, although, does it make us question the quality of Shaun and Fuzz? Pegg and Wright have a history of surprising and inspiring us, will they get to the point of not being able to push the bar any higher? This being said, comedy lives forever and genius continues to grow in a world where more can always be learnt, if they can’t surprise us anymore they can certainly get away with going backwards after making movies that make us accept a slightly twisted nation.
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Edward Norton are all actors we know well for award winning performances or just for being the hunks of Hollywood, however, portrayals like Pegg’s as the infinite Gary King should be receiving the awards instead. Pegg really shows that he can be the king as well as the clown, with scenes that almost break your heart with the emotion that all actors in this film let out. Crazy storyline aside, they have managed to show us that where there is smiles there can be also be sadness, but don’t worry because you go right back to smiling.
The concept of these ‘Blank’ robot-esc villains is very exciting, very unpredictable in comparison to fighting zombies. This movie really takes the well-known and the unknown to make something quite beautifully original.
I know I have spent this review praising this movie, it is not because I am a fan of the cast, I have purely praised this because I found something new and different with this movie which is very rare, not to mention as a nation we loved it all together. Who knew it; comedy, alcohol and alien robots are the key! Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg knew it, so don’t miss out on something I feel has made comedy history.
9/10
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