The World's End

Directed by Edgar Wright. Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike. 109 mins

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost specialise in portrayals of men living in stunted adolescence. With Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, the trio created a formula for funny bromances that also took a loving side-swipe at genre flicks. Now they’re in a mood for some self-reflection.
In this final installment of what has been dubbed their ‘Three Cornettos Trilogy’, they address the tragedy of trying to relive your youth while also making a comment about the blandness of suburbia.
Pegg is Gary King, a sad 30-something still clinging to his teen music, Doc Martens and memories of an incomplete epic pub crawl from 20 years ago. Uniting his old gang (Frost, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Martin Freeman), who all now come with families, responsibilities and a wariness of their obnoxious old schoolmate, he returns to charmingly eccentric hometown, Newton Haven. The goal: to finish the drinking binge they started all those years ago. But the pubs now all look the same, and aliens are getting in the way. Don’t you hate when that happens?
Bursting with pop culture references from The Matrix to Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, a soundtrack brimming with nineties nostalgia and lots of great one-liners The World’s End begins as a typically amusing fare. However, the movie is really a study of male friendship and British idiosyncrasy. Trashy, silly, easy watching, it’s a fitting end to a fun trilogy.