Marval Movie

Its fun getting together with old friends that you knew back in your school days, why? Because you can reminiss on the times that you had and whats new with them or yourself, how you and they have changed. But sometimes there are those that don't seem to have changed at all and seem to be exactly where they were twenty years ago.

The Worlds End is about a man named King, Gary King (Simon Pegg). He was a big shot in school, had friends and had one night of epic proportions and seems to have been celebrating that night ever since.  He even seems to realize that his life has never moved on since that night so he realizes that his life needs closure to move on, but not until he reunites all the pieces back together.

The movie is about King reuniting his old friends that had a dream to complete the golden mile, where they attempt a pub crawl through their entire town of all twelve pubs where they will end their journey at the last one named "The World's End".

The other members of the group are, of coarse, Nick Frost as a former alcoholic who has grown to be quite a content businessman, who looks back on the time with King with contempt. Paddy Considine as a very modern man living in London and working out, all that good stuff. Martin Freeman is now a successful estate agent who has become a very modern, PC individual. Eddie Marsan a simple car salesman who is now partners with his father and has a quaint house with a wife and kids.

During the pub crawl the town just seems to get weirder and weirder until it is revealed that all of the towns people, or at least most have been replaced by robot doppelgangers (Huh?). So starts the groups shallow epic quest to complete their pub crawl and stay alive.

Edgar Wright directs and co-writes the movie and he is still a joy of a talent to watch. He comes to any project with loads of enthusiasm and creativity. He always creates tight screenplays with comedy that works off the characters as well as the situations themselves and this is no exception. The jokes are both character driven as well as physical.

The Worlds End is the third of the self named "Cornetto Trilogy", the other two being Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. This is probably the weakest of the trilogy, Shawn of the Dead is one of the greatest comedies that I have ever seen and Hot Fuzz is really fun but slightly weaker than Shawn. The Worlds End is by no means a bad movie but it has its faults and there was never a huge laugh from me.

What I enjoy most about this movie and what its main selling point is above all the other movies is the action scenes. What I mean by this is the hand to hand action scenes that the characters go through. I would have never guessed but Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have now become action stars. Yes I'm sure that there are some stunt doubles for some of the shots but for the straight up hand to hand scenes I'm pretty sure its them and there rather convincing.

One of my friends made a good point that this should really be called the fence trilogy and after thinking about it he was right. There does seem to be a reoccurring theme of fences in these movies, there is always a scene where they either have to jump over a (or a series of) fence or crash through them (Buster Keaton style). In fact there is only a Cornetto in this movie by a brief fly by cameo, if anything.

By the end of the movie the plot essentially falls apart but the characters stay true. It is a rocky journey at  the end but the first two acts are so strong that they just about make up for it.

And so ends the Cornetto Trilogy. I'm sure that all three of these movies, whether they be on their own or together as a marathon will be the source of great enjoyment for this generation of comedy.

Rating: 3 stars out of 4