What a blast! The team of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost have brought us their best work yet in The World's End. It's great to see Pegg and Frost together again to fight the powers that be at controlling our lives.
This time around in the trilogy in spirit only, Pegg plays Gary King, an alcoholic that won't let go of the good old days back in high school. He ropes in the old gang to reattempt, "The Golden Mile." Five guys, twelve pubs, twelve pints. Frost plays Andy Knightly. Now, the former friend of King's that reluctantly goes on the trip because he believes Gary has changed. He was wrong.
Along the way, they discover their hometown has been taken over by robots, and the only way out is to act normal and finish the pub crawl.
All of the actors played wonderfully off of each other. Their banter going from the immaturish to english literature. Martin Freeman is especially great as the movie progresses and he changes attitudes about the situation.
It almost hits too close to home as you get older and realize this is what happens in life. You lose touch with old friends and trying to recapture the magic just doesn't go as well as you would think. It's only your history that keeps you together and in The World's End it's only their history of each other that keeps them alive.
My only small complaint is the climax. It's not bad, it's just silly. The Gary and Andy emotionally climax in the scene previous and it leaves the movie to still wrap up the great robot problem. It's a much more serious moment for the two, while the robot leader makes its appearance and sounds like a tired teenage assistant manager voiced by Bill Nighy.
It's not enough to bring the movie down. The movie is a wonderful ride that will lead you all the way to the end of the world.
5/5 stars
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