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The World's End (2013), R, 3.5 stars

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and the gang.
This is the third movie of the Cornetto Ice Cream Trilogy where there's an "easter egg" flavor in all three movies. (See Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.) Whereas, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost back in their comic ways to delight and surprise the audience.

This year has been weird because you cannot suppress the fact that for example, This is the End, these demonic creatures are inhabiting the Earth while the planet is going to apocalyptic hellish ruins. With The World's End, hell is loose again while being on a journey to a pub. Wow!

Gary (Simon Pegg) wants to complete the Golden Mile, a pub crawl that is scattered across 12 pubs in Newtown Haven. He and his friends want to redeem themselves from their childhood past due to failing their attempt to reach the final pub, The World's End.

Gary persuades Peter, Oliver, Steven and Andy (Eddie Marsan, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Nick Frost) to join him to perform this task of reaching that final pub. But, his friends are considered more adult in their thoughts of doing the task or not because they have responsibilities as any particular grown-up would consider having while moving on from their childhood lives.

While in one pub in the movie, Gary gets in a tussle with a boy who is strong and agile. He accidentally  knocks his head apart exposing the boy as a robot. Gary and his friends are unknown of how many robots there are. Therefore, they keep continuing on their pub crawl and warn Oliver's sister, Sam, (Rosamund Pike). Robots can either seduce, attack, or steal anyone's DNA anywhere. Every character has to watch their back.


If I keep continuing with analyzing and spoiling this movie, it would be unfair. This movie is so hilarious. Frankly, I have seen the previous two movies. Shaun of the Dead was kind of a surprise and delight. Hot Fuzz was a pretty good action comedy. But, The World's End is the best of the trilogy. The movie is not conventionally cliched because the writers do not tell the jokes and then we wait for the punchlines. They just throw everything on the screen. Basically to make a crude R-rated comedy, the director has to be gutsy. Edgar Wright was gutsy.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost deliver really bright performances because they had to express concern and vulnerability to what's going on with the robots infesting the town. The rest of the cast have a whole of fun with this apocalyptic comedy. Of course, it gets a little over the top with the violence and profanity. What the creators do is taking a ridiculous script and committing 100% to the material with creativity and emotional resonance. This is a surprise because it was out of the blue in the final stretch of summer.  A very funny movie.

***1/2

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