The World’s End

16Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright grab Nick Frost for one last pub-crawl with the movie The World’s End, the last in the so-called Cornetto trilogy. I will admit I am a total fangirl for Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, but I was really skeptical if they could end the series with a bang.

The World’s End is a pub in the typical small British village of Newton Haven, where our boys grew up. On the last day of school, they tried and failed to complete the Golden Mile: a twelve pub pub-crawl, ending at the aforementioned The World’s End. So, some twenty years later the leader of the pack, Gary King (Simon Pegg) gathers the boys together for one last attempt. If you’ve managed to avoid trailers and other plot summaries, I urge you to keep doing that because the film is a lot funnier if what comes next is a surprise. I won’t spoil it here, but there is definitely as much action as the other two.

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