The World's End
August. 23,2013 RFive friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
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Redundant and unnecessary.
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
In 1990, in the town of Newton Haven, Gary King (Simon Pegg) leads a group of young men on an adventure down the Golden Mile as they attempt to visit all 12 pubs in one night, winding up at "The World's End." They never completed the trek. The group grew up and scattered. Gary has decided he needs to go back and do the 12 pub drinking trek at age 40 as a rite of passage, his life's accomplishment. He gets the reluctant gang back and off they go.The film starts out like a fairy decent comedy and then suddenly Newton turns into Stepford. In spite of their lives and the planet being in danger, Gary still wants to complete the quest as the best way NOT to draw attention to themselves. The film was funny and when the Doors started to play, I had to laugh and sing with the film.The theme of the film is about conformity as a swap of freedoms for comfort. It portrays conformists as robots of the system, all working for the common good.Good quirky comedy that will be added to my collection. Highly recommended for those who like a smart British comedy.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No nudity. Implied sex.
I really couldn't decide which film I liked more, Hot Fuzz or this one, so I had to give them the same rating. They're in the Cornetto trilogy but they couldn't be any more different. This really is the most imaginative film of the three while it battles with growing up and not living in the past. Not to mention this is an amazing cast; arguably the best cast of the three films. It's a film that goes off the rails, but not in a bad way, but a carefully designed one. It's also where I first fell in love with Rosamund Pike.
Probably an unpopular opinion but this is my favourite out of the cornetto trilogy. The dialogue is just fantastic and very funny. I find it has the best pace as well, as it definitely takes time to build up to the ending. Most of the acting is great, with Pegg and Frost switching roles from Shaun of the Dead. Pegg presents his character as extremely childish but has a genuine reason to act this way. Wright also managed to make his style blend a lot better in this film in my opinion. The shots and cinematography seem more perfected. However, sometimes the antagonists are a little dull. Overall though a fantastic action film.
Seen many of the Pegg and Frost movies and most of them have been funny, but this just didn't deliver. The movie has a good idea for a story, but somehow I just didn't see how this would have fit in to that.The "blanks" was a good surprise for the movie and how the movie reveled it was surely nice! I liked it, because I did't read anything about this film (obviously to avoid spoilers) before I watched this. So from that side, the movie had a nice surprise to it.