Firstly, I’d like to address the nay sayers who critique this film. It is evident from reading their comments that they have no idea that this film is part of the Cornetto Trilogy and their comments fall short.
Secondly, don’t look too deep into this film, it wasn’t meant for that. The first film of the series was about an average joe surviving the zombie apocalypse, the second film was about a brilliant cop solving crime in a murderous town and now the third is about a group of school friends who, albeit reluctantly, come back to their hometown to finish a pub crawl, however they did not expect it to have been taken over by aliens that basically run our world.
Simon Pegg stars as Gary King, a man unfulfilled and stuck in his past blaze of glory, who orchestrates an unwilling pub crawl with school friends he hasn’t seen in decades. These friends consist of a pedigree of British actors, Nick Frost a straight laced office worker who has a particular hatred towards Gary, Martin Freeman a pretentious estate agent, Paddy Considine a normal run of the mill architect And Eddie Marsan, a mouse of a man working at his fathers dealership.
Gary collects all men under the pretence of his mother dying and gets them back to their old village where they attempt to do a pub crawl that’s finishes at The Worlds End. As they begin their journey through their old town it become apparent that things aren’t quite right, they are almost exactly the same as they were twenty years previous. As the pub crawl continues events start to unravel, Rosamund Pike enters the fray as a love interest between Pegg and Considines characters. Pierce Brosnan appears a cool Headmaster and to finish the trilogy an appearance from Bill Nighy occurs.
I shall not ruin the film anymore not give the plot away further. Out of the three Cornetto Films this is my least favourite, but that does not take anything away from this film as it is still brilliant! I would watch this again and again!
Redwoods Reviews 