The World's End

The World's End

Overall rating: 5 stars

Consistent, action-packed and jovially hilarious, The World's End benefits greatly from it's talented cast and tight direction. It's a profane parody, far from droll, but highly amusing. 

The Good

It's so great. It shares traits with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the best traits and an adequately small amount at that. Pegg is a hilarious lead, backed by a terrific supporting cast (Freeman, Pike etc.) and inspired by his and Wright's solid writing. 

The plot is suitably ludicrous, but The World's End is a parody! It can be as stupidly silly as it wants, which it is, particularly the ending. 

It manages to make people laugh with so many different elements, whether it be a funny line, a visual gag, a quirk of one of the characters or a twist in the story. It is very British in nature (I'm not sure others won't get some of the humour), but it suits my taste in every way. Others won't feel the same, undoubtedly, but comedy films are very hard to critique broadly. 

The Bad

It isn't bad, but the ending is slightly weird. It's not how I would've done it for sure, but it was satisfying and humourous enough.

To Conclude
Raucous, dark and well cast, the last installment of Wright, Pegg and Frost's Three Cornetto trilogy is the best of the lot, featuring the same humour but with plenty of great characters and twists to keep it fresh. British at heart, The World's End is a comedy gem.