The World's End - A Review

5 Stars - Excellent

The Cornetto Trilogy is back for its final installment, the mint flavoured ice cream that is The World's End. I went into this film with very high expectations following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, two of my favourite films. This is every bit as good, if not better than both.

The comedy is dead on, keeping you laughing all the way through, except at certain points where emotion seeps in and you're almost crying. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are both on exceptional form, this time somewhat reversing their usual roles as this time Frost is more of a straight man and Pegg is the childish and silly one. They both create wonderful characters that you really sympathise with and genuinely want to see survive, the same can be said of the great supporting cast, which features Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike, David Bradley and several others.

The writing and direction are wonderful. Edgar Wright just gets comedy and parody in a way not many people do these days, because his parodies of genres are made with such love and appreciation towards those genres that they could be viewed as one of them, not just jokes at their expense.

someone start singing little green bag...

In short an absolute must watch. In fact, why are you sitting here reading this? Go see it right now!