The World’s End

Following my feelings of ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz,’ I was excited to see where ‘The World’s End’ would take Edgar Wright’s Cornetto trilogy. So, you can imagine my disappointment when this movie kind of ruined the entire trilogy for me. I suppose I should explain, this movie was fun, and that’s all it needed to be. It followed the Edgar Wright way of editing, which did work. However, the Edgar Wright style was a little bit too much in this one, and through that, it revealed how weak the stories are in this trilogy, and how repetitive each movie. Every single movie is about Simon Pegg and Nick Frost being buddies, when, all of the sudden, it turns out everyone is secretly a part of a conspiracy. So, they need to get to a bar and try to survive. It was kind of frustrating that this movie ruined all of that for me, because, other than that, this movie was perfectly mindless fun. As I have mentioned many times before, Edgar Wright’s fast-paced editing style allows the film to move along quickly, while allowing for great visual gags. While Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead had some excellent characters that were deep, the characters in The World’s End seemed extremely 2 dimensional and it was kind of sad to see the trilogy end on this low of a note. Overall though, if all you want is a good time, and you haven’t watched any of the other Cornetto Trilogy, I would definitely give it a watch. But, compared to ‘Hot Fuzz’ and ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ this one falls extremely flat. 5.8/10