'The world's end' review

Edgar Wright (director), Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (actors), the creators behind ‘Shaun of the dead’ and ‘Hut Fuzz’, have come back. Now they are supposed to close their funny Cornetto trilogy with ‘The world’s end’, and we have reason to celebrate it. After the slow zombie horde and the trigger-happy police officers, now we have an alien invasion, but it is only an excuse to make another hilarious comedy, may be the best of all three. The film begins with the legendary memories of Gary King (Pegg), an adult-boy that can’t forget his high school years. He decides to get the old crew together and return to his native town, where they have an alcoholic challenge to break, a sort of 12 Stop Local Pub Route (the crew years ago and now in the picture below). That funny and stupid goal suddenly transforms into a crazy extraterrestrial conspiracy, with an extra characteristic: ‘The world’s end’ is clearly a better film than most of the serious sci-fi pictures it is based.

So here we go. Gary, his friend Andy (Frost) and the other gang members, with an old girlfriend (Rosamund Pike, from ‘Jack Reacher’ and ‘Wrath of the titans’) and some supporting actors like Pierce Brosnan or Martin Freeman ('The Hobbit'), fighting against the alien with easy bar chairs and some glass of beer. Are you still asking for more? Wright has certainly found a personal cinema rhythm that applies with excellent results to the ‘The world’s end’. Personally, I think that it worked with ‘Shaun of the dead and’, less with ‘Hot Fuzz’ and became again with a success in ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the world’ (his only American film apart from short ‘Don’t (s)’ in Taratino’s ‘Grindhouse’ until now. He will direct ‘Ant-man’ soon).