The World's End
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, David Bradley, Mark Heap, Thomas Law
Rating: (R13)
4 stars (out of 5)
Shaun of the Dead has become something of a cult classic since its release in 2004.
In 2007 when Simon Pegg reunited with Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright for Hot Fuzz, they told everyone who would listen that they were planning on making a trilogy.
The World's End (Rialto and Hoyts) is the third part of that trilogy, that is if you are prepared to accept that a fondness for ice cream, a lot of gore, and jumping fences as a shortcut constitutes a thematic link.
Mostly fans are going to be happy because these films have always been a sort of in-joke.
Pegg has a lovely time playing Gary King, a very overgrown adolescent whose peak life experience was a pub crawl with his mates in 1990 to mark the end of secondary school.
The others have more or less grown up and are not enraptured when Gary turns up inviting them to re-create that magical night, but against all their better judgement they are powerless to resist and go along.
Once the pub crawl begins they quickly realise that something is not quite right about their old home town.
Best thing: Nick Frost is a very funny guy and he has some great zingers here as Andy, Gary's disgruntled ex-best friend.
Worst thing: As with so many movies it does not quite know how to stop.
See it with: Some proof that you really are 13.
