Saturday, 10 May 2014

The final flavour?

The World's End (2013)

Directed by Edgar Wright this film stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Rosamund Pike. Five friends return to the town they grew up in to complete a pub crawl.

As with any Wright/Pegg collaboration there is tons of clever stuff to look out for here and I really enjoyed the heavy use of foreshadowing as well as the alien invasion as metaphor for the experience of returning home. There are some really funny moments but I am not sure the protagonists journey ever reaches a mature emotional conclusion. This may not be the best of the Cornetto trilogy but it is still a really great film with plenty of cameos and details to look out for.


4/5

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