Movie of the Week: World's End

[jacey]

Twenty years on from their school-leaving celebration (an epic twelve-pub crawl), which they failed to complete, Gary King, a man who has nothing in his life, tries to get his childhood friends back together for one more try. Gary cajoles his reluctant comrades back to their hometown and mayhem begins. Their final destination, The World's End, is more apt that they first assume, especially when they notice that something has changed and the townsfolk are behaving very oddly. Motto, never start a fight in the gents with a yobbo who proves to be a blue-blooded (literally) robot.

I really like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost so it's a pity that this film wasn't quite as clever or as funny as it thought it was. Pegg plays King brilliantly, a sad man destroyed by drink and drugs, trying to recapture what he remembers as the last good time he had. Reminiscences about old times reveal some painful truths.

Definitely a split personality movie, but for me the serious undertones didn't mesh comfortably with the comedy overtones and too many gags relied on finding barfing over your shoes hilarious.