February 15, 2014The third part of their blood and ice cream trilogy, or Cornetto trilogy, or whatever they're calling it, The World's End gets better every time I see it. I can't honestly decide which of the three films (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End) is my favorite. I love them all. The World's End follows five school friends as they rally behind their fearless leader, Gary King, and try to complete an epic pub crawl. They fail, but still consider it one of the greatest nights of their lives. Twenty years later, while all the other guys have moved on to successful careers, Gary King (Simon Pegg) is still stuck in those glory days of his past. He wears the same clothes and drives the same car and still fantasizes about making it to the end of the pub crawl. In one last attempt to finish it, he rounds up the old gang and heads back to their old home town to try again, only this time everything is different, and the town is now populated with blanks - some kind of healthier, happier clones filled with blue ink - that try to take over the bodies of the friends. After they find out what is going on with the blanks, the guys decide it would be safer to not let on that they know, and they continue on their pub crawl. The others eventually try to give it up and leave but King is so set on making it because finishing the pub crawl is the only thing in his life worth living for. He makes it to the end, but the end isn't what it seems, and it builds to a catastrophic climax leaving the world in ruins. The World's End is a beautiful movie and a fitting finale to the trilogy.
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