World's End (2013)

Starring Simon Pegg & Nick Frost; Directed by Edgar Wright. Written by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright.

So, what is The World's End? It's a buddy reunion film about five childhood best friends who are roped into reliving one of their childhood goals: their hometown's Golden Mile. A bar crawl of 12 pubs in one night. They didn't make it all the way when they were younger and now, their ring leader, Gary Knight (Simon Pegg) is determined to finish it this time. Why? Because that was the best night of his life and his life has not turned out the way he wanted. But it's never as easy as that when you're in a Cornetto Trilogy. There were zombies in Shaun of the Dead, murderous townspeople who wanted to keep the peace in Hot Fuzz and now, there are Stepford-like robots in World's End.


*BTW Cornetto: are those ice cream cones.
In Shaun of the Dead, Nick Frost's character eats a red (strawberry) one
In Hot Fuzz, Nick Frost's character eats a blue (Original) one
And a green (mint chocolate chip) one flies and hits a chain-link fence in World's End.

It's said that the red symbolizes the impending blood and gore.
The blue represents police.
While green is representative of aliens. All of which symbolize each film.
It really is quite clever.

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The main bulk of the reviews I read comprised of everyone complaining about how thick the British accents were for the main characters. My thoughts? Challenge! Also, Nick Frost (who everyone should know as one part of the Shaun of the Dead / Hot Fuzz / Paul duo) is the only name actor in it. Give it some good reviews, hard to find release in theaters and a free Redbox rental and I'm renting it!

Of course, as soon as I popped the disc into the player, I couldn't remember what it was about. Zombies? Aliens? Bullies? What kind of a film was it that I was getting myself into? Is it an independent film? Is it a cheap British film? Is it even worth watching?
Yeah, I watched it.