Like Shaun of the Dead, Pegg and Frost’s first film, The World’s End is character- and situation-based humour rather than out-and-out gags. It’s a tried and true formula, as is the reliance on pubs, drinking and the undermining of horror film staples for comic effect. Rather than the zombies of Shaun, The World’s End features alien robots.
If ever a film was targeted at me then The World’s End is it. I make no apologies for loving a film where the main character is a 40-something year old who still drives the car I drove at University (a Ford Cortina/Escort) and pines for the days when his friends would have drinking sessions unencumbered by family responsibilities and work commitments.
That the pub-crawl in The World’s End is interrupted by alien robots only makes me like this film more.
Not only that, but The World’s End includes one of my favourite film quotes of all time, and a quote that neatly sums up the mood, theme and spirit of the film: “To err is human, so, err.”
