WARNING: SPOILERS
I have a boner for Simon Pegg.
That’s right. That’s how I’m starting this. Spaced is one of my favorite series of all time, and I consider it to be one of the best comedy series of all time. Shaun of the Dead is absolutely brilliant and Hot Fuzz is, well frankly their least successful I feel, but still decent! After 5 years of waiting, The Worlds End has finally been released, and boy…oh boy is it worth the wait. The first thing I should mention is that I felt The Worlds End was almost more serious than Pegg & Frosts other endeavors. Frost really had no emotional stake in Spaced, so outside of the mention at the start, Spaced is being removed from this review entirely. This is purely about their cornetto trilogy.
Shaun of the Dead kind of has a message I suppose, which would be the living and the dead aren’t really that different. If you think about it, Shauns every day life was the same. The same exact routine, so that’s almost being zombie like. Yes, the comparisons are there, but I don’t think they’re much to be made. To me, Shaun (and to a default Hot Fuzz) are both just comedies. But Worlds End seems different for some reason. It almost takes a large stance against technology in a way. I’m willing to bet if you’re reading this, you know what the film is about, so I’m not even going into that premise. But it’s true, it’s almost about being accepting of your mistakes and realizing that your flaws are what make you who you are, which is kind of what Shaun (and though I said I wouldn’t compare it, Spaced to an extent) also had going for it.
The Worlds End is about failure, first and foremost, which is what the majority of Peggs work seems to encompass, which is probably one of the reasons I connect to his stuff so much. The Worlds End is about just absolute failure as a human being, but how being a failure isn’t necessarily something to be ashamed of as it makes you human. It’s about being proud of being human.
It’s also about robots who look like people and are filled with blue paint.
The film is funny, yes, but-especially at the end-there seems to be a much more serious overtone than their other films. Even at its most serious moments, Shaun never got all that serious. The Worlds End DOES. I will say though, the first 30 minutes or so-and granted they’re setup-are pretty repetitive and almost…boring. I mean, it’s story building, and I don’t want to attack that because films are stories, but I feel it could’ve either been done better or been better written. I don’t know. They just fell flat for me really, even the comedy. But once the plot really kicks in, oh my god the film becomes phenomenal. Martin Freeman for me literally stole the movie for the short time he was in it, and I found myself really missing him once he was gone. Plus, he was the winning ticket to getting me to see the damn thing, on top of already loving their work, because, well…he’s Martin fucking Freeman.
But fangirling aside, the film is shot like their previous films and directed with the same Edgarness we’ve come to expect and love. The film is well written-serious and funny, which was nice-acted superbly and has a pretty great “message” to it, if you can gleam it. It also was really great with its effects. I really believed the stuff I was seeing on screen, which is a huge part of effects that we’re losing these days. This looked fantastic, so kudos to your effects team. Outside of my one little gripe-which may just have been a personal thing-about the slow beginning, The Worlds End was perfect from start to finish and I say 10/10 would view again.
The Worlds End Final Score: A+
I have a boner for Simon Pegg.
That’s right. That’s how I’m starting this. Spaced is one of my favorite series of all time, and I consider it to be one of the best comedy series of all time. Shaun of the Dead is absolutely brilliant and Hot Fuzz is, well frankly their least successful I feel, but still decent! After 5 years of waiting, The Worlds End has finally been released, and boy…oh boy is it worth the wait. The first thing I should mention is that I felt The Worlds End was almost more serious than Pegg & Frosts other endeavors. Frost really had no emotional stake in Spaced, so outside of the mention at the start, Spaced is being removed from this review entirely. This is purely about their cornetto trilogy.
Shaun of the Dead kind of has a message I suppose, which would be the living and the dead aren’t really that different. If you think about it, Shauns every day life was the same. The same exact routine, so that’s almost being zombie like. Yes, the comparisons are there, but I don’t think they’re much to be made. To me, Shaun (and to a default Hot Fuzz) are both just comedies. But Worlds End seems different for some reason. It almost takes a large stance against technology in a way. I’m willing to bet if you’re reading this, you know what the film is about, so I’m not even going into that premise. But it’s true, it’s almost about being accepting of your mistakes and realizing that your flaws are what make you who you are, which is kind of what Shaun (and though I said I wouldn’t compare it, Spaced to an extent) also had going for it.
The Worlds End is about failure, first and foremost, which is what the majority of Peggs work seems to encompass, which is probably one of the reasons I connect to his stuff so much. The Worlds End is about just absolute failure as a human being, but how being a failure isn’t necessarily something to be ashamed of as it makes you human. It’s about being proud of being human.
It’s also about robots who look like people and are filled with blue paint.
The film is funny, yes, but-especially at the end-there seems to be a much more serious overtone than their other films. Even at its most serious moments, Shaun never got all that serious. The Worlds End DOES. I will say though, the first 30 minutes or so-and granted they’re setup-are pretty repetitive and almost…boring. I mean, it’s story building, and I don’t want to attack that because films are stories, but I feel it could’ve either been done better or been better written. I don’t know. They just fell flat for me really, even the comedy. But once the plot really kicks in, oh my god the film becomes phenomenal. Martin Freeman for me literally stole the movie for the short time he was in it, and I found myself really missing him once he was gone. Plus, he was the winning ticket to getting me to see the damn thing, on top of already loving their work, because, well…he’s Martin fucking Freeman.
But fangirling aside, the film is shot like their previous films and directed with the same Edgarness we’ve come to expect and love. The film is well written-serious and funny, which was nice-acted superbly and has a pretty great “message” to it, if you can gleam it. It also was really great with its effects. I really believed the stuff I was seeing on screen, which is a huge part of effects that we’re losing these days. This looked fantastic, so kudos to your effects team. Outside of my one little gripe-which may just have been a personal thing-about the slow beginning, The Worlds End was perfect from start to finish and I say 10/10 would view again.
The Worlds End Final Score: A+
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