Fellmans Movie Reviews

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The third and final film in the Cornetto Trilogy is the booze soaked, alien thrill ride that is “The World’s End”. The World’s End being a bar, or “pub” as they call it over in jolly Ol’ England. And not the literal end of the world. But, with a bit of wordplay and some metaphorical writing, the bar itself does become the end of the world. Because of aliens, interfering with humans once again. And I’ll tell you something else. Those aliens, those aliens wouldn’t be coming here to try and dress us up to incorporate us into their society. No, sir. No self-respecting aliens would want to talk to us. We’re the Alabama of the galaxy. They would either want to use us for food, energy, or scientific experiments. I mean, for all we know, we’re on a big petri dish right now. Just floating through the milky way, seeing what happens when you introduce a lot of biological beings and carbon dioxide onto the planet’s surface. It’s not exactly the most probable situation that could happen out of all the outcomes here on Earth. But it’s not exactly impossible now, is it? 

What’s it about? The World’s End is about, as you would expect, the end of the world. But not in the way that you might expect. It’s actually about a group of friends who get together after many years to do a pub crawl back in their hometown that consists of 12 different pubs. The last of which is called “The World’s End.” As they begin their expedition, they find out that they are in fact in the middle of an alien invasion and begin to get further and further into the plot as they get drunker and drunker all the while. Now, it turns out that not all the townsfolk have been replaced yet, nor disagree with what’s going on. But that doesn’t set right with Gary King and his band of rabble-rousing friends, as all they want to do is be free and cause mischief. In the end, (“The World’s End” as it were…), the world is destroyed as the alien consciousness breaks out and takes all of Earth’s technology with it, leaving Earth and all the humans in another “dark age”.  

What’s good? It’s a funny movie. Gary King is going all the time. It’s another good bit of writing by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. I think the dialogue is a lot better than the action is in this movie. The comedy and jokes are better than the fight scenes and car chases. 

What’s bad? I’m not sure about making it an action movie. Because it pretty much was an action movie. They’re fighting aliens from the beginning. And it’s a chase movie. And it ends with the giant explosion. There’s just a lot less comedy than the other two. 

The acting? The acting is great. It is in the other two as well. It’s great acting from everybody, all around. There’s no question about that.  

The effects? Plenty of great effects. Aliens, or robots, or robots that aren’t robots, with blue blood, or some kind of liquid… And their eyes and mouths glow… I don’t even know what that’s about yet… 

The robots. So, they ARE aliens. And they ARE robots. But then, what are they trying to combine with, if they’re not here to be hostile? It’s not like alien robots are going to inter-breed with humans to make alien-robot-human babies… I don’t think it works like that… Does it…? 

The robots that aren’t robots. So, some people don’t disagree with the robots and just want to go along with it. They talk about that all throughout the movie. I think that’s kind of the over-arching metaphor of the film. And I can understand that. The path of least resistance. I’m an easy-going guy myself. But I have to say, if some aliens came down and told me that I couldn’t do stuff anymore, I’d have to at least fight back… 

What’s the blue stuff? Why do they fill the robots with blue stuff? Why don’t they fill them with some sort of red, blood-looking substance so that it doesn’t look so suspicious when they get cut or their heads explode or something like that? Which, apparently, seems to happen pretty easily. Like, if one of those people were to get hurt or injured, it would be like, “Hey, why is your leg oozing that thick blue liquid…?” That’s kind of hard to explain. 

Why do they shatter like porcelain? And why are they so fragile? They shatter like a lamp that you drop on the floor at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Those alien robots could at least make their robots out of metal so that they don’t break as easily and then ooze blue liquid all over the place. It’s just the more practical solution. 

The end of the world seems like the beginning of a video game. This seems like how a story starts in some RPG. Some lonely warrior comes walking down the road after the apocalypse and gets accosted by a group of would-be bandits. But they don’t know who he is. And he turns out to be the main character of a new story about redemption and vengeance… 

So, yeah. Go and see The World’s End. It’s not as good as the other two flavors of the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, but it’s still pretty funny. It’s definitely worth watching. If for nothing else, the scene at the end with Nick Frost telling the story in front of the fire. And as always, keep on watching, with a smile on your face…