The World's End Reviews

Retaining the hilarious chaos and offhand hipness expected of Mssrs. Wright, Pegg and Frost, The World's End doesn't quite spark with Shaun of the Dead's audacious freshness, but is great fun and a definite improvement over the fizz-free Hot Fuzz.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

You might want to have a beer after you see 'The World's End,' the latest from the creative team of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

To me, it is not quite up to the level of their previous films ('Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz') but it is still good enough to recommend.

Full Review | Original Score: B

the first part of the movie is so good--so knowing and funny and raucous and even bittersweet in its depiction of male arrested development--that all the sci-fi silliness that runs rampant in the second part feels derivative and unnecessary

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Let's hope this crew from the UK continues to stand up against the Starbucking of movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

I'd estimate that 75% of The World's End is enjoyable. The other 25% isn't bad, just repetitive.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The early going of the film is terrific ... This material is so strong that it's almost a shame when the science fiction angle takes over.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Pegg's character is obnoxious yet strangely charming, sort of like the movie, which ultimately provides more smiles than big laughs.

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But even with its flaws, The World's End serves up a wild plot, a boisterously engaging ensemble, and a sincere exploration of what friendship is.

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Wright/Frost/Pegg present a screwball Sci-fi comedy

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The most grown-up film of the trilogy. ... Instead of giving us characters who find happiness by rediscovering their youth, they show us the folly of resisting adulthood.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

A serious misfire, unfunny, unexciting, uninvolving and, perhaps the worst sin of all, incredibly self-indulgent to the detriment of the audience's enjoyment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The most inventive, humane comedy in ages, probably the best-directed action film of the summer, and easily the most intelligent science-fiction story in a year lousy with the things.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Simon Pegg is a funny man who can make any movie better with his performance, but not this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

The World's End is classic British comedy: It's anarchy versus conformity with conformity never standing a chance.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Doesn't quite live up to its immediate predecessor, Hot Fuzz, but handily bests the first film, Shaun of the Dead.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

The first 30 minutes had me hooked but when it turned into an over-the-top mashup of a sci-fi alien invasion flick you lost me, guys. Geeks will flock but so what?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Says the Rosamund Pike character: 'You come back (home), and everything is the same, but different.' The science-fiction element of the story, when it appears, offers a clever literal explanation for this unsettling, uncanny feeling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Pegg is at his manic best here, presenting Gary's arrested adolescence as a badge of honor, while also hiding a sad secret that explains his fierce determination to finish the pub crawl even as the robots turn lethal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Wright & Pegg continue making the sort of films that the 12-year-old versions of themselves probably always dreamed of being a part of; that sense of joy and practically disbelief that they actually get to do this for a living is right up there on-screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10