The World's End Reviews
TheDivaReview.com
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Laramie Movie Scope
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.
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| Original Score: B
Seven Days
Let's hope this crew from the UK continues to stand up against the Starbucking of movies.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Aisle Seat
I'd estimate that 75% of The World's End is enjoyable. The other 25% isn't bad, just repetitive.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Creative Loafing
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cinemalogue.com
Pegg's character is obnoxious yet strangely charming, sort of like the movie, which ultimately provides more smiles than big laughs.
KPBS.org
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.
Movie Habit
Wright/Frost/Pegg present a screwball Sci-fi comedy
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| Original Score: 3/4
Response
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.
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| Original Score: A-
Antagony & Ecstasy
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.
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| Original Score: 8/10
honeycuttshollywood.com
The World's End is classic British comedy: It's anarchy versus conformity with conformity never standing a chance.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Doesn't quite live up to its immediate predecessor, Hot Fuzz, but handily bests the first film, Shaun of the Dead.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Salt Lake Tribune
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Top CriticWright & 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.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Needcoffee.com
What if John Wyndham decided to write a comedy?
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
The film's strength is its comedic bent - there are some very funny moments contained herein.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Beliefnet
I refuse to call it a trilogy....I hope they end up with at least as many in the series as there are flavors of Cornetto ice cream treats.
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| Original Score: B+
Television Without Pity
A rollicking entertainment, boasting some terrific (and terrifically unexpected) plot twists, a bunch of laugh-out-loud gags and clever action set-pieces.
