The World's End Reviews
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
The film's strength is its comedic bent - there are some very funny moments contained herein.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Robert Frost famously mused 'Some say the world will end in fire/Some say in ice.' I prefer Edgar Wright's vision: It will end in a pub.
The movie throws itself headlong toward the ridiculous when it begins to live up to its title.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Most of the credit belongs to Wright, whose chaotic style belies the film's meticulous construction.
To my surprise, a diamond has emerged from the gutter. Its name is The World's End, and it'll knock you on you ass from laughing when you're not rubbing your eyes in disbelief.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Although its humor is not for all tastes, no one can say this crazy picture doesn't have the guts to live up to its title.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It overflows with middle-aged angst over lost youth. And laments the generic nature of our corporate-driven culture.
Let's hope Wright, Pegg and Frost concoct more wild doomsday scenarios together. Their work makes for a good time at the movies ...
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| Original Score: 3/4
This is cheeky British irreverence at its best, and there's even a bit of meaning and moral behind it all if you can see through the laughter.
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| Original Score: B
Life's too short to waste your time on this, even if the end isn't near.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Don't feel excluded if you haven't seen the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead and the buddy cop comedy Hot Fuzz... because The World's End stands on its own as hilarious high-end nonsense.
I pretty much unreservedly loved The World's End, whose compact dramatic structure and steady flow of good jokes puts most mainstream American comedies-too often loosely bundled collections of hit-or-miss sketches-to shame.
The movie shifts midstream ... and never regains its footing.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Wright knows how to keep the energy spinning, but he also doesn't know when to stop.
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| Original Score: 2/4
This inspired nutball comedy is like its heroes on their mission: It just gets progressively more nuts, more blotto.
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| Original Score: 3/4
"The World's End" is more like an antic sugar high than a reeling, drunken stupor. There are no headaches, dry mouth or crushing shame at the end - no "Hangover," in other words. I'll drink to that.
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| Original Score: 4/5
It's outrageous satire, bruisingly funny slapstick and - while never too snooty to stoop for lowdown laughs - deliciously smart besides.
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| Original Score: 4/4
"The World's End" is more frantic than funny, but it's still funny enough-just-to outweigh its own silliness.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The movie independently bungles everything it tries, like a Central Park busker who simultaneously sucks at juggling, harmonica playing and skateboarding.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
"The World's End" has the aura - and this might only be an attractive illusion - of something imagined whole, in a burst of inspiration, rather than as something labored over.
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| Original Score: 3/4
An arrested-development comedy that develops into something else altogether.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The movie is madly, wonderfully at odds with itself.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Some inner logic may not hold up under the sober light of day, but this unusual action-comedy has the loosey-goosey feel of something that can't miss, like a soused round of bar pool.
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| Original Score: 4/5
It's about as much fun as you'll have at a movie this summer, especially if you see it at one of those theaters that serve beer.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Even for its flaws, it is hard to ask for more from a late summer movie than "The World's End."
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
It's a little too close to "Shaun of the Dead" (and to Wright's "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World") in its structure and gags, and while there are plenty of laughs, you wish they were bigger ones, particularly in the beginning.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The movie never makes fun of geek tropes, but it does indulge in rapid-fire pop culture allusions that go so bloody fast you need to see it twice to catch them all.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Wright still cuts his footage with a youthful vigor, capturing every tapped pint of lager with a snappy hiss, but his players (especially Frost and Pegg) are ready to go darker.
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| Original Score: 5/5
It's the nerd-dream technological singularity turned into a logistical nightmare, where free will is diametrically opposed to the next stage of our evolution.
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| Original Score: 3/4
"The World's End" one of those bittersweet coming-home films that show how difficult it is to really, well, go home. Because it's never the same.
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| Original Score: 3/4
As a beer-lover might put it, an experience that's both heady and effervescent
The laddish pleasures of The World's End, Edgar Wright's comedy about a group of middle-aged guys drinking beer and facing mortality, come with a bittersweet edge.
The World's End might be the best time you'll have at the movies all year. It is a complete blast: urgently paced, hilariously clever and blisteringly profane.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
This is by light-years the most entertaining movie of the year. How many apocalyptic sci-fi action extravaganzas leave you feeling as if the world is just beginning?
Wright's terrifically precise approach to comedy remains as well-honed as ever.
This is a tighter, smarter film than either 'Shaun of the Dead' or 'Hot Fuzz', and buried beneath all the blue-goo aliens and terrible punning is a heartfelt meditation on the perils and pleasures of nostalgia.
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| Original Score: 4/5
At once a Big Chill-style old-pal reunion story and an Invasion of the Body Snatchers homage doused in beer and bad-boy humor ...
The latest highly enjoyable exercise in jaunty pastiche from writer-director Edgar Wright and writer-thesp Simon Pegg, the brains behind "Shaun of the Dead," and "Hot Fuzz."
