T.S. Elliot famously wrote, “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.” For “The World’s End,” Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s third entry into their Cornetto trilogy, the world doesn’t end with a whimper, but with ingenious laughter, making this off-the-chart genre-bending comedy the funniest and most original movie of the summer. Following up their classics “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz,” Wright and Pegg introduce priggish alcoholic Gary King (Pegg), a volatile social deviant forever stuck in his past, constantly attempting to re-live his prime when he and his friends made a failed attempt at an epic pub crawl which should have ended at the infamous The World’s End pub. Gary hits his nadir; a penniless, conniving alcoholic who decides to go on a seemingly suicidal journey to finally complete that epic pub crawl from his youth and finally make it to The World’s End. In doing so, King coerces his reluctant friends to reunite and join him, but as they get to their home town of Newton Haven, they realize that The World’s End is indeed a double entendre as the town’s inhabitants have all been replaced by identical alien robots. Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan are King’s buddies, and each brings to the film their own brand of comedy. Frost is excellent as Andy, stubborn and proudly sober, but when things get weird and he throws a few back, Frost is uproariously funny as he sheds his demure outer layer. Freeman plays up the nerdy stereotype nicely while Marsan comically struggles to overcome his timidity and Considine is the hopeless romantic. Together these actors make up one of the best ensemble casts of the year. It’s a delight to watch them riff off each other one moment then kick alien butt the next. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...est-most-original-movie-summer/#ixzz2cjbjvwoE
