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The World's End

  • 20132013
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  • 1h 49m
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Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Simon Pegg, and Rosamund Pike in The World's End (2013)
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
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Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
285K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,860
71
    • Edgar Wright
    • Simon Pegg
    • Edgar Wright
  • Stars
    • Simon Pegg
    • Nick Frost
    • Martin Freeman
    • Edgar Wright
    • Simon Pegg
    • Edgar Wright
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    • Simon Pegg
    • Nick Frost
    • Martin Freeman
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    • 81Metascore
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    Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Simon Pegg, and Rosamund Pike in The World's End (2013)
    Simon Pegg in The World's End (2013)
    Paddy Considine, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg in The World's End (2013)
    Simon Pegg in The World's End (2013)
    Paddy Considine and Rosamund Pike in The World's End (2013)
    Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, and Simon Pegg in The World's End (2013)
    Paddy Considine, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, and Simon Pegg in The World's End (2013)
    Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, and Simon Pegg in The World's End (2013)
    Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, and Simon Pegg in The World's End (2013)
    Simon Pegg in The World's End (2013)
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    Edgar Wright in The World's End (2013)

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    Simon Pegg
    Simon Pegg
    • Gary King
    Nick Frost
    Nick Frost
    • Andy Knightley
    Martin Freeman
    Martin Freeman
    • Oliver Chamberlain
    Rosamund Pike
    Rosamund Pike
    • Sam Chamberlain
    Thomas Law
    Thomas Law
    • Young Gary
    Zachary Bailess
    • Young Andy
    Jasper Levine
    • Young Steven
    James Tarpey
    • Young Peter
    Luke Bromley
    Luke Bromley
    • Young Oliver
    Sophie Evans
    • Becky Salt
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    Samantha White
    • Erika Leekes
    Rose Reynolds
    Rose Reynolds
    • Tracy Benson
    Richard Hadfield
    • Young Shane
    Flora Slorach
    • Young Sam
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    Charlotte Reidie
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    • Trivia
      Felicity, Andy's assistant from the start of the film, is named after a young woman from Stockport, called Fliss, who tragically passed away. She was a massive Simon Pegg fan and he had sent her signed pictures at the request of her dad when she was ill. She passed before she could receive them. When Simon Pegg found out, he wrote the character into the movie in her memory.
    • Goofs
      When Gary crosses off the tenth pub on the map, the figure of the "modern art" statue can be seen on the map just below the second and third pubs. But since this is the same map he used for the original crawl, before The Network arrived, and since the statue is apparently part of The Network, it should not appear on the map. It is also apparent that the statue was not there at the time of the original Golden Mile since they wonder about what it is when they pass it earlier in the night.
    • Quotes

      Oliver Chamberlain: WTF, Gary. WTF.

      Gary King: What the fuck does WTF mean?

      Peter Page: [getting out the cubicle] What the fuck?

      Gary King: Ooohh yeah!

    • Crazy credits
      People going to see the film at the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth, the location for the outside of The Mermaid, were shown a short clip beforehand featuring Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost, welcoming them to the cinema and hoping they enjoyed watching it from inside one of the filming locations.
    • Connections
      Featured in Projector: The World's End (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Summer's Magic
      (Luc Aulivier, Jacques Charriere, Serge Danot, Alain Legrand, Mark Summers)

      Performed by Mark Summers

      Courtesy of Island Records Ltd

      Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd

    User reviews552

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    A surprisingly witty satire for the summer doldrums of August
    "We're going to see this through to the bitter end. Or... lager end." Gary King (Simon Pegg)

    Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are at it again satirizing pop culture, this time with an entertaining send up of zombie movies (even their own spoof, Shaun of the Dead) and boy-man buddy vacations like Hangover. Five middle-aged blokes, led by the perennially immature Gary King (still the "King," he'd like to think), return after 20 years to their hometown to finish the crawl to the 12th and final pub, The World's End.

    The obvious allegory is fun to follow as robotic replicas of actual humans try to take over the world. Their mission is to make earth and humans perfect, a goal any lame brain knows is impossible. Aliens have been trying to conquer earth since movies began with little success given our need for independence and ingenuity finding the alien weaknesses.

    The real strength of The World's End is in the dialogue with its rapid repartee. For example:

    Gary King: And here we go! Just like the five musketeers. Steven Prince: Three musketeers wasn't it? Gary King: Well nobody knows how many there were really do they? Oliver: You do know that The Three Musketeers was a fiction right, written by Alexander Dumas. Gary King: A lot of people are saying that about the bible these days. Steven Prince: What, that it was written by Alexander Dumas. Gary King: Don't be daft, Steve; it was written by Jesus.

    Covering authorship and ignorance issues while being amusingly clueless is the endearment of Pegg and Wright's democratic humor—after all, none of the players is exempt from stupidity.

    Perhaps more importantly, however, is the thematic point about never being able to go home again. The protagonists grew up in the same town, and returning to finish their crawl reveals that no one remembers them! Of course, since the townies are almost all robots, they couldn't remember them anyway. Yet the point is figuratively well taken: Nobody cares about you after you're gone.
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    • jdesando
    • Aug 22, 2013

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      • August 23, 2013 (United States)
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      • The Cork Public House, Welwyn Garden City, England, UK
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