What do robots, beer and the human race have in common? The answer is “The World’s End.” The movie is a strange depiction of nostalgia combined with a search for freedom. “The World’s End” presents a completely different meaning to comedy and sheds a new light on the phrase “To err is human.”
The film follows the reunification of five friends who attempt to complete their ultimate triumph: The Golden Mile. The long stretch consists of drinking from 12 pubs with the final and most prominent being The World’s End. After having failed an attempt at the challenge in their youth, the group could not fall short this time. However, was it possible to do such a draining trek after years of settling down, taking jobs and getting married?
The men are shaken up as they hit a few hiccups along the way, suffering emotional and physical turmoil at the hands of previous lovers and robot townspeople. Led by their fearless and psychotic friend Gary King (Simon Pegg) the group must save the human race from robots attempting to perfect the earth with their idea of peace while drinking as much as they can heading to the pub of their dreams.
The actors are perfect in their roles. They are superb playing the plethora of different personalities represented in the film. Yet the acting does not make up for a plotline that completely falls apart when blue ink spurts from the robots as they get torn apart in the bathroom by the heroes.
Audience members are put on the edge of their seats as they have no clue what is about to happen in a movie without logic or any sense of reason. In the end one of the five friends, Andy Knightly (Nick Frost), sums up the reaction any sane person viewing the film should have, that is to jump through a window screaming “There is no time for this!”
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