In 1990, in the town of Newton Haven, Gary King (Simon Pegg) leads a group of young men on an adventure down the Golden Mile as they attempt to visit all 12 pubs in one night, winding up at "The World's End." They never completed the trek. The group grew up and scattered. Gary has decided he needs to go back and do the 12 pub drinking trek at age 40 as a rite of passage, his life's accomplishment. He gets the reluctant gang back and off they go.The film starts out like a fairy decent comedy and then suddenly Newton turns into Stepford. In spite of their lives and the planet being in danger, Gary still wants to complete the quest as the best way NOT to draw attention to themselves. The film was funny and when the Doors started to play, I had to laugh and sing with the film.The theme of the film is about conformity as a swap of freedoms for comfort. It portrays conformists as robots of the system, all working for the common good.Good quirky comedy that will be added to my collection. Highly recommended for those who like a smart British comedy.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No nudity. Implied sex.

I expected something better from this film because it brings together some great actors and the director is known for his former films, which I liked a lot. But I was disappointed and I was praying for this film to end when I was watching it.

I really couldn't decide which film I liked more, Hot Fuzz or this one, so I had to give them the same rating. They're in the Cornetto trilogy but they couldn't be any more different. This really is the most imaginative film of the three while it battles with growing up and not living in the past. Not to mention this is an amazing cast; arguably the best cast of the three films. It's a film that goes off the rails, but not in a bad way, but a carefully designed one. It's also where I first fell in love with Rosamund Pike.

I find it very odd that identical film concepts always seem to appear within a few months of each other, even if they were conceived totally in isolation - 'Olympus Has Fallen'/'White House Down', 'Deep Impact'/'Armageddon', 'This Is The End'/'The World's End'. In this case, although I liked 'This Is The End', I enjoyed 'The World's End' much more. It is faster paced, has more laugh-out-loud moments, a better soundtrack and a more satisfying conclusion.Yes, it's the end of the "Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy", but hopefully only the middle of Wright/Frost/Pegg's working career together, since 'Spaced', 'Shaun of the Dead' & 'Hot Fuzz' have all been great. This film takes plenty of time to establish the characters and give them each a backstory. Once they eventually discover the "blanks", they're a quarter of the way through the pub crawl - "The Golden Mile". Best quote - Pegg to Frost: "A man of your legendary prowess drinking rain! It's like a lion eating humus!"From there on, it's a battle - literally, with the Pierce Brosnan-led "blanks" - and verbally between the "five musketeers", as Pegg tries to get them to all twelve pubs, despite their dire circumstances. There are plenty of throwbacks to 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', and the action really ramps up in the last 30min. The best bit is probably Bill Nighy at the end, with Pegg & Frost arguing with him and using the refrain of "Because I'm free, to do what I want, to be what I want, any old time. And I'm free, to be who I choose, to get my booze, any old time" which has been recurring since the start of the film (from the Soup Dragons' 1990 cover, not the Rolling Stones' 1965 original).