- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have reunited for this film
- They play men who refuse to stop acting like boys
- The critic gave it grade of B+
(EW.com) -- Back in 2004, Edgar Wright's brilliantly subversive zombie comedy, "Shaun of the Dead," introduced American audiences to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
On screen the British Mutt-and-Jeff duo (who teamed up again with Wright for 2007's "Hot Fuzz") had the spark-spraying chemistry of two best mates who wasted their youth finishing each other's sentences at the local pub. Now they've all reunited for their third — and best — collaboration, "The World's End." As in their previous comedies, Pegg and Frost play men who refuse to stop acting like boys. But these pint-swilling Peter Pans also know how to work the heart and the brain for belly laughs.
Pegg stars as Gary, a pathetic screwup still living in the past who cons his four closest childhood pals (Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan) into returning to their quaint hometown after 20-odd years to reenact what he calls the best night of his life: an Odyssean 12-pub crawl ending at a watering hole named the World's End. Pegg's Gary is a selfish cad, not to mention a raging alcoholic, but Wright's film throws in a jarringly apocalyptic sci-fi twist about the hamlet's nonhuman denizens that gives him — and his stuck-in-a-rut buddies — a hilarious opportunity for midlife redemption. Wright doesn't quite stick the landing: The finale is a little too shaggy and silly. But what do you expect after a dozen beers? Grade: B+
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