History Film / TheWorldsEnd

''The World's End'' is a British-American science-fiction comedy released in the summer of 2013, directed and written by Creator/EdgarWright, co-written and starring Creator/SimonPegg, and co-starring Creator/NickFrost, Creator/PaddyConsidine, Creator/MartinFreeman, Creator/EddieMarsan and Creator/RosamundPike.

Gary King (Pegg) is a ManChild who decides to reunite his old gang of friends, Andy Knightley (Frost), Steven Prince (Considine), Oliver Chamberlain (Freeman), and Peter Page (Marsan) after losing touch 20 years ago. They've all got perfectly normal lives now, whereas Gary is still walking around in the same awful clothes, wearing the same pitch black sunglasses and spouting the same old nonsense. Recalling the "Golden Mile" pub crawl they failed in their teens, Gary convinces them to return to their childhood village of Newton Haven, determined to [[OneLastFieldTrip finally do a complete run]].

Things start out slow with the crawl, with everyone tired by Gary's antics right from the get-go. The guys make an effort to catch up with each other, enjoy the evening and get a bit of CharacterDevelopment in while they're at it, but their hearts just aren't in it. And then, just as they're about to call it a day, something seems... ''off'' about the pubs. Really off. Really ''really'' off. Cue things escalating, and the group soon has to wrestle with decidedly more than they bargained for, in addition to [[SkewedPriorities Gary's unwavering determination to finish the Golden Mile]].

This is the final installment of the "Film/BloodAndIceCreamTrilogy", preceded by ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' and ''Film/HotFuzz'', all of which were directed by Creator/EdgarWright and starred Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost.

** All the Blanks wear blue clothing. So do [[spoiler:Oliver]] and [[spoiler:Peter]].

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:The Network, an extraterrestrial intelligence/society, has been guiding human culture and technological development since the late '80s/early '90s. Related to this, it has spread the ideals of polite manners, civic mindedness and community through corporate culture, homogenized commercial branding and replacing people who revolt with inhuman "robots" hosting people's memories. The dissenters are [[DeadlyEuphemism recycled]] as fertilizer.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Network has left Earth, but in the process the planet is knocked back to the Dark Ages. Peter and Oliver are both dead and replaced by Blanks, while Gary resorts to WalkingTheEarth and Andy hasn't seen him since. And Gary ''still'' didn't finish the crawl, due to the entire village of Newton Haven being destroyed. However, Andy points out that his previously rocky marriage is back on track, and Steven and Sam are living rather happily in a "shack" just outside London. And Gary appears to have conquered his alcoholism as well as found purpose in his life.]]

* ArcNumber: Edgar Wright has stated that he did his best to include the 'number' of each pub (according to where it appears on The Golden Mile) somewhere in its scene (he did something similar with the Evil Exes in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''). These can usually be spotted on the chalkboards/signs or table numbers. For example, a table behind [[spoiler: Mr. Shepherd]] in pub #9 The Beehive shows a place-card with a 9 on it. See a collage [[https://twitter.com/Caerynyvon/status/381906944081932288 here]].

* ComingOfAgeStory: The late bloomer variant for Gary King: The movie is primarily about Gary trying to reconnect to his glory days as a popular teenager by bringing his former childhood friends back to Newton Haven. [[spoiler: He also learns to pick himself up from rock bottom after confronting his childhood trauma and breaking his coping mechanism of retreating into the past. His depression stems from the fact that his adulthood was nothing like he was promised and he realised his glory days no longer have any merit in his adulthood.]]

''The World's End'' is a British-American science-fiction comedy released in the summer of 2013, directed and written by Creator/EdgarWright, co-written and starring Creator/SimonPegg, and co-starring Creator/NickFrost, Paddy Considine, Creator/MartinFreeman, Creator/EddieMarsan and Creator/RosamundPike.

* ArcNumber: Edgar Wright has stated that he did his best to include the 'number' of each pub (according to where it appears on The Golden Mile) somewhere in its scene (he did something similar with the Evil Exes in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''). These can usually be spotted on the chalkboards/signs or table numbers. For example, a table behind [[spoiler: Mr Shepherd]] in pub #9 The Beehive shows a place-card with a 9 on it. See a collage [[https://twitter.com/Caerynyvon/status/381906944081932288 here]].

* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Friday nights at The Mermaid are "School Disco" night. All the girls dress like this; the boys dress like Catholic school boys, too. Even Basil gets in on the act, dressed as a teacher in mortarboard-and-gown. [[spoiler: Apparently this was all the Network needed to do to get DNA from Peter, Andrew and Gary.]] This has nothing to do with Catholic schools, these are just normal British school uniforms.

* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Friday nights at The Mermaid are "School Disco" night. All the girls dress like this; the boys dress like Catholic school boys, too. Even Basil gets in on the act, dressed as a teacher in mortarboard-and-gown. [[spoiler: Apparently this was all the Network needed to do to get DNA from Peter, Andrew and Gary.]]. This has nothing to do with Catholic schools, these are just normal British school uniforms.

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* BlueIsHeroic: Inverted with the blanks and anything associated with them. The most obvious is that they usually dress in blue and green clothing.

* ThematicSeries: The final installment of the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy. None of the movies are direct sequels (and if they exist in the same world [[YouLookFamiliar there are an awful lot]] of {{Doppelganger}}s running around). Though even then, they couldn't be in the same continuity because ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'''s ending showed that [[spoiler: Zombies were being used as cheap manual labour, in which this movie showed a severe lack (not even a mention) of zombie slaves]]

** Peter's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on his former bully when he tried to apologise for his past behaviour must count [[spoiler:though the fact that said bully is a Blank does diminish things somewhat]]

* InsistentTerminology: The doppelgängers are ''not'' "robots" (because "robot" is Czech for "slave". After a whole scene spent trying to invent a term for them, the gang settles on "Blanks" by default.

** When they're getting ready to go in the car, a conversation about [[Creator/AlexandreDumas Alexandre Dumas']] Literature/TheThreeMusketeers briefly occurs. During this Oliver points that The Three Musketeers is a fiction written by Alexandre Dumas, to which Gary replies that a lot of people were saying that about Literature/TheBible (i.e. that the Bible is a fiction). Steven jokingly asks if he means that it was written by Alexandre Dumas, to which Gary replies that it was written by Jesus.

** "Look at the town in it's original colours, cos tonight we're gonna paint it red!" [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Newton Haven is engulfed by a giant, red fireball.]]

** Andy asks [[spoiler:the Network]] how successful their plan has been. [[spoiler:The Network]] sheepishly replies there have [[{{Understatement}} some issues]]. [[spoiler:Like 95% of the towns' population being mulched.]]

''The World's End'' is a British science-fiction comedy released in the summer of 2013, directed and written by Creator/EdgarWright, co-written and starring Creator/SimonPegg, and co-starring Creator/NickFrost, Paddy Considine, Creator/MartinFreeman, Creator/EddieMarsan and Creator/RosamundPike.

** [[Creator/PeteSerafinowicz]] (a.k.a [[Series/{{Spaced}} Duane Benzie]] and Pete from Film/SShaunOfTheDead) shows up in a blink and you miss it cameo as the man whose home Gary ding-dong-ditches.

** [[Creator/PeteSerafinowicz]] (a.k.a [[Series/{{Spaced}} Duane Benzie]] and Pete from Film/ShaunOfTheDead]] shows up in a blink and you miss it cameo as the man whose home Gary ding-dong-ditches.

* GracefulLoser: Subverted. [[spoiler:The Network initially seems to be willing to leave, if not in good grace at least with a minimum of fuss. Then it spitefully knocks out human technology on the way out.]]

* DistractedByTheSexy: Peter, Andy and especially Gary are more than pleased to be seduced by The Marmalade Sandwich. Even when he's told by Stephen they're Blanks, Gary criticizes, "Don't be so ''judgemental''!"

'''Oliver:''' ''(guiltily nervous)'' What are you saying?