The World's End (2013): My Apocalyptic Chat with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright
Read my conversation with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost, the three masterminds of "Spaced," "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz," and the new sci-fi/comedy extravaganza, "The World’s End."
Today at Response, you can read my conversation with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost, the three masterminds of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and today's sci-fi/comedy extravaganza, The World's End.
And by the way, I loved the movie.
But don't just take my word for it.
Check out the reviews from some of the critics I respect most...
he year's most virtuosic and consistently entertaining movie comedythe most delightfully literary script of any that's unspooled across a cinema screen this yearthe most delightfully and sensibly eccentric mainstream picture I've seen in some time
Scott Renshaw at Salt Lake City Weekly:
gloriously, intelligently, affectionately, hilariously bonkers
Josh Larsen at Larsen On Film:
The World’s Endthe year’s best action sequences.
Mike D'Angelo at Las Vegas Weekly:
try to avoid finding outthe same level of pop-culture hilarity as in their previous filmsa superb ensemble caststranger than you imagine.
The World’s End timely and refreshingEverything is motivated by the story they’re telling and the ideas they’re expressing
Matt Zoller Seitz at RogerEbert.com:
audaciously funny and inventively designedNothing, no matter how extravagant or surreal, is superfluous....
... in an era in which mainstream movies not only lack rhythm but seem to have forgotten how to dance, this one's briskness is inspiring. Its judgment is nearly unerring, and it has a sense of joy that's rare. Like most genre films, "The World's End" is working things through in an extremely broad way and having a grand time doing it, and its self-deprecating wit inoculates it against self-importance. The movie wears its themes on its sleeve and pins its symbols to its puffed-out rooster's chest, swaggers about with a proud grin jabbing thumbs at itself, then walks into an open manhole. It's magnificent.