The much-anticipated end to the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, The World's End is perhaps the most surreal of the lot, as Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and the gang encounter alien life during a pub crawl. As more alcohol is consumed, the bizarreness increases, culminating in Frost and Pegg, drunkenly confronting the Network. As anyone who's ever been on a night out can testify, things can certainly get weirder the more you drink; it's perhaps no surprise that the pair get themselves into the mess they do. But how much of it is actually true? Gary King and his band of brothers only actually uncover alien activity after a couple of pints; convenient to say the least, as everything's more believable with a drink inside you. Continued fighting with robots breaks throughout, followed by frantic chases, a confrontation with Pierce Brosnan - they really must be trollied by now - and then at last, the face-off with the head of the alien robots; it all escalates from the first pint, so what if it's all the imagined tale of a night out? What perhaps makes this idea quite so beautiful is the apocalypse at the end of film, where modern technology is wiped out, and humanity heads back to the dark ages. If that's not the ultimate hangover metaphor, I don't know what is.
