The Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End surely the greatest geek-friendly series of British comedy films ever to tear through cinema. A decade-spanning, unstoppable torrent of big laughs, unforgettable quotes and ambitious set pieces, recently completed with last year's arrival of The World's End, a sci-fi adventure in which five childhood friends reunite to attempt a fabled pub crawl in their hometown. A pub crawl which, in true Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright fashion, is interrupted by an invasion of alien robots. Each film in the cult trilogy, connected by writer/director Edgar Wright, best-mate leads Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and a gaggle of recurring jokes, is hilarious in its own right - with zombie-ridden debut and riotous quote-factory Shaun of the Dead most commonly regarded as the standout classic of the series. But what if blasphemous as it may sound Shaun isn't actually the best of the three? What about latecomer The World's End? Can a case be made that in terms of pure quality of writing, direction and performance part three (the oft-most derided instalment of any trilogy) is secretly a better film than its predecessors? Here are ten points which may well prove that to be so...
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