10 Reasons Why The World's End Is Secretly The Best Of The Cornetto Trilogy

1. A Worthy End

The World's End depicts the end in more ways than the obvious. Early in the film, when attempting to recruit his old friends for the pub crawl, Gary remarks "It's about closure. It's about, why should something like getting old affect something as important of friendship?" This line sums up more than Gary King's immature disposition, it sums up the entire trilogy. King very much embodies the trilogy itself €“ he is immature yet still funny, geeky yet still stylish and obsessed with reliving japes from years ago. While the rest of the cast is made up of now highly esteemed British actors €“ Sherlock and The Hobbit's Martin Freeman, award-winning director, Shane Meadows collaborator Paddy Considine, and even Nick Frost, who had no acting experience prior to working on Spaced, has since gone on to bigger things, it's still endearingly immature. As the trilogy is very much the passion project of Wright and Pegg, it is only fitting that Pegg play the one member of the group who doesn't want things to change and is reticent to change himself. The World's End is the worthiest of endings imaginable for the superb trilogy, an ending alluded to by the Cornetto wrapper that flutters in the wind in the film's epilogue €“ devoid of ice cream, unattainable and then spirited away into the ether. Ultimately, Gary King learns to move on to a degree €“ he is still reliving the Golden Mile but has overcome his alcohol addiction. Such is the outlook of the writers €“ they may go on to deliver greater, more serious work (Wright is on the cusp of adding a chapter the phenomenally successful Marvel Cinematic Universe and Pegg is a prominent fixture in the rebooted Star Trek franchise), but they will never really lose that disposition for unadulterated, geeky humour and love for cult cinema.