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

7. Chemistry

Another initially jarring departure from the well-established Cornetto dynamic was the bold decision to all but remove the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost bromance, at least until the very end. Instead, Pegg and Wright up their number of leads from two to five and yet again rise effortlessly to any challenge that may have cropped up in doing so. Shaun of the Dead €“ and to a lesser extent Hot Fuzz €“ focused on an ensemble of characters, but in each case the majority were partly sidelined in favour of the celebrated pair. This time round, everyone gets to play. Gary King and Frost's Andy Knightley give each other a wide berth for the bulk of the film so that the entire group of crawlers €“ the 'Five Musketeers' €“ can spar with one another and develop and demonstrate their varied set of kinks and idiosyncrasies. The dialogue comes thick, fast and funny, and the sense that this lot have known each other since childhood is reinforced throughout as the group move through waves of mistrust, disappointment and hearty nostalgia in quick succession. It's not just Pegg and Frost who get the best lines, either. Between Paddy Considine's Steven Prince adolescently pining over best mate Oliver's (Martin Freeman) sister Sam (Rosamund Pike) and Eddie Marsan's mawkish turn as pushover Peter Page, everybody is invited to be laugh-out-loud funny. The 'old-mates' chemistry is so believable that you'll wish you were invited to crawl the Golden Mile, even after things turn nasty.