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

5. The Last Act

The last act of a film is ultimately what leaves a taste in the mouths of its audience, and filmmakers would obviously like that taste to be closer to creamy, minty Cornetto than warm, stale lager. In this case, Pegg and Wright present us with far and away the funniest continual sequence of events and one-liners they've ever dished up. Hot on the heels of The World's End's (and the entire trilogy's) most dramatic scene €“ in which Gary and Andy alone make it to the titular pub and Gary's desperation is quantified via the reveal of a recent suicide attempt €“ the tone then u-turns completely as Gary and Andy then unwillingly descend into the bowels of the pub and are confronted with the bright, booming leader of the Network (voiced by trilogy veteran Bill Nighy). What follows is hilarious to no end. By now severely drunk after successfully necking eleven of his twelve pints, Gary stands atop a table and raucously defends humanity the only way he knows how €“ by shouting, swearing and refusing to take criticism. It's clear as day Pegg and Wright had a ball writing this scene, as each line rhetorically outdoes the last and matches Shaun's "He's never liked me and now he wants to shoot my mum" in terms of sheer, cry-laughing hilarity. From the aforementioned "Legoland" remark, through "To err is human, so... err..." to Steven Prince's eleventh hour arrival, nothing is less than fried gold. It's the gut-wrenchingly riotous conclusion to a decade of spellbinding British filmmaking and should have comedy writers the world over sitting up in envy. Richard Curtis certainly has his work cut out.