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

3. Honouring The Past

The World's End concludes a tonal thread that began not with 2004's Shaun of the Dead, but with Spaced - the 1999 sitcom that first drew the talents of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright together. Each film in the ensuing trilogy strove to include as many actors from the acclaimed TV series as possible, and the final entry concludes the trend, finally adding a cameo from Mark Heap, who played eccentric artist Brian. In fact, the only key actor from Spaced to not have appeared in the Cornetto trilogy is Katy Carmichael (Twist). In the realms of the trilogy itself, Pegg and Wright have made sure that every actor who had appeared in both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy and Rafe Spall among the many) also features in The World's End, which fully brings home the idea that though these three films are unconnected with regards to characters and narratives, they are very much parts of a greater whole and each individually recognisable as a relative to the others. Even the premise of The World's End brings the trilogy together somewhat, being as it is an amalgam of the previous films: our characters arrive in a small town wherein strange local behaviour seems commonplace (Fuzz), and decide that €“ in spite of the mounting terror €“ going to the pub is still the best plan (Shaun). The Network robots themselves are also something of a cross between the zombies of Shaun and the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance of Fuzz.