Every Edgar Wright Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

The World's End is the conclusion of the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, and, like the preceding two instalments, stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

This time around, Pegg is a 41-year-old alcoholic man-child who's desperately seeking to relive the glory days of his youth, while Frost is a clean, formal businessman who's ditched the reckless, beer-infused antics that Pegg cannot seem to let go of.

The pair, along with three other friends, return to their hometown of Newton Haven and attempt to complete the golden mile - a 12 pubs, 12 pints liver-destroying crawl - but along the way, they discover that the town has secretly been invaded by a race of alien body-snatchers.

Wright's speciality lies in taking a relatively normal, tried-and-true formula - a zombie movie, a village murder mystery, a heist-thriller - and slapping a fresh spin on it, taking our expectations of said formulas and chucking them right out the window.

The World's End is no different. He turns a pub-crawl comedy into an alien-invasion action-comedy in the blink of an eye, but this transition isn't at all jarring; it completely works.

The director cleverly sows the seeds of this transition (the name of each pub gives clues as to what will happen there, and if you look closely, you can see the alien ship land in the opening scene) and gives you time to get to know each character early on, so when all hell breaks loose, you're firmly along for the ride with them.

It's not quite as sharp or as witty as Shaun Of The Dead or Hot Fuzz, but that really is a nitpick. The World's End is a fine parable exploring the merits of retaining a piece of that teenage free-spiritedness throughout adulthood, and it also just happens to be gloriously funny.