This was the third movie in the unofficial trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End. They are all essentially the same concept - a peaceful, small town turns out to not be peaceful as a result of something terrible that is happening to everyone there except for Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and a handful of others.
We follow Pegg's character - who has never grown out of his young partying mentality - as he rounds up all of his old friends to go for a recreation of an old bar crawl that they failed at so many years ago. The goal is to go from one bar to the next down the "golden mile"to ultimately end at the bar called "The World's End."
In the process, they discover something is wrong with the town, and they have to try to figure it out and defend themselves while acting normally - which means completing their bar crawl. All the while, the evil builds up around them and their own personal demons combine with issues that they thought the dealt with in the past coming back to haunt them.
It's pretty funny, but it is nowhere near as funny as Shaun of the Dead was. Hot Fuzz was entertaining enough, and it was definitely a better movie than this one. Pegg does his usual decent job, and Frost plays the gentle giant who can go nuts every now and then. It was nice to see the Hobbit Martin Freeman again - I'm looking forward to the third season of Sherlock.
So, this movie was fairly middle of the road, but it actually wasn't quite.
2.25/5