Not Bad!

The World's End. Not bad!

This isn't a movie review blog, and I'm not getting paid, so I'm not going to go all in with a bunch of details. This is a blog where I write about movie stuff that pisses me off, and Edgar Wright's films generally don't piss me off.

The ending seemed totally unnecessary, and honestly, some of the fight sequences were a bit overlong and repetitive... but now I'm just looking for stuff to call out, and that's kinda being a jerk. Like I said, I'm not getting paid for this; there's no quota for me to fill.

Look, it is what it is. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and doesn't ask you to either. The cheesiest moments are meant to be that way, very tongue-in-cheek and all that. Like the two before it, the final film in the Cornetto Trilogy is a spoof of a particular film genre (and to some degree, of films in general), without anchoring itself to every trope of that genre. It takes the core concept -- in this case, the body-snatching alien race -- and then runs in a different direction with it. Usually toward a fence.

Oh shit! Um, spoilers on that alien invasion part. And maybe the fence.

Ahh, fuck it. You should have had all that figured out from the trailers. And if you're the type who deliberately avoids trailers, yet somehow are ALSO the type who waits until it's on DVD... then screw you, douchebag, you had that coming.

Really, though, it was very much in line with the rest of the "trilogy" (for those who are confused: the three films, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End are unrelated stories, just made by and starring the same people). There were the usual poignant moments, the brief bursts of sympathy, but only enough to give the characters an arc and help to flesh out the story. Never enough to make you tear your clothing in grief and denial when a key character dies -- spoilers again, woops -- which is appropriate for a spoof.  The Cornetto films are just particularly clever spoofs. Which is why they're not called "Zombie Movie", "Cop Movie", and "Alien Invasion Movie".

(Look at that. Managed to be just a little bitchy about movies after all.)

And accidentally kinda reviewed The World's End, too. Somebody pay me, dammit!

EDIT: Full disclosure, I enjoyed the movie. My wife and I laughed out loud often. But this blog isn't called I LOVE That I Love Movies.