The World’s End (2013)
82%RT Audience Score: 71%
Awards & Nominations: 4 wins & 28 nominations
Madcap and heartfelt, Edgar Wright’s apocalypse comedy The World’s End benefits from the typically hilarious Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with a plethora of supporting players
The World’s End is the perfect movie to watch with your mates while downing a few pints at the pub. It’s a hilarious comedy about a group of friends trying to complete a pub crawl while an alien invasion is happening. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s chemistry is unbeatable, and the movie is filled with British eccentricity, crap cars, and roundabouts. It’s a silly and fun salute to friendship and keeping your head in a crisis, even if it’s an alien invasion. Just don’t take it too seriously, and you’ll have a great time. Cheers!
Production Company(ies)
Icon Entertainment International, The Ladd Company, B. H. Finance C.V.
Distributor
Focus Features
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
Filming Location(s)
The Cork Public House, Welwyn Garden City, England, UK
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references.
Year of Release
2013
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Datasat Dolby Digital Dolby Surround 7.1
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:1h 49m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United Kingdom
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Aug 23, 2013 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2013
Genre(s)
Comedy
Keyword(s)
The World’s End, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright, Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Comedy, R, Box Office, $26.0M, Dolby SRD, Dolby SR, DTS, Datasat, reviewed by Deborah Ross, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Jason Bailey, Henry Barnes, Chris Stuckmann, Anthony Quinn, Don Shanahan, Josh Goller, Wesley Lovell, Mike Massie, Richard Propes, directed by Edgar Wright, written by Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, MPAA rating, pub-crawl, apocalypse, alien invasion, friendship, technology, consumerism, Hangover, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Gary King, Andy Knight, Steven, Oliver, Peter, Sam
Worldwide gross: $46,091,271
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $58,551,955
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,265
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 6,385,164
US/Canada gross: $26,004,851
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $33,035,211
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,247
US/Canada opening weekend: $8,811,790
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $11,194,040
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 925
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $20,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $25,406,961
Production budget ranking: 1,237
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $13,681,648
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $19,463,346
ROI to date (est.): 50%
ROI ranking: 1,154
Nick Frost – Andy Knight
Paddy Considine – Steven
Martin Freeman – Oliver
Eddie Marsan – Peter
Rosamund Pike – Sam
Director – Edgar Wright
Producers – Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Writers – Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright
Director(s)
Edgar Wright
Writer(s)
Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright
Producer(s)
Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
4 wins & 28 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (245) | Top Critics (68) | Fresh (217) | Rotten (28)
Either I’ve been slowly losing my sense of humour over the years – nope, just checked my pockets; still there – or these films been operating to the law of diminishing returns.
September 5, 2018
Deborah Ross
The Spectator
TOP CRITIC
Where Shaun Of The Dead was inspired, this is comfortingly repetitive. But hey, isn’t that the main attraction of any pub?
September 6, 2017 | Rating: 3/5
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
metro.co.uk
TOP CRITIC
It is a more mature piece of work, which seems a peculiar way to label a zippy comedy about drinking beer and outrunning the apocalypse.
June 19, 2016
Jason Bailey
Flavorwire
TOP CRITIC
The World’s End marks the third part of Pegg and Wright’s self-described “Cornetto trilogy.” It’s an appropriate moniker. With this final film they’ve slowed down a bit, grown up a lot. And saved the richest bite until last.
June 14, 2016 | Rating: 4/5
Henry Barnes
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
Pegg gives arguably his best performance in the three films, and his chemistry with Frost is unbeatable.
April 23, 2015 | Rating: A+
Chris Stuckmann
ChrisStuckmann.com
TOP CRITIC
It’s fine in its way, a fond and silly salute to pub crawls, old friends, crap cars, roundabouts, British eccentricity and keeping your head in a crisis — it’s just terribly hit-and-miss.
December 30, 2013 | Rating: 3/5
Anthony Quinn
Independent (UK)
TOP CRITIC
Another hour of drunken renewed bonding would have been wonderful, but the bright idea swerve of the alien invasion takes over and it all goes off the rails.
June 26, 2022 | Rating: 2/5
Don Shanahan
Every Movie Has a Lesson
In many ways, Gary is a more tragic extension of Pegg’s titular character in Shaun of the Dead, a slacker who never got his sh*t together and is running out of time to do so.
September 12, 2021
Josh Goller
Spectrum Culture
A fantastic end to a terrific, largely unrelated trilogy.
December 16, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
Wesley Lovell
Cinema Sight
In every instance that a meaningful exchange attempts to emerge, it’s swiftly suppressed with loudmouthed antics and ludicrous skirmishes.
December 4, 2020 | Rating: 2/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
Benefits greatly from the undeniable chemistry between Pegg and Frost.
September 27, 2020 | Rating: 3.0/4.0
Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
The World’s End is comedy gold… underscored by heavier themes: What is the true meaning of friendship, how does being overly reliant on technology and consumerism affect us and how much of our inner child should we give up in order to become an adult?
July 18, 2020
Damond Fudge
KCCI (Des Moines, IA)…
Plot
20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The World’s End benefits from the typically hilarious Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with a plethora of supporting players.
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