The World's End review: In this hot weather, cool off with a Cornetto!

The boys are back in town in The World's End

Disaster movies are hitting the cinemas hard this summer, with This Is The End and World War Z all out now, so it seems appropriate that Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost's third instalment, of what they are now deeming "The Cornetto Trilogy", has been released now.

Wright, director of both Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz presents The World's End, fronted by his two favourite teammates Pegg and Frost, but this time including some other very famous names in the biz thrown in for good measure.

Gary King (Pegg), a 40-something man, still as attached to his past as he is his 1980's spawned leather jacket, struggling to find his way in life suddenly remembers a failed attempt at a pub crawl he tried with his four mates back when he was at school. Fuelled by the fact that he was only truly happy on that night, he drags the now grown-up group back to their hometown of Newton Haven to finish what they started. Only the others aren't quite as up for a wild night as Gary!

Amongst jibing about Gary's lack of respect for anyone but himself and the fact that he can't let go of the past, the gang realise their once boring, lifeless town is a even more boring and lifeless than it once was. Soon they're fighting their way out of town, against an army of The Invasion type aliens who have taken over all of Newton Haven's residents. 

It's a silly premise, but that's what we expect from the comedy threesome and it works just as well as it's earlier two films. Unlike the others however, World's End has a few surprisingly touching moments, trying to put forward the message of living-for-the-now and not forgetting the important things in life which sometimes only just succeeds in the barrage of gags and geezer antics. The fact that they have included this kind of sentiment, but in particular THIS kind of message is an evident that this is going to be the last instalment of the series.

The only shame is that the excellent supporting cast (Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike and even a very bearded Pierce Brosnan) are often overshadowed by our two usuals, and never really allowed to show what they can really do. All three actors aren't often in comedies and it would have been interesting to really see their full potential in the genre. But this is a small negative from a film that we inevitably, expected to be all about Pegg and Frost anyway.

Simply put, if you enjoyed the two previous Cornetto films, then it is virtually impossible to dislike this one. Quintessentially British in it's humour, the dry jokes work well with the mix of everyday life subject matter of 5 middle-aged men and a lot of pubs, and the slight sci-fi/fantasy angle.