MOVIE REVIEW – World’s End

Posted on 16 September 2013

MOVIE REVIEW

World’s End”

by Doug Young

World's End

Old red eyes is back

The World’s End

Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike; directed by
Edgar Wright
From The World’s Endbrewery comes a selection of filmic brews that are sure to tantalize the retina. Like beer, movies may all contain the same basic ingredients, but what sets them apart is how those elements are flavored and fermented. You may have consumed products like The World’s End before, but not the unique way it crafts its various brands. Below are just three examples of The World’s End’s output. Have a visual drink, and you’ll agree that The World’s End is, well, the world’s end! Bottom’s up! 
At first glance, Strongwiser seems like a typical lager: It contains five school chums from England — now middle aged — who return to their school town to retrace their aborted formulaic attempt to down a brewski at 13 pubs all in one night along a route that ends at a pub called World’s End. As they are now aged ingredients, they are reluctant to engage in this youthful debauchery, except the one character ingredient that never seemed to age to maturity and cajoles the other four to take a break from their respectable lives to join in the effort. 
The chemistry between all five ingredients is a bit strained at first, but they begin to blend as old times are recalled and bitter animosities and indiscretions come to the surface and are mellowed through reconciliation. But then a distinct aftertaste emerges as the bottle is consumed during the running time. We discover the bold superhero strength aroma these five lads possess!  Amazingly,they can overpower all other elements in the mix. This surprising flavor turns this lager from a sedate, pedantic texture into a standard, pale lager that makes it hard toswallow and reduces any heft and tensionpresented by the dangers these five ingredi ents encounter during their night of head-

long hedonism. 

 

 

This ale contains a secret ingredient that affects the entire range of its flavor and essence. This being summertime, ales can provide a refreshing yet mindless diversion from more serious, heavy cinematic offerings. So, it’s only natural that The World’s End would manufac ture this special Dystopia Ale. But instead of other summery ales of its type, this particular ale is seasoned with lighthearted dystopian colorings that suggest more hoppy hopefulness for the future of mankind. That comes from the secret ingredient. Not much can be divulged about this secret ingredient as it is proprietary. Suffice it to say that strange byproducts emerge from this formula and thereby affect every other element in the vat of their former school town as they partake in pints along the 13-pub crawl — byproducts that present serious foamy dangers and are not, unfortunately, simply apparitions from a drunken haze. These five character ingredients stumble upon a plot produced by this secret ingredient that supplants their respective flavors with its own and thereby risks pervading the whole world batch, which only these five ingredients can stop or hasten. That they are able — incredibly — to d both at the same time is the special secret of this ale that leaves one with a hangover and boggles the mind.

 

 

The beige, amber hue of this pilsner says it all: We humans may be flawed and irrational, but we like it that way! Human-brau will remind you of those other, previous cinematic brews that stand for the proposi- tion that our special human psychological

concoction can be just what we need to
overcome more sophisti-
cated and advanced —
even foreign or other-
worldly — ingredi-
ents. The power of
Humanbrau lies in
its natural,
unadulterated
purity. Sure
there may be
other, more
sophisticated
elixirs that can
relive all of our
unwelcome side-
effects (like
conflicting flavor addi-
tives, warlike admixtures
and bitterness). But would we
really want that? Take a big swig of Human-
brau and remember that it’s made by
humans, for humans, and should be
consumed with humans. It’s important to
drink this pilsner with friends who, although
they might piss you off sometimes, are still
better than the mindless alternative that
may offer immediate tasty inebriation, but is
not made with any genuine care or ingredi-
ents. The world may come to an end, but if
it’s an end we choose, we say drink up, and
make a toast to Humanbrau! Cheers!

Unfortunately we can’t describe Doug Young adequately in strictly iambic
pentameter, so we’ll just tell you that he is an award-winning (and poetic) film critic and that he is “Filmoholic” Critic Man, aka Doug Young, who is a senior environmental policy advisor to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, his reviews canbe found regularly on Pop Geek Heaven.

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