After waking up at 6:30am to work an early shift, sitting through over 4 hours of the other two excellent films, I was beginning to feel a little over-tired. My eyelids were a bit droopy, and my seat was beginning to feel a little bit TOO comfortable. "That's okay!" I said. "Let's get some soda and snacks before the final film."

The Cornetto Trilogy has been a staple of the cinema hound for a long time, and tonight, it would be capped off with The World's End. With caffeine and wonderfully fluffy pretzel-bites in our tummies, my wife and I settled in for the final chapter of this great series.

And boy oh boy, what a final chapter it is. Take the heart and soul of Shaun of the Dead, the outstandingly paced action and mystery of Hot Fuzz, and sprinkle it with a heaping spoonful of biting comedy, and you'll get The World's End.

Gary King (Pegg) has never moved passed his teenage years. Once the rebellious “cool kid” who would flip off the teachers in school, take advantage of a fake ID, and take girls into handicapped bathroom stalls to have sex with them, Gary has always remembered (with fondness) the final trek him and his best friends took through their home town on the Golden Mile: a twelve-pub crawl to all the hot bars in town. To Gary, it was literally the best night of his life. And while all his friends moved on, got married, got jobs, and had kids, Gary is still driving his car from high school, listening to his high school mix tapes, and living in a cruddy one room apartment.

But Gary has an idea. He wants to get the whole gang back together and relive his best night ever. He wants to trek the Golden Mile. All of his friends are hesitant, but the one man who was once his best friend, Andy Knightly (Frost) was at his wits end with Gary years ago after an accident that everyone knows about, but no one wants to talk about. They haven’t spoken since.

While the loose "trilogy" is only related thematically (in the end they’re all really about conformity, arrested development, and becoming an adult), the relationship the audience has formed with the great Nick Frost and Simon Pegg over the last two films helps inform the relationship of the characters in The World's End. When you find out very early on that the two are estranged and at ends with each other, your past experience with them really drives it home.

This is a dark film, one with life experience behind it and with characters that have history and pathos. It makes the humor all the more rich, because there's a certain camaraderie that really takes it all to another level. All these actors love spending time together, and it comes out wonderfully on screen.

The film is further enhanced by the fact that they just continue to get more and more fucked up as the film moves forward. This is probably one of the best films about beer ever, and you certainly would do well to grab a pint before, during, or after the film.

By the time the film was over, and the audience stumbled out of the theater, I got the feeling that we were all a little drunk on the film. It certainly didn't help that we had just spent a quarter of the day in a dark room watching three of the best comedies of all time.

The World’s End is an outstanding piece of work. It’s a master-class of editing, comedy, drama, and writing. All people involved have done what, I think, is their best work yet. Simon Pegg takes it to a whole other level, layering years of regret, pain, and selfishness into a real sad, bastard of a man. What really makes his character work, however, is the fact that we ALL know a Gary King. And if you don’t… well then, you might just be Gary King.