Full disclosure...I have not seen "Shaun of the Dead" or "Hot Fuzz", so I have nothing to compare "The World's End" to. Since I am unfamiliar with the "Cornetto Trilogy", there's no real frame of reference for me. I can only judge this on its face. And that face is homely.

To level set, I have nothing against British humor. I've loved Monty Python. I enjoy "Sherlock". I get a kick out of "Top Gear". But this movie, the only thing about it that's redeeming is it sort of explores the sadness that getting wrapped up in nostalgia can bring about. As I get older, I grow frustrated with modern "culture" and its inability to appreciate the things that I loved when I was younger. Sometimes I have to fight my own impulse to scream "get off my lawn!", metaphorically, of course, to those who have no appreciation for the Movies, TV and Books that I cherish to this day. Simon Pegg's character Gary King suffers this as well, only to a far greater degree. As I and countless others have moved on, Gary is stuck romanticizing the life he had as a young adult. It's really sad. You can see it all around us, Facebook, Classmates.com...people frozen in time, longing for the Good Ol' Days. Which unless you have total recall, likely were not that good anyway.

Unfortunately, this fondness for days gone by has suspended Gary as the same jerk he was years ago. This makes him impossible to like for both his past "friends", or more accurately hangers-on, and for me, the viewer. I also found his buddies to be pathetic as they were so easily manipulated.

Then to add insult to injury, the alien menace is uninteresting and not threatening in the least. Apparently, everyone of Gary's crew is an expert in martial arts, or maybe this is where I am missing the joke laid out in the previous two entries of the Cornetto Trilogy. "The World's End" isn't very funny, either. It's hard to laugh when something is trying so hard to be clever.