The final part of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright’s
Cornetto trilogy is a fun adventure as five friends reunite all grown up and
try and complete a bar crawl they failed twenty years before. The usual quick editing of Wright is still an
effective comedic tool and a consistent motif in the trilogy. While Pegg
effortlessly sells the one whose life never took off still riding the same car and
wearing the same coat. It is powerful point made on how life is meant to take
off and the feeling of nostalgia for those whose lives never get off the
ground. There is also surprisingly message on commercialization, or
‘starbucking’ as one character puts it as all the pubs become chains and
lacking as much individualism as the robots.It does lack the richness of
characters that it’s predecessors boasted and doesn’t quite equal the thrill
and fun of a zombie picture or a cop actioneer.
The ending remains frustratingly vague and sums up one of
the main gripes; the robot alien plotline is never fleshed out or explained.
The robot element is introduced so late in the story and it is only then you
feel the film kick in. The first 30 minutes are lack any laughs or real jokes
and center on developing pretty stock character types such as the teetotaller,
the enthusiastic one etc.
The Cornetto gang take on the big ideas of sci-fi as opposed
to the chase of zombie films and the big action of action films which is why
there isn’t as much action but more discussing in this instalment though it picks
up pace in the carnage as they foolishly attempt to complete the bar crawl
regardless of the fact the town and potentially the world is slowly being
infested by replicants with evil beaming out of their eyes and blue toothpaste
shooting out of their joints. Though you could argue there is less humour and
more serious emotional moments in the trilogy as it goes on the films are
guaranteed entertainment and it will be shame that the trilogy’s three stars
won’t be collaborating again or anytime soon.
****
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