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Video: Simon Pegg at World's End premiere in London

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright have unveiled their new film The World's End at its London premiere.

Edgar Wright invites his drinking buddies to premiere

The director of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's apocalyptic comedy has asked the pub crawl mates who inspired the film to attend its London premiere.

The World's End - first look review

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost bring their trilogy of comedies celebrating British eccentricity to a funny and satisfying conclusion.

The World's End, review

The World's End is a fitting climax to the trilogy Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg started nine years ago.

Pegg, Frost and Wright go out with a bang

There are laugh-out-loud moments as Pegg and his musketeers try to make a stand while totally legless, but it's mostly just wryly amusing.

The World's End review

With a fabulous Madchester-era soundtrack and a strong, believable portrait of male bonding at its core, The World's End turns out to be a hugely entertaining caper. It doesn't live up to the memorable brilliance of Shaun Of The Dead, but it's great fun if you're happy to go along for the ride.

They battled zombies in Shaun of the Dead and fought renegade little Englanders in Hot Fuzz. Now, with their latest film, The World's End, the final instalment in their comic Cornetto Trilogy (so called because the ice creams turn up in each of the films), stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright are facing their toughest challenge yet. We're not going to give much away beyond saying that the film combines the best aspects of the first two movies - the goofy humour, the knockabout violence, the witty observations on English life - and adds a hefty dollop of sci-fi action and an unexpectedly charming, thoughtful air of bittersweet nostalgia.

The World's End Review

Edgar Wright's feverish direction keeps the energy level high, but the script slows to a painful crawl at a crucial stage late in the game, and struggles with the narrative gymnastics required to keep the group from heading for the hills the moment they discover Newton Haven's dark secret.

Simon Pegg talks about The World's End

He discussed the soundtrack that he and Wright have put together for the film, how his writing process with Edgar Wright on The World's End compared to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuz, bringing every actor that appeared in the previous two films back for The World's End, the possibility of a Comic-Con screening, and more.

Following up a cult comedy hit like Shaun Of The Dead was a tough call but co-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright triumph here. Part two in their 'Cornetto trilogy' (Part three, The World's End, is out in August) casts Pegg as an eager-beaver cop whose over-achievement makes him unpopular with colleagues. Shipped off to a sleepy backwater and teamed with a laid-back bozo (Frost), he is surprised to find village life isn't as innocent as it first seems.

A comedy that gets funnier every time you rewatch it, this brilliantly parodies Hollywood studio action buddy-movies such as Bad Boys. We love that its sole raison d' être was allowing Pegg and Frost to live their movie dream of getting to shoot guns in both hands while leaping in slow motion.