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The final installment of the Cornetto Trilogy does not
disappoint. Admittedly I am a huge Simon Pegg fan and I have been since Spaced.
I am looking at this as a separate movie from the previous ones because they
aren’t tied together except for the wonderfully delightful Cornetto cameo in
every movie. So setting down my copy of Nerd Do Well I am going to try and be
as objective as I can. I LOVED IT!!
This movie surrounds the life Gary King (Simon Pegg) who is
stuck in the past trying to hold on to the glory days of his youth. While all
of his friends have moved on in their lives, Gary has not. While in group
therapy he realizes they never got a chance to finish an epic pub crawl known
as The Golden Mile. He gathers his friends together to try and complete what he
failed to do in their youth: a pint in all twelve pubs in one night ending at
the pub known as The Worlds End.
Gary talks his old friends, Andy (Nick Frost), Oliver
(Martin Freeman), Steven (Paddy Considine) and Peter (Eddie Marsan) into going
back to Newton Haven to finally complete The Golden Mile, Going home is hard. Nothing
is ever quite the same, especially as almost everyone you knew has been
replaced with an identical-looking robot.
By the by on our trip to London we were actually in the town
of Welwyn Garden City where they shot this film. We did not know it at the time
but once the group got back to their home town my wife recognized it immediately.
I said all small London suburbs look the same. She was right. POINT wife.
Edgar Write co-wrote this with Simon Pegg and he does an
excellent job of mixing in emotional connections with the characters and humor at
the absurdity of the fact they have to fight killer robots. You can pick out
people in your life from the types of characters they are portraying. They are
so identifiable you have the person who is pining for a love they passed up, or
the over-achiever or the Bluetooth guy. Everyone has one friend who is still trapped
in the high school glory days. If your circle of friends doesn't have one, then
it might be you.
Edgar Write makes a well-balanced film, the action scenes
are spot on. It has the pace of an Asian action movie with sci-fi elements and
a great mixture of humor and seriousness. The fights have attack and counter-attack
pacing that is on par with a few Jackie Chan fight scenes but no death-defying
feats. Plus, it gets quite bloody, but
not bloody as the robots all use a blue coolant-like substance for blood.
This level of work is nothing new to writer and crew. It’s like
his previous work, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. The truly good story-telling is
when you allow the audience to feel for the characters. Through the story we
learn more and more about Gary King and realize how lost in his youth he is.
Another good thing about this crew is they can be used as an
example for movie studios, if you have a good cast and crew and you want to do
another movie please don’t do a sequel just to do a sequel. Here is a perfect
example of working with people you like but doing a different movie every time.
I could watch more from this group of performers. Ok, so fine! I am letting my fanboy
self write this review. So what? I love this film, so sue me.
If you excuse me I am going to go re-watch Spaced and plan
my movie marathon when this comes out on
DVD. I wonder if I could order
Cornettos from London to Denver.
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