The Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy marathon review

This review's being written two days after  what I consider one of the best days of my life. Going to the movies for me is always a special day (unless the movie is crap) but on Thursday night, it was a special event that I was attending. 

I won't talk a lot about the films, as they've all been thoroughly reviewed by others, including the new film The World's End. It's already been released before, just not in the U.S.

When I refer to the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy, it refers to the three film collaborations of actors Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and writer/director Edgar Wright, who've all worked together since their 1999 cult show Spaced. 

The first film, Shaun of the Dead, was released in 2004 and can only be described without going into detail as a romantic comedy with zombies, which is the tagline. When this film came out, I was too young to watch it, but I was aware of it and thought of it as one of those films that makes fun of scary movies. After watching it, I consider one of my favorite satires of horror films, especially with its spine tingling opening that uses music from Dawn of the Dead, the same film it's satirizing. At the same time, it's story has laughs and moments of emotion that some films lack.

The second film of the trilogy, Hot Fuzz, was the first I saw as I was old enough to see it. It was released in 2007, but I didn't see it until 2008 when I came across it on T.V. And no, it wasn't the edited version on Comedy Central, it was the R-rated version on a movie channel like HBO. It was my first taste of satire that had to do with cops, and the first real film with violence I had seen. I still hold this film in my heart as it gave me some bonding with my stepsister who thought a line in it was funny (she's unfortunately forgot it and refuses to watch it again). As a film, it adds more action, more jokes and more emotion than Shaun does, except the concept is a satire of buddy cop films and mystery thrillers. 

The last film, The World's End, took me by surprise. All the reviews I've read talk about how this is the most mature film of the trilogy, and honestly it is, but not as mature as I thought in the beginning. The story itself is simple on paper:five friends  reattempting a pub crawl from their youth because one of them can't let go of the past, and then when they return to their hometown, they find that the town's been taken over by alien robots. But after the reveal, it gets more complicated. I don't want to give any spoilers, but this film is the most bleak and heart breaking for me, even with all the laugh out loud moments. It's also a departure from the roles that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play in the previous two. Pegg was always the hero who had to learn a lesson while at the same time keeping Frost's character from goofing around. In this film, Frost is the mature one trying to help out Pegg's character, who in my honest opinion, is a total prick to his friends, but he's one of those pricks you hate and love, and sadly he never learns his lesson by the end of the film, making it all the more for a bummer of an ending. But the ending isn't completely sad, it's still a happy ending, but just not for all the characters. 

Still, I can't remember smiling throughout a movie that I enjoyed as much as these movies. I'll never forget that day and these movies will always be in my heart. I mean, I already own two of them. So to conclude, two down, one to go.