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Dungeater posted...

i have to wonder if this movie is like, at the audiences expense. like it almost seems like he's taking the piss out of the viewer. like in a "heres your slop you disgusting savages" way

Pegg, Frost, and Wright have a flair for parodies with hostage-to-nostalgia characters.

Shaun of the Dead: A working-stiff against a zombie outbreak
Hot Fuzz: An over-achiever against a deeply-entrenched village cult
The World's End: An under-achiever against a space-alien invasion
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This line from a review for The World's End could be used to describe each movie in the "[Three Flavours] Cornetto" trilogy:

"Fears of assimilation and domestication and the loss of youthful fire are never far from the movie's mind; neither is the altogether wise and reasonable sense that, while we should strive to be better, kinder, more mature people, we still are who we are, and if we cannot tolerate one another's frailties and treat each other decently, there's no hope for the species. The film has great fun painting modern life itself as a prolonged and largely invisible conspiracy to rob people and their world of all personality."

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-worlds-end-2013