{{Khatam}} Watch The World's End Online Free Enjoy Streaming in HD pub crawl that I never did anything with. It was way later, after Hot Fuzz, that I thought there might be something in the idea of trying to recreate that night. What the film is about -- and what all the movies we've done are sort of about -- is the perpetual adolescent figure and in the third one, we wanted to deal with the dangers of not growing up. The thing with the arrested adolescent is that age gets older and older. It used to be 30 is the new 20 and now 40 is the new 30 and it's like, when does that stop?

The idea of the movie is, you've got five friends, four of them are grown-ups and one, Gary, who wants to be 18 again. And in a way, if there's any time travel aspect to the movie, it's that alcohol is the time machine -- it's the thing that's going to make you more juvenile. He's getting his friends drunk so they can all be teenagers again.

Wright and Simon Pegg on Their Sci-Fi Influences
Wright: I used to watch a lot of sci-fi on British TV as a kid before I even knew what the word genre met. Not only Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but Village of the Damned, Invaders from Mars, Quatermass, Doctor Who, The Prisoner. Also in the UK there was a whole bunch of Hammer films that ripped off Quatermass like X the Unknown and The Earth Died Screaming. One of the things we wanted to tap into in The World's End was the sci-fi movies we watched as kids. And the whole alien invasion aspect to the movie is almost like a coping mechanism. Both Simon and I are from small towns and we've experienced that bittersweet feeling of returning home and finding that your hometown has changed without you. So the sci-fi element of the movie is an amplification of that feeling.

Pegg: We didn't want this film to be a comment on science fiction cinema in any way. We wanted to use science fiction as the genre trope to get our point across. It seemed like the obvious thing when your story is about the alienation you feel when you return to your hometown. We simply took the word alienation to its literal conclusion. We didn't watch many sci-fi films before making this. We watched It's Always Fair Weather, a Gene Kelly musical about three guys reuniting after the war and finding they have nothing in common, and we watched The Big Chill, because we thought it would be funny to make a film like The Big Chill but where the corpse came along to the party. So Gary is basically Kevin Costner. [Laughs] But sci-fi is always a great metaphor, because it's using the non-real to describe the real. That's where I think sci-fi to some degree has lost its way in the last 30 years or so, because it's become more about the spectacle and not the poetry of it. Science fiction has always been a great way of looking at our futures or our relationships with technology or each other or outer space or God or whatever.