'The World’s End' a charmless exercise

The apocalypse is nigh in 'The World’s End', the concluding chapter of director Edgar Wright and actor Simon Pegg’s so-called 'Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy', which began with the hilarious ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ then stuttered with ‘Hot Fuzz’.

Alas, the third time is a charmless exercise in male bonding, spiked with elements of ‘The Stepford Wives’ as five childhood pals reunite to complete a legendary pub crawl in their sleepy hometown only to discover the locals have been replaced by robots.