This post will be spoiler filled so if you haven't seen The World's End I'd suggest doing so now. I wouldn't want to spoil the awesomeness.
Now onto the main show:
As I said in my written review of the film (don't worry, the vlog with revrezner has been filmed and will be edited and released on the interwebs), the ending is both hilarious and sad at the same time.
It is hilarious because Gary King refuses to consider The Network's offer. He does his gag of never admitting that he's wrong. The funniest part of that scene, at least for me, is The Network giving up arguing with King and agreeing to leave. As The Network leaves it whispers, "Fuck it."
Looking at the conversation between Andy, King, and The Network brings up some good points in humanity's favor. Even though King is an idiot because he never admits he's wrong, the fact is that I found myself agreeing with his point that humanity should be free. King says it because he's shitfaced and he won't let an argument go. But, really, the only way humanity can thrive is if it is free.
If the world is going to be peaceful it should be because humans made it that way and not because some outside force made it so. This is why I think Stephenie Meyer failed in The Host by making the invading aliens into saints.
Humanity will probably never achieve world peace (all the sexist, racist, transphobic, ect. people out there that don't even seem to realize what they are outnumber the sane people), but I would never bow down to alien overlords that seek to manipulate and force the world into peace.
It's even brought up that The Network hasn't been able to achieve peace without the methods shown in The World's End.
So I'm glad that King argued so fiercely for humanity's freedom, even if it wasn't his real intention to do so.
After The Network leaves Earth, the world ends. Every technological thing seems to go away. In the NBC show Revolution the electronics don't work because of nanites, but The Network just stopped humanity's technology in a bid to stop humans from causing problems for the rest of the universe.
When the world has ended, Andy gets back with his wife. Sam and Peter get it on. And King...doesn't change at all. Well, he drinks water now but that might just be because that's how the world is now.
I find the outcome for King to be the most heartbreaking. Over the course of the movie you learn that King has cut and was trying to use the pub crawl as a way to get what he couldn't in his youth. I've heard people bring up the theory that if the pub crawl went the way he wanted, that he would have committed suicide.
So King does succeed in getting to The World's End (but doesn't get to drink that final pint) and lives his fantasy of being in his youth. He takes the Blanks of his friends as they were when they were younger and goes to different pubs.
Why I consider this heartbreaking is that King is shown to be unable to grow and develop. He will be the same person to the day that he dies. While you should keep yourself young at heart, you also have to realize that sometimes growth is good. It might not be easy, but it will be for the best.
On one hand I'm glad that King is now happy (even if the world has ended), but also sad that he'll never grow or develop.
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