Muhammad Ali, Olivia Williams, Simon Pegg and Ip Man Make Our Weekly Movie Trailer Mashup [Video]

Drinking Buddies at The World's End mix it up in The City of Bones

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When geeky sitcom Spaced debuted in the UK towards the end of the last century, you would have struggled to imagine that 10 years later, its star would one day end up as Scotty off the Enterprise. But so evidently was the show a hive mind operation you might have made a bet Simon Pegg would be working with the same people in some capacity. And you would have been right. Possibly Edgar Wright, in fact, who directed the series and followed up with George Romero love letter Sean of the Dead, Bad Boys love letter Hot Fuzz, and now The World's End which, on the evidence of the trailer, is at the very least a mash note to Invasion of the Bodysnatchers: Familiar pratfalls, a Potter movie's worth of Brit luvvies (Hello Rosamund Pike, Paddy Considine…) and that corny wordplay only Simon Pegg can deliver without making you wince....

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