Apocalypse Clown’s ending provides the perfect twist

Apocalypse Clown is the funniest comedy of the year that you (probably) haven’t seen, but you can rectify that now that it’s on Netflix UK.

The wacky post-apocalypse follows a trio of failed clowns – Bobo (David Earl), Pepe (Fionn Foley) and Funzo (Natalie Palamides) – who think they finally have a chance to delight the masses when a solar event leads to mass electrocution . power outages.

Unfortunately for them, Bobo’s nemesis, the Great Alphonso (Ivan Kaye), senses the same opportunity. Bobo might also be too distracted by reuniting with his girlfriend Jenny (Amy De Bhrún) to take advantage of the apocalypse.

But is an apocalypse really happening? The truth is revealed in a hilarious final twist that ends Apocalypse Clown in a perfect way, so let’s dig into it.

Major spoilers Wait if you haven’t seen the movie yet.

Apocalypse Clown Ending Explained: What Caused the Outages?

It sure looks like an apocalypse has happened when the clowns wake up on the deserted streets after a night in prison following a riot with two vengeful human statues that Funzo has enraged.

At first, the clowns run into a burger van owner, Gustavo, who tells them about a “lightning in the sky” before the power goes out. They pass right by a burning power station, which suggests that something major has happened.

However, there’s still one person broadcasting in the country (possibly even the world): Tim of the former boy band duo BroManz. Alphonso senses his chance and kidnaps Jenny to go see Tim, with whom she has a history, as Tim’s brother died in a freak tank accident on Alphonso’s show in the 90s.

Tim promises Alphonso and Jenny that he knows the truth about what happened, but his transmitter can only reach up to 30 miles. Fortunately, Alphonso’s big top in Alphonso Land is still standing and could be used to broadcast into the country.

Alphonso is not interested in finding out the truth; he just wants to rebroadcast his show. All is going well for Alphonso until Bobo, Pepe and Funzo appear on the big screen and finally manage to control the transmission transmitter away from Alphonso.

After Tim kicks Alphonso into the gunge tank to get revenge for his brother (as Alphonso obviously did), Jenny starts broadcasting to the world… and it’s all bullshit. Tim is a complete conspiracy theorist who blames the event on the CIA’s solar experiments with a teenage Hilary Clinton, with lizard people planning to enslave humanity.

Unsurprisingly, power outages aren’t because of this. As Jenny continues her ridiculous show, everyone’s phones start going off again and the movie cuts to a news report about what really happened.

It was all due to a massive power surge at country singer Garth Brooks’ concert, which resulted in “localized power outages” that likely came from that power plant we see burning earlier in the film.

It wasn’t so much an apocalypse as a mild inconvenience, and it’s a brilliantly stupid final twist that ends Apocalypse Clown the only way it could.

Apocalypse Clown is available to watch now on Netflix UK.

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