Hot Fuzz (Widescreen Edition)

Hot Fuzz (Widescreen Edition)

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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/27/2009 Run time: 121 minutes Rating: R

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In Shaun of the Dead, it was the zombie movie and the anomie of modern life. In Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg set their sights on the buddy cop blockbuster and the eccentric English village. The two worlds collide when overachieving London officer Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is promoted to sergeant. The catch is that hes being transferred to Agatha Christie country. His superiors (the comic trifecta of Martin Campbell, Steve Coogan, and Bill Nighy) explain that hes making the rest of the force look bad. On the surface, Sandford is a sleepy little burg where the most egregious crimes, like loitering, are committed by hoody-sporting schoolboys. In truth, its a hotbed of Willow Man-style evil. Upon his arrival, Chief Butterman (Jim Broadbent) partners Angel with his daft son, Danny (Nick Frost, Peggs Shaun co-star), who aspires to kick criminal "arse" like the slick duo in Bad Boys II. When random citizens start turning up dead, he gets his chance. With the worshipful Danny at his side, Angel shows his cake-eating colleagues how things are done in the big city. As in Shaun, their previous picture, Wright and Pegg hit their targets more often than not. With the success of that debut comes a bigger budget for car chases, shoot-outs, and fiery explosions. Though Hot Fuzz earns its R-rating with salty language and grisly deaths, the tone is more good-natured than mean-spirited. A wall-to-wall soundtrack of boisterous British favorites, like the Kinks, T-Rex, and Sweet, contributes to the fast-paced fun. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Rate Points :4.0
Binding :DVD
Brand :Universal
Label :Universal Studios
Manufacturer :Universal Studios
MPN :MCAD62033218D
ProductGroup :DVD
Studio :Universal Studios
Publisher :Universal Studios
UPC :025193321824
EAN :0025193321824
Price :$14.98USD
Lowest Price :$6.31USD
Customer ReviewsHot Fuzz
Rating Point :3 Helpful Point :0
For people who enjoy the Englis type of humor. Was a little hard to get
into the beginning of it. But I think well worth it.

Good movie? Its a fair cop...
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
Hot Fuzz After Shaun of the Dead, the writer/director/actor trio of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost came up with this new comedy that does for cop movies what Shaun did for zombie flicks. As before Wright directs a script written by himself and Pegg, and Pegg and Frost star. Pegg plays Nick Angel, a London cop so dedicated and efficient he starts to skew the statistics away from his less motivated colleagues. He soon finds himself transferred to Sandford, a tiny little rural village on the books with the lowest crime rate in England. Angel is understandably miffed by this, especially when partnered with the local police chiefs son (Frost), whos a likable lunkhead. Shortly after his arrival, though, gruesome deaths start occurring. Angel is sure its murder, but everyone else in town thinks the deaths are accidental. Angel becomes determined to solve the crimes no matter how many toes he must step on. This very funny movie manages to walk a very fine line: it spoofs American action movies hilariously but never stops being British. It does, however, come by its R rating very honestly, with rampant profanity and some very gory murders. The violence is as over the top as it was in Shaun of the Dead, but with that same matter of fact/deadpan tone that pushes it past icky into icky-but-funny. (kind of like the gore in a Monty Python movie) And what a cast the boys have in support this time: Timothy Dalton (2 time 007), Edward Woodward (The Wicker Man-1973), a couple of unidentifiable but hilarious celebrity cameos, and briefly, Martin Freeman (The Office-British version). If you enjoy English humor or thought Shaun of the Dead was fun, definitely check this one out.

Hysterical
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1
Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg demonstrate brilliantly how to use cliches to create intelligent and hysterical comedy. Pegg and Frost are of course great on screen together there are layers upon layers of reference, visual and verbal. Especially for those who grew up watching crime dramas and detective movies, you will experience a strange and wonderful sense of deja vu.

We LOVED it!! Hilarious send-up of cop movie genre!!
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :2
When we watched Hot Fuzz, we laughed our patooties off!

The movie tells the story of police officer Nicholas Angel, a top cop in London. Because hes received so many commendations and made so many arrests (400% more than any other officer in London), hes making his co-workers (and supervisors) look bad. To get rid of him, management has him transferred to the sleepy little village of Sandford. There, he gets stuck with an inexperienced partner (who happens to be the son of the police inspector) and finds difficulty making the transition from lean, mean, policing machine to do-nothing keeper of a town where very little crime is ever committed.

But then, odd things begin to happen. A philandering couple is found beheaded on a local highway. A man is blown up after a gas leak in his house. A reporter from the towns newspaper is killed by a piece of falling stone from an old church roof. Local authorities insist that all of these deaths are just accidents, but Nicholas begins to think theres more to it than that.

For the rest of the movie, Nicholas and his bumbling partner try to unearth the thread that links all the murders. The truth behind the rash of deaths is comic gold.

This movie is a hilarious send-up of the cop genre, but its also a decent action flick in its own right. Pegg is marvelous as the orderly, buttoned-up Nicholas, and Nick Frost holds down his side of the script as the naive Danny Butterman (Nicks partner). There were knee-slapping lines and situations throughout, with character-driven comedy playing just as large a role as all the funny plot-driven stuff.

You will recognize several other cast members as well: Bill Nighy as the Met Chief Inspector, Jim Broadbent as Inspector Frank Butterman, Timothy Dalton as Simon Skinner, even a tiny role by Cate Blanchett, who plays Nicholas former girlfriend.

If youre in need of a laugh, I highly recommend this movie! We loved it!

Top Truncheon
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are superb in this cracking little British comedy. Nick Angel (Pegg) is the London supercop who is so good hes making all his colleagues look fools, and so is shunted off to the sticks and utter boredom - or so it seems. Danny (Frost) is his hapless partner and bane, short on experience but big in enthusiasm.

Angel becomes suspicious as the accident mortality rate in the village begins to rise, only to be held back by the cluelessness of his colleagues and bizarreness of the locals.

The support cast is allstar, if youre British, and must have been a directors dream. At times the film almost had a Wallace and Gromit feel to it, and you can tell it was made with with a lot of affection. Jim Broadbent must be fast approaching the national treasure level, as Sgt. Frank Butterman, stalwart of the Police station and village.

Truly funny in places and very watchable on the whole, it builds to an over-the-top finale that gets away with it precisely because the characters are so likeable. One of my faves.

Yours,

Baby Cromwell

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