![]() ![]() Hot Fuzz is released in UK cinemas on 14th February 2007. It's refreshingly British comedy (it even has a shootout in Somerfield supermarket!) and after watching this, Point Break will never seem the same again. But it's a movie you'll still want to see again, if only to get all the mini-jokes: throwaway little gems like Frost's "Judge Judy and executioner" gag. And yes, it needs trimming, a turgid second half too self-indulgent for its own good. A pair of nerds (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost) help an alien named Paul (Seth. True, it's not nearly as dead-on as instant classic Shaun, its cop movie targets a little too soft, too easy. This is the definitive ranking of the greatest alien-encounter movies as scored. Yet that's just the finale of a movie that's happiest (and funniest) bouncing off British staples like TV detectives, hoodie-wearing yoofs and country ways. They're not kidding - 20 minutes of heavily stylised, slow-mo gun porn sees Nicholas and partner Danny (Nick Frost) - "Crockett and Tubby" - turn the village into a smoking wreck. Keeping the genre-busting humour of Shaun - just without the zombies - Hot Fuzz is described as "a British Shane Black movie". It's supposed to be an easy gig, but pretty soon the city plod's up to his helmet in murder. Pegg stars as top London rozzer Nicholas Angel, transferred to a sleepy Somerset village by his jealous colleagues. Regardless of its obvious tongue in cheek references to action films of the past, co-writer/director Edgar Wright has crafted an engrossing and entertaining film of its own accord, which even surpasses the majority of the films it sends up.Woo, woo it's the sound of the police: straight after bashing the undead in Shaun, Simon Pegg tools up for Hot Fuzz, a criminally funny cop movie parody that plays like Bad Boys II meets Midsomer Murders (and we mean that as a compliment). ![]() However, Hot Fuzz is not some spoof ala National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon. Driving the film is a Lethal Weapon-esque score, accompanied by a hard rock soundtrack. There is a scene which glosses over a stockpile of weapons machismo male bonding rival cops a colossal henchman foot and car chases huge explosions and copious amounts of ammo (even the town priest is packing heat!) and plenty f glorified blood and violence. Hot Fuzz features the obligatory elements needed to make such a satire work. He cameos by Steve Coogan, Martin Freeman, and Bill Nighy are excellent whilst Wright pulls a quick one on all of us by casting Cate Blanchett and Peter Jackson in heavily disguised roles (Blanchett plays Pegg’s ex-girlfriend and Jackson a knife wielding Santa Clause.) Timothy Dalton uses his rogue charm to delirious results, and Jim Broadbent is surprisingly effective in his role. Pegg in particular seems to be channelling Clint Eastwood as the tightly wound cop obsessed with his job. Pegg and Frost are great and compliment each other very well. Hot Fuzz superbly takes the mickey out action and crime films, while also paying homage to the film techniques of Guy Richie and Tony Scott, Michael Bay’s patented melodrama, the theatrics of Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break, and Shane Black’s buddy cop films. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reteam with director Edgar Wright in this wildly entertaining thrill ride that critics call 'sheer comic perfection' (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Starring: Simon Pegg,Nick Frost,Jim Broadbent. However, a vast conspiracy begins to emerge which will test Angel’s abilities as a police officer. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is the finest cop London has to offer, with an arrest. When a number of seemingly accidental deaths irk Angel’s suspicion, he and his newly assigned partner Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) investigate the death’s which leads them to local supermarket owner Simon Skinner (Timothy Dalton). A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a 2012 British horror comedy film starring Simon Pegg, written and directed by Crispian Mills with Chris Hopewell as co-director. This time its the good old Hollywood cop movie that. Simon Pegg stars as Nicholas Angel, the top cop from the streets of London who is considered too exceptional by his superiors (Martin Freeman, Steve Coogan & Bill Nighy) and promptly transferred to the small country town of Sansford.Īlmost immediately, Angel clashes with the towns laid back attitude to the law, as well as his superior officer Chief Inspector Frank Butterman (Jim Broadbent) and the N.W.A. After turning the zombie movie on its head with Shaun Of The Dead, director Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg wrote the script for Hot Fuzz. The creators of Shaun of the Dead do for action what they did for horror in Hot Fuzz, a great satire and ode to the action genre with a dash of The Wicker Man thrown in for good measure.
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