Rent Hot Fuzz (2007)

hot fuzz - Hot Fuzz review by CP Customer

a good film but a bit boring i thought it would be funnier i got bored watchin half way through .

Every cop movie cliché in the book - great fun :) - Hot Fuzz review by RP

This is the second film in an unofficial trilogy - the others are 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'The World's End'. Having recently seen 'The World's End' and found it very disappointing, not to mention unfunny, I thought I'd watch 'Hot Fuzz' to see if it was as amusing as I remembered it - and it is.

You know the storyline - straitlaced supercop Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is offloaded to rural Sandford in the middle of nowhere, where he teams up with bumbling PC Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) and uncovers a bunch of demented village serial killers.

Ridiculous of course, but great fun. It is of course silly - and much of its humour derives from just that, together with every cop movie cliché in the book, not to mention some satisfyingly gory bits. Great stuff!

Look out for a raft of British acting talent in minor roles - Olivia Colman as a very non-PC PC, Paddy Considine, Billie Whitelaw, even Bill Nighy and Steve Coogan - and a few well-known actors in bigger roles including Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, Edward Woodward. Everybody gets a look-in - even a heavily disguised Cate Blanchett gets a part...

'The World's End' failed for me because Simon Pegg's on-screen character was unlikeable with few if any redeeming features. Here, you can laugh at him and eventually with him as his character begins to loosen up. Made me laugh anyway - which is more than I can say of 'The World's End'

Great stuff - I'd probably give it 4/5 stars, but as I find it even funnier than 'Shaun of the Dead' I'll give it an over-generous 5/5.

Intermittently funny - Hot Fuzz review by Pete W

Despite a fine cast of British character actors, I'm afraid I found this tedious and rather unfunny. A grave disappointment after Shaun of the Dead.

Quintessentially British comedy - Hot Fuzz review by AB

Amusing without being hilarious, with dry observations and personal interactions to the fore.

Well worth a watch but the end-game does go a bit OTT!

No Excuses. - Hot Fuzz review by Steve

Bleeding obvious culture shock comedy in which Simon Pegg plays a tough city cop (see, it's already not working) sent to a rural village in order to stop annoying everyone, and to be teamed up with slowpoke yokel Nick Frost. What follows is at the level of obviousness suggestive of late period French and Saunders, with a slow motion gunfight a key nadir. Two bloody hours long!

Brilliant British Comedy - Hot Fuzz review by GI

Director Edgar Wright and lead actor Simon Peggs follow up to their popular Shaun Of The Dead (2004). It's a zany, and gets more zanier as it goes on, British comedy that brilliantly homages cop action films (many are referenced directly in the film) and more cleverly and very effectively highlights and mocks the middle class smugness of rural 'Little' England and the habit of constantly hanging onto the past as somehow better than today. This especially resonates today following the Brexit debacle that promised some idea of a return to a traditional England of old. Overall though this is a great comedy film and there's so many little references and in jokes that every viewing reveals something you've not noticed before. Pegg plays ubër keen London police officer Nicholas Angel. His arrest rate is so good it makes his colleagues look bad so he is transferred to the quiet, rural town of Sandford where life is much more laid back. He is constantly frustrated by his apparently lazy new colleagues and when a series of grisly accidents occur Angel is convinced they are murders much to the amusement of the other officers. There's a fantastic support cast who are all brilliant and include Olivia Colman, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, Nick Frost, Billie Whitelaw (in her last film), Paddy Considine and Rafe Spall. There's also cameos from Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy and sharp eyed viewers may spot Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett. Maybe this is for a certain sense of humour but it's comedy that has its roots in British classics such as Monty Python, Fawlty Towers so fig that's your thing then this will not disappoint.