Hot Fuzz (Widescreen Edition)
starring Jim Broadbent, Kenneth
Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Julia
Deakin, Patricia Franklin
Fun Movie, Great Blu-Ray
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
Sometimes a satire goes beyond just satire. "Hot Fuzz" makes fun of the
common over the top police buddy films by giving us the usual unlikely
couple taken to extremes. Nicholas Angel is more than "by the book"-- he
lives the book, and his partner Danny is a caricature of the slightly inept,
slightly lazy policeman. The relationship between the two is played for the
usual laughs against a British community that is just a little too perfect and
a little too peaceful.
And then the movie sneaks up on us as the two partners get to genuinely
like one another and we get to genuinely like them, even as the nefarious
plot behind the town's quiet unfolds in a series of gristly murders. So
Nicholas, who is so good at police work he rarely has ever needed to use
guns, and Danny, who has always wanted to use guns but never had the
chance, get to take on a cast of most unlikely villains in a classic shootout
that is both exciting and comical.
"Hot Fuzz" makes homage to its sources, the ultra-violent cop films of the
last twenty years, even as it lampoons them. This is a top-notch film.
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