What made you want to become a Policeman Officer?
The amount of films I’ve seen in the last few months has increased about 400%, but none of them were as original, cleverly funny or just plain awesome as Hot Fuzz.
It struck me as a mix between Shaun of the Dead (made by the same people), Transporter and Midsommer Murders, where Nick Angel, a skilled by-the-books Metropolitan Police Officer (Simon Pegg) makes his department look rather half-baked, so is relocated to a sleepy countryside village where he joins oafish PC Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), fighting what little crime takes place, until some strange (and enjoyable imaginative) deaths take place.
Right from the off there was one-liner after one-liner, and not one fell flat. The comic genius of Pegg, Frost and Edgar Wright shone throughout, and the brilliant climax was full of blatantly entertaining action. A lot of the humour comes from Pegg and Frost’s mismatched team and Cop Movie traditions set in the thoroughly british village, and there is fun to be had spotting all the pop-culture references (a lot of which are from SOTD). The best bits concern the local Neighbourhood Watch, which consists of the usual fuddy-duddy oldies - all of which have a psychopathic bent for surprising reasons - when Pegg asks why a hilariously untalented thespian had to be murdered, he is met with “Well, HE murdered Bill Shakespeare”. Besides that, the trigger-happy climax wouldn’t look out of place in the best Hollywood blockbusters.
I give it 5 Japanese Peace Lillies out of 5.
Freaking awesome, and the review wasn’t bad either.
Abs xxx