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Hot Fuzz (Ultimate Edition) [Blu-ray]
 
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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 he's being transferred to Agatha Christie country. His superiors (the comic trifecta of Martin Campbell, Steve Coogan, and Bill Nighy) explain that he's 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, it's a hotbed of Willow Man-style evil. Upon his arrival, Chief Butterman (Jim Broadbent) partners Angel with his daft son, Danny (Nick Frost, Pegg's 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

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HILARIOUS.
 
Review Date: February 12, 2010
Reviewer: C.Maria, Seattle, WA
I love this movie. It is a fun, funny, and easygoing movie that's a satire of both comedy and horror flicks. Hoity-toity movie critics will probably find it less than adequate in all the typical movie quality categories. But if you just want to have a good laugh from a movie that pokes fun at small town life across the pond, you will certainly enjoy this one. Totally worth the $5 plus shipping I paid for it. Make sure you get the correct Region Code for your purchase of this fine British export.
Buddy Film on Steroids
 
Review Date: February 5, 2010
Reviewer: Rick Twain,
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.
very funny!
 
Review Date: February 2, 2010
Reviewer: freethinker,
The two British movies I know of featuring Simon Pegg ("Hot Fuzz" and "Shaun of the Dead") are both hilarious! In this one, Pegg plays the straight man in the midst of utter pandemonium.

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