Hot Fuzz is a British comedy movie that was released in Britain on 16th February (US, 13th April) co-written by and starring the guy who gave us Shaun of the Dead (Simon Pegg) - a zomby comedy horror - in 2004.
Pegg's 2004 movie Shaun of the Dead jokingly poked fun at Hollywood horror movies.
Hot Fuzz now does the same with Hollywood action movies......
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British police action/comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, known for Shaun of the Dead and Spaced. It is directed by Edgar Wright and produced by Nira Park.
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is the finest police officer London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He’s so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel’s superiors send him to a place where his talents won’t be quite so embarrassing -- the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford - where there hasn't been a recorded murder for twenty years.
Once there, he is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman (Nick Frost). The son of amiable Police Chief Frank Butterman (Jim Broadbent), Danny is a huge action movie fan and believes his new big-city partner might just be a real-life "bad boy," and his chance to experience the life of gunfights and car chases he so longs for. Angel is quick to dismiss this as childish fantasy and Danny’s puppy-like enthusiasm only adds to Angel’s growing frustration.
However, as a series of grisly "accidents" rocks the village, Angel is convinced that Sandford is not what it seems and the intrigue deepens. It appears that the Neighbourhood Watch Association, intent on keeping Sandford's title of Village of the Year, have been murdering anyone who lessens the character of the village, including gypsy travellers, mime artists and underage drinkers, claiming that it is for the "greater good."
Hot Fuzz (2007) - Nick Frost, Simon Pegg
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London boy Angel is more used to fighting criminals than chasing missing swans as he has to do when he is sent to Sandford
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A comic shoot-out take splace in the village's Somerfield supermarket
wikipedia.org
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/
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HOT FUZZ: QUINTISENTIALLY BRITISH HUMOUR POKING FUN AT AMERICAN ACTION MOVIES
Actor Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright are fast becoming a powerhouse combination in British film comedy. Building on the success of their zombie-movie spoof Shaun of the Dead (2004), they have reunited as writing partners to parody another film genre.
Cop and plodder: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Hot Fuzz
This time, it's loud, pulsating, all-action American cop buddy movies that get worked over - but Pegg and Wright's cops are British bobbies, and the mayhem takes place in a sleepy West Country village. Even in a week when gun crime on British streets is no laughing matter, the amiable daftness of Hot Fuzz wins through.
Pegg stars as Nick Angel, a square-jawed, humourless, workaholic London cop with a formidable arrest record. His Met superiors ship him out of town because he makes them look slack; but on arriving in the fictional village of Sandford, he finds colleagues who are almost heroically apathetic.
Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), who Angel swiftly establishes as the village drunk, turns out to be his new partner. The CID team, both named Andy (Paddy Considine, Rafe Spall), shrug off the mounting toll of grisly murders in Sandford with the observation that accidents happen.
The premise, then, is Angel as a fish-out-of-water, a stony-faced, disciplinarian outsider thrown into a community so laid-back as to be virtually prostrate.
A crop of veteran Brit actors play the village elders: Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Edward Woodward, Anne Reid, and most notably Jim Broadbent as the police inspector and Timothy Dalton, splendid as a villainous supermarket manager who literally twirls his moustache.
In a nod to the absurdly solemn movies to which it pays homage, such as the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard series, the plot of Hot Fuzz is labyrinthine, overdramatic and not remotely logical: let's just say the village elders harbour a sinister secret between them.
But that's secondary to the main fun, which resides in a series of running gags about the village - their repetition is calculated to wear down audience resistance. In no particular order, these gags concern a missing swan, a model village, Black Forest gateau, incomprehensible rustics, a living statue, and a best-kept village competition.
A comic shoot-out in the local branch of Somerfield, with shattered jars of Dolmio sauces in the aisles enhancing the gory effects, rounds off a tongue-in-cheek, quintessentially British take on a straight-faced American genre.
Yet the film has other charms. It's predictable that Angel will finally loosen up; and when Pegg finally breaks into a smile, almost an hour in, it's as if sunshine had broken through clouds.
It's the shambolic, rotund Danny who works his buddy magic on Angel; there's a lovely sequence with the two partners staying in one evening to watch action videos - not just the critically acclaimed Point Break, but also the duff Bad Boys II.
Hot Fuzz has its problems. It's overlong, and finally falls apart, stuttering towards a number of indecisive endings. But mostly it's a smart, funny, affectionate love letter to all things uncool - and far more skilful than its self-effacing humour suggests.
telegraph.co.uk
Pegg's 2004 movie Shaun of the Dead jokingly poked fun at Hollywood horror movies.
Hot Fuzz now does the same with Hollywood action movies......
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British police action/comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, known for Shaun of the Dead and Spaced. It is directed by Edgar Wright and produced by Nira Park.
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is the finest police officer London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He’s so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel’s superiors send him to a place where his talents won’t be quite so embarrassing -- the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford - where there hasn't been a recorded murder for twenty years.
Once there, he is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman (Nick Frost). The son of amiable Police Chief Frank Butterman (Jim Broadbent), Danny is a huge action movie fan and believes his new big-city partner might just be a real-life "bad boy," and his chance to experience the life of gunfights and car chases he so longs for. Angel is quick to dismiss this as childish fantasy and Danny’s puppy-like enthusiasm only adds to Angel’s growing frustration.
However, as a series of grisly "accidents" rocks the village, Angel is convinced that Sandford is not what it seems and the intrigue deepens. It appears that the Neighbourhood Watch Association, intent on keeping Sandford's title of Village of the Year, have been murdering anyone who lessens the character of the village, including gypsy travellers, mime artists and underage drinkers, claiming that it is for the "greater good."
Hot Fuzz (2007) - Nick Frost, Simon Pegg
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Hot Fuzz (2007) - Simon Pegg--------------------------------
Hot Fuzz (2007) - Nick Frost, Simon Pegg
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London boy Angel is more used to fighting criminals than chasing missing swans as he has to do when he is sent to Sandford
-------------------------
A comic shoot-out take splace in the village's Somerfield supermarket
wikipedia.org
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/
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HOT FUZZ: QUINTISENTIALLY BRITISH HUMOUR POKING FUN AT AMERICAN ACTION MOVIES
Actor Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright are fast becoming a powerhouse combination in British film comedy. Building on the success of their zombie-movie spoof Shaun of the Dead (2004), they have reunited as writing partners to parody another film genre.
Cop and plodder: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Hot Fuzz
This time, it's loud, pulsating, all-action American cop buddy movies that get worked over - but Pegg and Wright's cops are British bobbies, and the mayhem takes place in a sleepy West Country village. Even in a week when gun crime on British streets is no laughing matter, the amiable daftness of Hot Fuzz wins through.
Pegg stars as Nick Angel, a square-jawed, humourless, workaholic London cop with a formidable arrest record. His Met superiors ship him out of town because he makes them look slack; but on arriving in the fictional village of Sandford, he finds colleagues who are almost heroically apathetic.
Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), who Angel swiftly establishes as the village drunk, turns out to be his new partner. The CID team, both named Andy (Paddy Considine, Rafe Spall), shrug off the mounting toll of grisly murders in Sandford with the observation that accidents happen.
The premise, then, is Angel as a fish-out-of-water, a stony-faced, disciplinarian outsider thrown into a community so laid-back as to be virtually prostrate.
A crop of veteran Brit actors play the village elders: Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Edward Woodward, Anne Reid, and most notably Jim Broadbent as the police inspector and Timothy Dalton, splendid as a villainous supermarket manager who literally twirls his moustache.
In a nod to the absurdly solemn movies to which it pays homage, such as the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard series, the plot of Hot Fuzz is labyrinthine, overdramatic and not remotely logical: let's just say the village elders harbour a sinister secret between them.
But that's secondary to the main fun, which resides in a series of running gags about the village - their repetition is calculated to wear down audience resistance. In no particular order, these gags concern a missing swan, a model village, Black Forest gateau, incomprehensible rustics, a living statue, and a best-kept village competition.
A comic shoot-out in the local branch of Somerfield, with shattered jars of Dolmio sauces in the aisles enhancing the gory effects, rounds off a tongue-in-cheek, quintessentially British take on a straight-faced American genre.
Yet the film has other charms. It's predictable that Angel will finally loosen up; and when Pegg finally breaks into a smile, almost an hour in, it's as if sunshine had broken through clouds.
It's the shambolic, rotund Danny who works his buddy magic on Angel; there's a lovely sequence with the two partners staying in one evening to watch action videos - not just the critically acclaimed Point Break, but also the duff Bad Boys II.
Hot Fuzz has its problems. It's overlong, and finally falls apart, stuttering towards a number of indecisive endings. But mostly it's a smart, funny, affectionate love letter to all things uncool - and far more skilful than its self-effacing humour suggests.
telegraph.co.uk
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