Hot Fuzz

Our next film in “Edgar Wright Month” is the funnier film in the “Cornetto Trilogy,” “Hot Fuzz,” released in 2007. Martin Chilton started his review out by saying, “Hot Fuzz reunited Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) in a comedy film that could be loosely described as The Sweeney meets the Vicar of Dibley.”

Simon Pegg plays prudish policeman Nicholas Angel, who is promoted to sergeant and sent from London to the dreary Gloucestershire town of Sandford because his work habits was showing up the rest of the Met police.

The plot is not supposed to make a lot of sense. Chilton said, “A spate of grisly murders in Sandford is shrugged off with the observation that "accidents happen".”

The village elders, who hide some dark secrets, are played by some veteran British comic actors, including Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Edward Woodward and Anne Reid. However, the best of them are Jim Broadbent as the police inspector and Timothy Dalton, who plays an evil supermarket manager.

The enjoyment is in the recurring jokes about the village (including a missing swan) and there is a smart comic shooting in the local Somerfield supermarket, with jars of pasta sauce used for bloody effect.

There’s also a great part when Angel and his hilarious drunk partner Danny Butterman, played by Nick Frost, stay in one evening to watch action movies, including “Bad Boys II.” “The best way to describe this movie is The Midsomer Murders as if directed by Tony Scott,” said Pegg.

Chilton ended his review by saying, “Hot Fuzz could easily have been trimmed by 20 minutes but it's a funny and affectionate tribute to British uncool and a homage to the best of the Hollywood action genre – and wonderfully deadpan with it.”

This is a great movie and another amazing comedy, one of my absolute favorites. If you loved “Shaun of the Dead,” then you will definitely like this one more because of how hilarious of a cop comedy it is. One of the things people say that “Hot Fuzz” actually got right is the amount of paperwork that cops have to go through on a daily basis, something that every cop movie neglects to show. Well, we have this movie to thank us for showing that. All of the great one-liners come back later in the movie to pay off some great insults in the final action scenes. Do not miss you chance to watch this movie because you will be missing out on one of the funniest movies ever made.

Now I know I said at the beginning of this review that this is the second in the “Cornetto Trilogy,” but I will not be looking at the last installment next week. Instead, I will be looking at another Edgar Wright movie that I think is still really funny. Don’t worry, I will get to the last in the trilogy, but I am reviewing all the movies that I have seen in order of release date, as I feel that is the right way to do it. Just stay tuned next week to find out which film I’m talking about for “Edgar Wright Month.” I think everyone might have a good guess at which film I will be reviewing.