Hot Fuzz (TBA) **** Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton and Paddy Considine THAT rare thing, a hilarious modern British comedy film that is likely to become a classic, Hot Fuzz is a top-notch follow up for Shaun of the Dead star and writer Simon Pegg.
See the triler here: It's a cop movie parody that feels a bit like Starsky and Hutch meets Miss Marple with Pegg playing a competent officer Nicholas Angel who gets transferred from the mean streets of London to a sleepy Somerset village by some envious colleagues.
But things don't stay quiet for long for our hero as a murderer upsets the rural dream.
It is a film that pokes fun at those staples of British life - the ubiqitous TV detective story, hoodies, national stereotypes of country life a la The Archers and even a shootout at a Somerfield supermarket.
Director Edgar Wright does a fine job even if he doesn't maintain the high class comedy for the entire film. It is does sag for a while and it could have done with a bit of cutting to make it a truly great film but Hot Fuzz could be as fondly remembered in years to come as Ealing comedies like The Ladykillers are today.
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