Hot Fuzz

Posted by Joshua Martin (joshua@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 21, 2007

“Hot Fuzz” was a movie that had been under my radar for a while. I’d caught a glimpse of it at the beginning of a movie a while back thinking it’d be funny but a catchy DVD release and something that I could be happy catching later.

Thursday I got to catch screening and I laughed hard. Not in a ha, that’s funny hard. More like a Holy Crap, I caught a hernia hard. It’s really honestly one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a while and totally blew away my expectations.

I’ve known little of Edgar Wright and his team, until I got to know Neil and Brian on the site. They love his work, and are huge fans of his. Giving me knowledge, I was prepared for the movie coming, and By the power of Grayskull they made a movie that destroyed their last movie “Shaun of the Dead”.

In this movie the two stars Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost are a cop team who are in a distant village whom has always won village of the year and they are sent there to keep it that way. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) didn’t chose this because he was the best cop in London. In fact he was so good, his arrest rate was 400% better than anyone else’s.

This village obviously has the dark sinister quality that you’d expect in a comedy. But it does it in such an over the top, hilarious way that you can explain it. Kicking 60 year old ladies in the face, impaling someone on shrubbery shears. Indescribably funny.

“Hot Fuzz” lampoons some of the best action movies, and some of the best cinematics of some really good action flicks. From mocking Michael Bay and his circular shooting motions, or anything mocking Keanu Reeves is honestly worth the price of admission alone. They don’t do it in just a mockingly average way. The humor in the movie is really a highbrow comedy but still makes you feel like a college kid when you watch it.

The movie is clich© and proud of it. Not in the way you think, they’d been very careful in the fact that nothing you’ll see has been done. Yet they still take the classic action spoofs and stick it to the man. This movie really speaks to the Film School Rejects. This movie gives action movie hollywood the finger.

The supporting cast in this movie with Timothy Dalton as a villain is classic. It’s well scripted and timed really well. I can’t honestly say enough about the movie in that aspect. I really think that this comedy stands out as dark horse for the year for a lot of acclaim as a comedy for people.

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