Hot Fuzz DVD Review

"Hot Fuzz" reviews

DVD

Hot Fuzz

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2007-06-08 15:04:24

Provider

MRIB

DVD Review

From the stars/creators of Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead comes another well observed British comedy with the target this time being cop movie/TV.

Simon Pegg plays Nick Angel, an exemplary Police Officer whose dedication to the force is making his less enthusiastic colleagues look bad. Instead of being commended for his crime-busting efforts, Angel is sent packing to a sleepy West Country village station where the only action involves capturing an elusive escaped swan from the local park. Having successfully dealt with underage drinkers in the local pub and a serious bout of traffic cone theft, Angel begins to suspect that a series of grizzly deaths aren't the freak accidents they first appear to be.

As with director Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's previous efforts, Hot Fuzz pays homage to genre movies, specifically those American and Hong Kong action films. The references are clear but the placing of such scenarios in UK suburbia is what makes the pair's movies stand out and what works well here.

That's also what sets their films apart from the straightforward silliness of recent American spoofs.

Jim Broadbent, Steve Coogan and Bill Nighey are among those who make cameo appearances while Nick Frost (Angel's dim-witted colleague Danny) steals the best lines.

Befitting the endearingly nerdy nature of Pegg and co., the extras are plentiful here including - 4 audio commentaries featuring Pegg and Edgar Wright, the Sandford Village People and the Sandford Police, outtakes, trailers & TV Spots, The Man Who Would Be Fuzz, Hot Funk, Fuzz-o-meter, storyboards, Flick Book,

22 Deleted Scenes with optional commentary, making of, 13 Video Blogs, featurettes, photo & poster Galleries, Dead Right: Edgar Wright's First Cop Movie with Filmmaker Commentaries and, would you believe, more.

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