Hot Fuzz (2006)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 197
Fresh: 179 | Rotten: 18
The brilliant minds behind Shaun of the Dead successfully take a shot at the buddy cop genre with Hot Fuzz. The result is a bitingly satiric and hugely entertaining parody.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 4
The brilliant minds behind Shaun of the Dead successfully take a shot at the buddy cop genre with Hot Fuzz. The result is a bitingly satiric and hugely entertaining parody.
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A top London cop who is so good at his job that he makes his fellow officers look like slackers by comparison is "promoted" to serve in the sleepy village of Sandford in this contemporary action comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead. Police constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) always gets his man, but these days his impeccable record seems to be more indicative of his fellow officers' shortcomings than his own formidable skills as a keeper of the peace. Loathe to stand idly by as their
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Cast
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Simon Pegg
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Nick Frost
PC Danny Butterman -
Jim Broadbent
Inspector Frank Butterm... -
Paddy Considine
DS Andy Andy Wainwright -
Timothy Dalton
Simon Skinner -
Billie Whitelaw
Joyce Cooper -
Edward Woodward
Tom Weaver -
Rafe Spall
DS Andy Cartwright -
Olivia Colman
PC Doris Thatcher -
Paul Freeman
Rev. Philip Shooter -
Martin Freeman
Met Sergeant -
Bill Nighy
Met Chief Inspector -
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Bill Bailey
Sergeant Turner -
Julia Deakin
Mary Porter -
Kenneth Cranham
James Reaper -
Patricia Franklin
Annette Roper -
Anne Reid
Leslie Tiller -
Stuart Wilson
Dr. Robin Hatcher -
Peter Wight
Roy Porter -
Kevin Eldon
Sergeant Tony Fisher -
Karl Johnson
PC Bob Walker -
Adam Buxton
Tim Messenger -
Joe Cornish
Bob -
Alice Lowe
Tina -
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All Critics (198) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (186) | Rotten (18) | DVD (29)
It's such a vibrant goof, so full of love both for the movies and for its cast of ridiculous characters that you forgive it the odd soggy stretch.
Top CriticWright and Pegg have topped Shaun of the Dead by trans(atlantic)planting a whole gaggle of genres.
The movie duly quickens into pursuits of every speed, and the homage to action thrillers is there in the smallest detail; the clicking of a ballpoint pen, say, is amplified to sound as menacing as the cocking of a gun.
Nervous yet, Hollywood? Better make room for a few more lads.
Though it's no Monty Python, Hot Fuzz is a clever, over-the-top marriage of mayhem and merriment.
What prevents Hot Fuzz from crossing over into already well-travelled Naked Gun territory is the constant bouncing of high-Hollywood style and the timid, teatime setting.
Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright's follow-up to his extremely popular zombie satire Shaun of the Dead (2004), improves on the latter's strong points in every conceivable way while drastically tightening up its weakest elements.
Works because they set out to make a faithful genre picture just as equally as a comedy. The film is even funnier because they never sacrifice plot or character for a laugh.
From paying homage to Michael Bay's camera motions to kicking an old lady square in the kisser, this film holds nothing back and fires away with tons of laughs.
There's real fondness not just for the crash-a-tons being referenced, but also for a homey, practically imaginary England
The opening premise of Hot Fuzz is like the recipe for a simple concept comedy: overachieving cop in underachieving village, and it works to set the all important tone in this funnily ridiculous film.
The makers of Shaun of the Dead have done it again. This time they have combined a classic cop-buddy movie with a quaint town in England, and yes, laughs definitely ensue.
It's overlong and not always precisely on target but neither self-congratulating nor condescending -- and a fine, funny contribution to English-American mutual amusement besides.
... as if a cop movie spoof had been awkwardly rammed into a seriously splatter film, with a big, violent blowout finale to blur the lines between the two.
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... inventive parody of armed-and-dangerous buddy cop films and Britain's cottage industry of cozy murder mysteries in picaresque rural villages.
Bad Boys meets Shaun of the Dead.
... lives up to expectations even if it can't exceed the hype.
Yet another excellent mélange of movie genres from Britain's team of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
It's a movie that is literally, painfully funny, insofar as I occasionally laughed so hard that I thought my chest was about to collapse.
Audience Reviews for Hot Fuzz
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- Nicholas Angel: Pack it in, Frank, you silly bastard!
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- DS Andy Andy Wainwright: It's all right, Andy! It's just bolognaise!
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- Nicholas Angel: I may not be a man of God, Reverend, but I know right, and I know wrong, and I have the good grace to know which is which.
- Rev. Philip Shooter: Oh... fuck off, grasshopper!
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- Nicholas Angel: Morning.
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- PC Danny Butterman: Did you take care of him?
- Nicholas Angel: I threw him in the freezer.
- PC Danny Butterman: Awwww... you shoulda said 'Cool off'.
- Nicholas Angel: Well, you missed it earlier when I distracted him with the monkey and knocked him out and said 'Playtime's over'.
- PC Danny Butterman: You're up the fuckin' CHAIN!
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- Nicholas Angel: Why is everyone here eating chocolate cake?
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Latest News on Hot Fuzz
December 12, 2011:
Nick Frost Wants to Go to The World's End with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright Next YearHe has a first draft of the script, and is hoping to shoot in 2012.
March 30, 2009:
Pegg, Wright Plan The World's EndSimon Pegg and Edgar Wright are busy guys, but they don't have too much going on to start thinking...
April 7, 2008:
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg to Complete Cornetto Trilogy with Sci-Fi Doomsday PicAfter Shaun of the Dead (zombies) and Hot Fuzz (cops), comes The World's End: the final installment...
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