Hot Fuzz (2007)
Movie Title: Hot Fuzz (2007)
Actors: Simon Pegg, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman,
Directors: Edgar Wright
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Studio: Universal Studios
Run Time: 121 summary
Movie Description
In Shaun of the Dead, it was the zombie movie and the anomie of present life. In Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg set their sights on the buddy cop blockbuster and the eccentric English village. The two worlds collide when overachieving London officer Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is promoted to sergeant. The catch is that he’s being transferred to Agatha Christie country. His superiors (the comic trifecta of Martin Campbell, Steve Coogan, and Bill Nighy) clarify that he’s making the rest of the break down look terrible. On the surface, Sandford is a sleepy small burg everywhere the most egregious crimes, like loitering, are committed by hoody-sporting schoolboys. In truth, it’s a hotbed of Willow Man-style evil. Upon his arrival, Chief Butterman (Jim Broadbent) partners Angel with his daft son, Danny (Nick Frost, Pegg’s Shaun co-star), who aspires to kick criminal “arse” like the slick duo in Terrible Boys II. When random citizens start turning up dead, he gets his chance. With the worshipful Danny at his side, Angel shows his cake-eating colleagues how things are done in the huge city. As in Shaun, their previous picture, Wright and Pegg hit their targets more often than not. With the success of that debut comes a larger fiscal proclamation for car chases, shoot-outs, and fiery explosions. Even if Hot Fuzz earns its R-rating with salty language and grisly deaths, the tone is more excellent-natured than mean-spirited. A wall-to-wall soundtrack of boisterous British favorites, like the Kinks, T-Rex, and Sweet, contributes to the quick-paced fun. –Kathleen C. Fennessy
Movie Review
Nicholas Angel is one of London’s top performing cops- which is why the department is trying to get rid of him. Transferred to a rural town, Nicholas starts to clean up the streets with amusing results. I found the character of Nick Angel to be exceptionally amusing and likeable. Partnered with the police chief’s son, they make an brilliant team. I found the ending to be particularly amusing. If you Like Shaun of the Dead, then you’ll like this film. This was a well-made film sure to delight fans of buddy cop drama and humorous police shows. 5 stars. –By LadyNaava “LadyNaava” (Sunny California)
Plot Synopsis
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is undoubtedly London’s finest constable. His arrest record far surpasses that of any other officer, and he continues to undergo training to better his skills. This makes his fellow constables look terrible, so they have him forcibly promoted and transferred to Sandford, a country village with the lowest crime rate in the country.
Sandford is as silent as it is advertised, which depresses Nick. On his first night in the village, he kicks underage drinkers out of the local pub, then arresting them for disorderly conduct in the streets. One of his arrestees turns out to be his new partner, Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), a doughy, affable chap whose father, Frank (Jim Broadbent) is the village’s chief of police. Nick meets his fellow constables who, with the exception of the smug Andys (Paddy Considine and Rafe Spall), are affable but neither adept at nor much interested in investigative police work. The only other people who seem interested in law and order are the Neighborhood Mind Association, a group of long-time residents who care deeply about maintaining Sandford’s reputation as the nation’s best village and are concerned about the arrival of street performers and other riffraff.
Danny, but, pesters Nick for details of his career in London, which Danny is certain was filled with the kind of blazing action he has seen in American action films like “Point Break” and “Terrible Boys II.”For a few days, Nick’s most exciting moments are chasing a run off swan and then a shoplifter, and confiscating the arsenal a local farmer has composed over the being, including a rusty sea mine. He also pulls over for speeding the local solicitor and his much younger girlfriend. The two of them are on their way to perform in their “worship” to Shakespeare, a dreadful updating of “Romeo and Juliet.”
With the performance, the two would-be thespians are brutally murdered by a dark-cloaked map with a hatchet. Their bodies are then strewn about in the road everywhere Nick and Danny had pulled them over for speeding and their car wrecked to make their deaths appear to be a gory traffic accident. The other police officers are content with explanation, despite Nick’s concerns about the lack of skid marks at the scene. Read More…
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