Hot Fuzz is a hilarious take on the action genre - having seen every action movie ever [ 138 by their count ] the team that brought you Shaun of the Dead zombie movie put the action genre squarely in their sights.
Having been transferred to Sanford after the fish out of water super-dedicated cop Nicholas Angel [Simon Pegg] has made everybody on his London squad look so badly he is forced to adapt to the "quieter" ways of the village dedicated to the where things are done "the greater good" - where on his first night he arrests the the local bobby Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) who is son of the police force chief Frank Butterman [played to the daft hilt by Jim Broadbent], clears out the pub of all the underage drinkers rendering the place empty, then track down a swan.
Sanford has the lowest crime rate in England, but seemingly it is prone to the most "accidents". Then all of a sudden [after the swan] people turn up dead and a strangely cloaked personage is seen.
Unlocking the mystery of Sanford proves to be an adventurous bad boys cop tale - pairing the straight-laced London bobby with the fat out of shape cop who introduces Angel to his two favourite action flicks Bad Boys 2 [ quoted in the Q&A session afterwards as the epitome of American stupidness but you get caught up until the end ] and Point Blank. Hot Fuzz takes the schtick out of scenes from Lethal Weapon, Charles Bronson, and ultimately Point Blank itself.
Hot Fuzz is well done and leave you laughing harder than you expected and will leave you cheering by the end. What will be next? The movie Don't promised in the trailers of Grindhouse?
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