Hot Fuzz (2007)

[Edgy MD]

The team behind Shaun of the Dead return with this tale of an intense over-achieving cop in London, that gets transferred to a bucolic country town by his shown-up superiors.

His new assignment is supposedly in a hamlet with the county's lowest crime rate. He finds the town more violent than prommised, and begins to suspect that the low crime rate is due to all their violent crimes being reported as accidents.

Hijinx ensue.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Definitely intend to see this one.

[Willets Point]

Ditto Dickshot.

[Frayed Knot]

S-o-t-D was good enough to give this one a viewing.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Funny but not as good as SOTD.

I thought they went awfully far just to set up a "buddy cop movie" American violence film sendup/homage/criticism, especially when:
a) You knew that was going to happen
the mystery backstory they set up was pretty unmysterious from the start.

And not for nothing but I'd have liked a romance angle as well. SOTD had one.

All that said, some great violence/action scenes, hard and soft laffs. The supermarket fight was hilarious.

[Edgy MD]

The establishment of Angel's character was fun, and by reel two, you never thought of that guy as Shawn.

They funny thing is that the sidekick is playing the same character, but the lead goes from (in SotD) playing an under-grownup shlub who has to leave his meatball friend behind, to (in HF) playing an over-grownup who has to learn from the meatball to loosen up.

It's just too easy to make a movie about Brit dopes wishing (and not wishing) their streets had the stylized violence of Hollywood cop movies, and then steal all these shots for giggles from those movies.

There seem to be a punch rule, like "We have to have something gruesome every XX minutes."

[RealityChuck]

Best comedy I've seen in years. Genuinely funny, both in the plot and the sendup of action movie cliches.