What hap­pens when you take every Super­Cop movie, com­bine it with fan­tas­tic writ­ing and British humour so dry, you could use it as a com­bustible fuel? You get Hot Fuzz. I’m still new at this movie review thing, so I’m going to try to do this as best I can.
This movie is for all intents and pur­poses, fan­tas­tic. It man­ages to take skits from every block-​busting action movie (Bad Boys 2, Point Break, Aliens, etc etc) while still retain­ing its own iden­tity, brought about by bril­liant writing.

The story, briefly , is that Sergeant Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a super cop, who is out­shin­ing the rest of the force. As a result, the higher-​ups whisk him off to Som­er­set, a vil­lage that has won the “Perfect Village” Award I don’t know how many times. Nicholas starts going mad until a series of “accidents” have him struck para­noid. The movie then turns into a who­dunit for at least an hour as he and his part­ner Danny But­ter­man (Nick Frost) try and figure out what is really hap­pen­ing. The end of the movie turns out to be a non-​stop action ride, filled with so many near over-​the-​top items that it just bor­ders on ludi­crous but never quite cross­ing the line.

I was hap­pily enam­ored with the movie the entire way through, and never actu­ally became tired with it. I’ve seen the movie twice (once with Theresa and again with my brother and his lady­folk), and I still found it funny the second time through. I could even argue that I appre­ci­ated the movie more the second time, as I got to catch all the jokes that flew past me the first time. I kid you not when I say there is in some instances, 10 jokes under the span of a minute, and if you miss one and try and think about it you will undoubt­edly miss the rest that pro­ceeded it.

Having said all that, do not see this movie if you are expect­ing a movie that is all action and takes itself seri­ous. Don’t get me wrong, it does take itself seri­ously, but with so many jokes thrown in that it doesn’t give off the feel. Do not see this movie if you are a fan of cheap laughs and/or gags. Hot Fuzz is British humour right down to its Limey bones, and can only be appre­ci­ated as such.

If you enjoy dry, dark, sar­cas­tic humour. If you like ridicu­lous fight scenes in model vil­lages (another movie spoof­ing), Gun-​toting pri­mary school teach­ers, and watch­ing an old woman get kicked in the face by Simon Pegg (truly this is much, MUCH fun­nier then it sounds). And if and only if you like lis­ten­ing to old men that you cannot in all hon­esty under­stand until you’ve watched the movie twice, despite every­thing they are saying is rude and humourous, should you watch this movie.

Well okay, if you also enjoy a solid sto­ry­line that actu­ally keeps you guess­ing, excel­lent loca­tional shoot­ing, a sur­pris­ingly good musi­cal score, and per­fect role cast­ing, then you may want to take a gander at the movie as well.

Final score: 8/10