World Famous Comics: Hot Fuzz (Full Screen Edition)
Hot Fuzz (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Julia Deakin, Patricia Franklin Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Universal Studios Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 31, 2007 Running Time: 121 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Product Description: Get ready for a gut-busting outrageous comedy from the guys that created Shaun of the Dead. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a big-city cop who can't be stopped - but he's making everyone else on the force look bad. When he is reassigned to a small quiet town he struggles with this new seemingly idyllic world and his bumbling partner (Nick Frost). But their dull existence is interrupted by several grisly and suspicious accidents and the crime-fighting duo turn up the heat and hand out high-octane car-chasing gun-fighting big-city justice in this hilarious hit critics are calling "Outrageous! Uproariously Funny!" (Thelma Adams US Weekly).System Requirements:Running Time: 121 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 025193327420 Manufacturer No: 62033274
Amazon.com: In Shaun of the Dead, it was the zombie movie and the anomie of modern 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) explain that he's making the rest of the force look bad. On the surface, Sandford is a sleepy little burg where 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 Bad 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 big 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 bigger budget for car chases, shoot-outs, and fiery explosions. Though Hot Fuzz earns its R-rating with salty language and grisly deaths, the tone is more good-natured than mean-spirited. A wall-to-wall soundtrack of boisterous British favorites, like the Kinks, T-Rex, and Sweet, contributes to the fast-paced fun. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Hot Fuzz is HOT! I saw the trailers and thought that this would be a fun movie to see in the theater. What I was when we got there was way beyond my expectations.
I hadn't seen Shawn of the Dead (although I had heard of it) nor do I recall seeing any Simon Pegg movie before. What I came away with was a new favorite set of actors and film makers. These guys were just laugh-out-loud funny. Simon Pegg and his ultra serious, extremely dedicated character made me want to see much, much more of his work. Edgar Wright made me believe he was just a simple little small-town cop.
Definitely a must-see.
SHAUN OF THE DEAD The film is littered with in jokes and cultural references. There are also a number of references to SHAUN OF THE DEAD, but it isn't important to get any of these to enjoy the movie.
Over hyped With all the hype for this movie I was expecting more. Half the time I could not understand the British accents, and the movie itself was just OK.
A movie that will be loved by action seekers for years This movie is packed with action. It is super funny and just an all around great movie. It looked the best on HD-DVD. Let me say that I am into technology, when I stepped into a movie theater and saw the 1st HD-DVD commercial I ever saw, I was immediatly drawn to the format. I know it sounds weird and its hard to explain but I was drawn to HD-DVD, I was devestated when toshiba discontinued HD-DVD in febuary of 2008. But being as into technology as I am a continue to follow the latest trand which as unfortunate as it is, is BLU-RAY.
As weird as that sounds, its the truth.
If you have a HD-DVD player GET THIS MOVIE. If you dont GET THIS MOVIE ON DVD. When it come out (if it does) GET THIS MOVIE ON BLU-RAY.
HD-DVD: R.I.P
This is what parody should be London policeman (sorry, police officer) Nick Angel (Simon Pegg) is good at his job. In fact, he is so good that he is making his fellow officers look bad and gets "promoted" to a position in the country in order to remedy this situation. However, all is not as it seems in the peaceful country town of Sandford, and pretty soon Sergeant Angel, with the assistance of his partner (Nick Frost), is tracking down a serial killer who is murdering the residents of this town and making the deaths look like accidents.
"Hot Fuzz" is written and directed by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, who previously brought us "Shaun of the Dead", stars many of the same actors, and is even funnier than their previous movie. Essentially, "Hot Fuzz" is a parody of action movies, just as "Shaun of the Dead" was a parody of zombie films, but unlike a lot of recent parodies that have been made in the US (such as "Date Movie", "Not Another Teen Movie", the "Scary Movie" series etc), these films aren't made up of a series of recreations of scenes from other movies. Instead, these films parody the conventions and clichés of their respective genres, but in the context of an original story. If you look back at some of the earliest parodies, such as "The Naked Gun" or "Blazing Saddles", this is what the creators of these films also did, and this is the way that parody should be.
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