8/29/2023 0 Comments Hot fuzz![]() ![]() He wants to know if Angel has ever fired a gun while jumping sideways through the air, or if it's true that if you shoot at a special spot in the brain it will make the head spectacularly explode.Īlmost everyone in this manicured little community seems to know and love each other, from the sinister supermarket mogul (Timothy Dalton), to the epicene solicitor (David Threlfall), to the local Inspector Butterman, poor Danny's dad, played by Jim Broadbent. Here the urban tough guy finds himself all adrift among the country mice, particularly his new partner, PC Danny Butterman, a fantastically overweight and lenient bobby played by Nick Frost, who is saucer-eyed with excitement about the macho world of London law-enforcement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pegg plays Sgt Nicholas Angel, a fiercely motivated and successful London copper who finds himself transferred to the sleepy Gloucestershire town of Sandford. Some may feel that there was more mileage and dramatic ingenuity in zombies, but for me the Wright/Pegg/Frost team make up for this with plenty of irrepressible fun, an interestingly sophisticated sense of the fictional differences between British and American crime - and big, regular laughs. Hot Fuzz tackles a new movie genre - actually, and crucially, two movie genres - and mixes in plenty of gags. Their stock-price has shot up since then and this new film, disconcertingly, seems to have a top telly star in almost every minor role. Between them, director Edgar Wright and co-authors and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost cheered us all up after a depressing welter of mockney-gangsters and persuaded us, as it were, to remove our collective big toe from the shotgun-trigger. The Britfilm bonanza in its current form arguably stems from the optimism sparked in 2004 by Shaun of the Dead, the zombie spoof from the creators of the cult TV show Spaced. At the London Critics' awards last week, I made an earnest speech about this success and for a heady few seconds bodysurfed on a wave of feelgood whooping from the audience, before I ruined it all with a spectacularly misjudged witticism about Dirty Sanchez: The Movie not winning anything - a joke received in the same kind of sudden, clock-ticking quiet that parties of grand ladies and gentlemen in 1901 must have greeted the announcement of Queen Victoria's death. And swans.There's such euphoria surrounding our film industry right now that I'd be tempted to compare it with the heady days of Britpop, were it not for the chill of imminent catastrophe and shame that this word conjures up. With a gloriously fun British cast including Bill Nighy, Olivia Colman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton, Bill Bailey and some jawdropping cameos, HOT FUZZ straddles the line between parody and genuine action thriller with guts, glory, huge explosions and quaint little model villages. But after a spate of grisly “accidents”, the unlikely duo quickly realises that there is more to this easygoing community than meets the eye… With(out) the help of his staggeringly incompetent movieloving partner Danny Butterman, Angel is resigned to arresting drunks and chasing down rogue swans. Straitlaced high-achieving super cop Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is making his superiors look bad, so they transfer him to the least exciting place they can think of: sleepy, mundane Village-of-the-Year-winning Sandford. In honour of a very special birthday (unnamed ginger teen drinking illegally in pub), head down to Nova for a special Save the Date screening of HOT FUZZ!įrom favourite Nova director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho), Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star in a high-octane buddy cop bonanza set in countryside England. ![]()
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