The lowest crime rate but the higgest accident rate in the country? Fishy, fishy... (Hot Fuzz (Special Edition, 2 DVDs))

Member Name: pcspinheiro

Product:	Hot Fuzz (Special Edition, 2 DVDs)
Date:	15/08/09 (10 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good plot, good acting, very funny

Disadvantages: None that I can remember

I didn't know if it was possible for Edgar Wright to make a funnier, more entertaining film that Shawn of the Dead, but the truth is they succeeded. Hot Fuzz is simply brilliant as a comedy.
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is an ambitious and hard working London police officer, a real superstar in his precinct. He's so good that makes all others look like idiots and they soon plot to get rid of him and send him to a small rural village away from London. Needless to say that nothing remotely dangerous or interesting happens in the lost village. Nicholas has to join local policeman Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), a drunk tyke that has no idea how to take his work seriously. However, Nicholas soon notices strange incidents and starts to suspect that something really serious and dangerous threatens the village, but is it real or just the imagination of a super cop trying to fight boredom?

Hot Fuzz is an incredible parody of the typical cop and action films. We very frequently see references to films of the genre but obviously in a comical sense. The characters were brilliantly built and the actors giving life to them successfully embody all that the characters have to offer. The argument is, by itself, brilliant, with intelligent and hilarious dialogues, even when they are simply silly. Edgar Wright was also behind the argument and succeeds to perfectly combine a good story with visual jokes. The film is also coherent, not like many that start one way, end another way and we are left clueless about how one led to the other. Hot Fuzz offers a well structured screenplay that supplies the viewer with small detailed that are useful for understanding the story. For example, the village cops only eat sweets and the special effects are always exaggerated.

Among the cast, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were both very well, contributing with a unique comic interpretation that owes nothing to other great names of British comedy.

In conclusion, this film was an enormous surprise; it gathers all the essential ingredients of an excellent comedy and the final result could not be less than excellent.

Summary: Mr. Wright, bring on the next one!