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Mood:
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Plot:
- Partners Against CrimePolice InvestigationFish Out of WaterMurderVillage LifeCrimesDeadlyLaw Enforcement more...
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Genres:
- ActionComedy
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- EnglandEuropeVillage
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Audience:
- Boys' NightTeens
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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Humor:
- FarceSilly HumorDry Humor
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- Not SeriousRealisticFast
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- Profanity
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Hot Fuzz, 2007
English
UK, France
Profile of Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz can be described as offbeat, witty, and stylized. The plot revolves around village life, partners against crime, and a police investigation. Its comic aspect comes from farce and dry humor. Hot Fuzz's main genres are comedy and action. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. The storytelling is fast paced. Hot Fuzz is set, at least in part, in a village. It is located in England. It takes place in contemporary times. Hot Fuzz has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for teens and a boys' night. Note that it involves profanity.
Summary of Hot Fuzz
Pop culture sponges Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost team up again for HOT FUZZ, their follow-up to the surprise hit movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD. HOT FUZZ follows a near-identical formula to its predecessor, simply replacing the various homages to horror movies by heaping on the adulation for action flicks such as POINT BREAK and BAD BOYS II (both of which are referenced throughout). The plot finds outstanding London-based police officer Nicholas Angel (Pegg) transplanted to a rural English village. On arrival, Angel teams up with the oaf-like PC Danny Butterman (Frost) and together they investigate a series of mysterious murders, all of which are classed as "accidents" by the increasingly strange townsfolk.
Director Wright combines gory set-pieces with traditional action-movie staples: mustachioed detectives in sunglasses, corny one-liners, rapid machine-gun fire, and blood-spattered fight scenes all feature heavily. References to other movies come thick and fast throughout, and HOT FUZZ will have film fans' memories working overtime as they try to catch all the allusions to Pegg/Wright/Frost's favorite films. A veritable Who's Who of British comedy provides support, with Martin Freeman (THE OFFICE), Bill Bailey (BLACK BOOKS), Steve Coogan (I'M ALAN PARTRIDGE), and Olivia Colman (PEEP SHOW) in small roles, and there's even space in the cast for serious actors like Timothy Dalton and Paddy Considine. HOT FUZZ eases up on the humor of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and often threatens to topple over into Chuck Norris territory, but Wright manages to insert enough gags to keep the balance just about perfect, providing a fitting, amusing, and occasionally touching homage to cinema's action heroes.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, France |
| Release date: | 14 March 2007 |
| Runtime: | 121 min |
Cast and Crew
as Nicholas Angel
as PC Danny Butterman
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Critics Reviews
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Kevin Crust
Time
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- by: Richard Corliss
Users Reviews
- 01.November.2011
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- by: Nigel Walley
- Nigel Walley rated this movie7/10Good
- 26.October.2011
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- by: Jesse
- Jesse rated this movie
8/10Great
