- Film Review
- Reviewed By Jamie Russell
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4 out of 5
Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright - the team behind zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead - return for this gleeful pastiche of American action movies. Pegg stars as an over-achieving London policeman transferred to a crime-free village where all is not as it seems. What begins as a very funny, very British murder mystery eventually mutates into an ironic action spectacular that blows up half of Gloucestershire (or rather, Wells pretending to be Gloucestershire). Armed with a Who's Who of home-grown acting talent and a surfeit of gags, Hot Fuzz also showcases the continuing comic partnership of Pegg and co-star Nick Frost. Their mismatched cops play out every buddy movie convention imaginable while discussing subjects as diverse as ice-cream "brain freeze" and the homoeroticism of action thriller Point Break. More smart than silly, this is self-confident comedy that's proud to be British.
Plot Summary
Action comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. London policeman Nicholas Angel is reassigned to a sleepy rural village, but soon finds that the big city doesn't have a monopoly on crime.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Sergeant Nicholas Angel
- Simon Pegg
- PC Danny Butterman
- Nick Frost
- Inspector Frank Butterman
- Jim Broadbent
- Sergeant Tony Fisher
- Kevin Eldon
- DS Andy Wainwright
- Paddy Considine
- DC Andy Cartwright
- Rafe Spall
- PC Doris Thatcher
- Olivia Colman
- PC Bob Walker
- Karl Johnson (2)
- Simon Skinner
- Timothy Dalton
- Tom Weaver
- Edward Woodward
- Joyce Cooper
- Billie Whitelaw
- Met Chief Inspector
- Bill Nighy
- Janine, Angel's ex-girlfriend
- Cate Blanchett
- Met police chief
- Steve Coogan
- Man dressed as Santa
- Peter Jackson
- Bob
- Joe Cornish
- Roy Porter
- Peter Wight
- Mary Porter
- Julia Deakin
- Sergeant Turner
- Bill Bailey
- Reverend Philip Shooter
- Paul Freeman
- Dr Robin Hatcher
- Stuart Wilson
- Leslie Tiller
- Anne Reid
- James Reaper
- Kenneth Cranham
- Tim Messenger
- Adam Buxton
- Peter Ian Staker
- Stephen Merchant
- George Merchant
- Ron Cook
- Martin Blower
- David Threlfall
- Eve Draper
- Lucy Punch
- Arthur Webley
- David Bradley (2)
Crew
- Director
- Edgar Wright
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