– Howie Nave is host/manager of The Improv comedy club inside Harveys and reviews films for seven radio stations throughout northern California and Nevada, including the Sirius Radio Network every Sunday evening. “Hot Fuzz” is one of those movies you’ll want to see again and then tell others about to get their reaction after they see it. It’s like the first season of “Saturday Night Live” mixed in with the best of “Monty Python” and “Benny Hill,” and Pegg’s deadpan humor that makes this work so well. The two have a natural rapport, and they obviously know how to improvise situations without appearing archaic or stupid.Įven the obligatory chase scenes are first-rate. I guess less is more, but when someone strikes your funny bone just right, you don’t want that feeling of euphoria just to vanish so quickly, now do you?Īs far as “Buddy” flicks go, the chemistry between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is unbeatable for comedic timing. That was my only complaint, really, because just when you found yourself keeling over from laughing so hard at these minor characters, they were suddenly gone from the screen. Seeing Bill Nighy in any movie is worth the admission price alone, and here he is so hilarious. Freeman starred in the original BBC series “The Office,” and went on to appear in some of my favorite flicks, including “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” from 2005. Other highlights include Adam Buxton as a reporter, and Martin Freeman looking always-perplexed as if he woke up from a bad dream and didn’t know whose bed he had woken up in. What? You mean the former James Bond is in a Simon Pegg movie? Oh, yeah, and he really gets into the role here as the nasty character Skinner. Some of the special guests who appear in “Hot Fuzz” include Bill Bailey, Steve Coogan, Bill Nighy and Timothy Dalton. I’m glad now that Hollywood made those turkeys, so that others could lampoon them in a far more entertaining light. OK, so they were very bad movies over here, but director Wright turns something terrible into something hilarious, poking fun at some of the most retarded movies that passed as action flicks. Oh, sure, they have stolen from our movies to make this one. Maybe it’s the tight-knit British community of actors that makes watching their movies so entertaining, but when you see a plethora of cameos from other Brit hits, one can’t help but wonder why we can’t make some original comedies over here, and not just something stolen from other movies. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that his father is top cop of Sandford, Inspector Frank Butterfield, either. There he hooks up with that town’s bobbie, Danny Butterfield (Frost), who is sort of the same character, if you will, that he played in “Shaun” – that of a bumbling nit who doesn’t seem to want to really grow up. Angel gets reassigned to the very slow and non-criminal village of Sandford. Not just his peers, but also superiors – they’re that jealous. Pegg plays London copper Sergeant Nicholas Angel, whose arrest record is so good that other cops begin to hate him. What Simon Pegg did for zombies in “Shaun of the Dead” he has now done for cliché-oriented, over-the-top, cheesy cop movies in “Hot Fuzz.”ĭirected by Edgar Wright (who co-wrote this and the 2004 zombie comedy with Pegg) and co-starring Nick Frost (who also appeared in “Shaun of the Dead”), “Hot Fuzz” grabs the funny bone almost immediately and doesn’t let go until the conclusion. I would never say never, and you're not wrong to say that that's the one that you could do further installments.Matt Nettheim / Focus Features / Nick Frost, left, and Simon Pegg star in "Hot Fuzz." "I've definitely had some ideas and me and Simon have even talked about it at points, but it's that thing of, do I want to spend three years of my life doing that? Or do I wanna, if I have the opportunity to tell a new story, would I do that? If somebody said to me, if Baby Driver 2, if that kind of came up, it would be like, I have ideas. However, the sequel could happen in the near future if Pegg and Wright decide to that they want to dedicate a significant portion of their lives to do it. While Wright says, "never say never," nothing has been officially announced at this time. When Edgar Wright was asked about Hot Fuzz 2 last year, the director wouldn't rule it out and said that he and Simon Pegg had talked about it a few times. It would have to be like how Crocodile Dundee 2 was." Because Hot Fuzz was about my character going to the countryside to be a cop in a small town it would have to be about Nicholas Angel taking Nick Frost's character Danny to the big city. "I think the only one of those films that could possibly get a sequel is Hot Fuzz because that could sort of be a continuing action-style cop thing.
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