| | | Hot Fuzz is the Action-Packed New Comedy from the Makers of the Hit Movie Shaun of the Dead!
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Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is the finest police officer London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He's so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so embarrassing - the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford.With garden fetes and neighborhood watch meetings replacing the action of the city, Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), an oafish but well meaning young Constable. Just as all seems lost, a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into action. Convince of foul play, Angel realizes that Sandford may not be as idyllic as it seems. With his faithful new partner in tow, Angel fights to prove his instincts are correct and uncover the truth about Sandford. Is Angel simply losing his mind in the safest, sweetest village in Britain? Or is something far more sinister at work? A small village is about to get some big city justice.
"The good humor bubbles up from a deep reservoir of affection for Hollywood schlock." J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
"...as laceratingly entertaining as its predecessor [Shaun of the Dead]." Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide
"Everything an action-comedy should be." Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club
"In addition to the marvelous lead cast, all sorts of funny performers show up in cameo roles..." Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
"The best, surely the smartest, English-language movie of the year to date." Richard Corliss, Time
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Fuzz-O-Meter (Trivia Track) | | Inadmissible: Deleted Scenes | | The Extended Fuzzball Rally With Audio Commentary By Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost & Joe Cornish | | Audio: English, French, Spanish DD-EX 5.1 Surround Sound | | Bonus Edgar Wright Film: Dead Right (1993) | | Director's Cut Trailer | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Edgar Wright Director's Audio Commentary On Dead Right | | Feature Audio Commentary With Edgar Wright & Guest | | Feature Audio Commentary With Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright | | Feature Audio Commentary With The Real Fuzz - Any Leafe & Nick Eckland | | Feature Audio Commentary With The Sandford Police Service - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kevin Eldon & Olivia Colman | | Feature Audio Commentary With The Sandford Village People - Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Paul Freeman & Edward Woodward | | Featurettes: Danny's Notebook, Hot Funk, We Made Hot Fuzz, Art Department, Friends & Family, Cranks, Cranes & Controlled Chaos, Here Come The Fuzz, Return To Sandford, Edgar & Simon's Flip Chart, Simon Muggs, Sergeant Fisher's Perfect Sunday, Plot Holes, Special Effects - Before & After, & AM Blam - Making Dead Right | | Interactive Menus | | ITunes Blogs | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Outtakes | | Photo Galleries | | Scene Selection | | Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Audio Commentary On Dead Right | | Storyboards | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | UK TV Spots | | Video Blogs |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 11/27/2007 |
| Running Time: 121 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 62103193 | | UPC: 00025195025096 | | Number of Discs: 3 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Bill Nighy | | Martin Freeman | | Nick Frost | | Simon Pegg | | Chris Dickens - Editor | | David Arnold - Original Music By | | Edgar Wright - Director | | Edgar Wright - Writer | | Jess Hall - Cinematographer | | Marcus Rowland - Production Designer | | Natascha Wharton - Executive Producer | | Simon Pegg - Writer | | Tim Bevan - Producer |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] churning blender of gags, mugs, kinks, quirks, sneaks, nods, wink-winks, zingers and stingers that thunders along..." 04/01/2007 p.43Premiere
3 stars out of 4 -- "[D]eeply nuts and exhaustingly hilarious..." 04/01/2007 p.44 Sight and Sound
"Full blooded as the action is, Wright and Pegg's comedic verve and detail-conscious writing shine through..." 04/01/2007 p.66 Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 4 -- "You can't beat these Brits for blood lust and belly laughs....It's a blast." 04/19/2007 p.70 Entertainment Weekly
"[A] very funny cop comedy....These guys are as much A-level scholars of movie genre conventions as their better-known, better-hyped Stateside colleagues Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez..." -- Grade: B 04/27/2007 116-117 New York Times
"Mr. Pegg and Mr. Frost, who played best buddies in SHAUN OF THE DEAD, have an easy, believable rapport....Think of it as THE FULL MONTY blown to smithereens." 04/18/2007 p.E10 Box Office
"In director Edgar Wright and Pegg's tight script, the humor works on several levels....Best is Wright's slick style, with quick cuts that move the action along at a clip." 05/01/2007 p.66 Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "HOT FUZZ is pure fun from start to finish and is so chock full of blink-and-you'll-miss-it gags that it's endlessly watchable." 06/29/2007 p.29 Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "[F]illed with gentle British laughs and chaotic American ultraviolence....[HOT FUZZ] knows who it's shooting for and picks them off expertly." 08/01/2007 p.137 ReelViews 8 of 10
The team of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, the guys who combined guffaws and gore in Shaun of the Dead, have elected to follow their offbeat zombie farce with an action comedy. Considering their earlier success, it is perhaps unsurprising that they have gotten it mostly right. Hot Fuzz is a little too long and suffers from a sagging midsection when the level of exposition becomes laborious, but the spectacularly entertaining final 30 minutes compensates for a lot of flaws...Hot Fuzz is the second police satire to arrive in theaters this year and it is vastly superior to Reno 911. That earlier film is an example of what happens when a movie uses lame material to tie together an uneven string of jokes. Hot Fuzz has a higher agenda, and it shows. This movie wants to tickle the funny bone while telling a story that's worth telling. For the most part, Wright achieves this aim. - James Berardinelli
Reel.com 10 of 10
Having successfully sent up the zombie film in the delightfully daft Shaun of the Dead, the team of writer/director Edgar Wright, writer/actor Simon Pegg, and actor Nick Frost is back. This time, the gang sets its sights on the action movie with the wild, wonderful, and completely hysterical Hot Fuzz. It is only April, too early to start talking about "best-ofs" for 2007, but this perfectly executed piece of movie-making brilliance sets the bar awfully high for every other comedy destined to come out this year. It is nothing short of genius...Wright appears to be having the time of his life, directing a series of action set pieces in the most unlikely of settings that ape their deadly serious and much bigger budget Hollywood counterparts. And if that was not enough, the movie is virtually a who's who of Brit actors...Try not to speed too much on the way to the multiplex, lest someone like Nick Angel pull you over, but do race to Hot Fuzz. It is one arresting comedy. - Pam Grady
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