Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media. Hot Fuzz is a worthy follow-up to Shaun of the Dead and cements Pegg, Frost, and director Edgar Wright as creative talents to watch. Hot Fuzz is crammed full of excellent characters, ranging from the eccentric to the diabolical, and every one gets at least one laugh during the course of the movie and most of them get many more.
Read the Empire Movie review of Hot Fuzz. Hot Fuzz has a much harder job to do than Shaun. Zombies overrunning the suburbs and being fought off by a pair of layabouts armed only with arrested development and on-demand flatulence is an obviously ripe idea.
Woo, woo it's the sound of the police: straight after bashing the undead in Shaun, Simon Pegg tools up for Hot Fuzz, a criminally funny cop movie parody that plays like Bad Boys II meets Midsomer Murders (and we mean that as a. The meta-movie silliness works well enough for the crisp setup. Pegg are essentially parodying self-parodies (see "Con Air" ad infinitum), they have also smartly kinked up their conceit by setting most of the film in a sleepy village that might as. (I've never really done a movie review, but I'll try and keep this as spoiler free as possible, so as not to ruin any of the jokes in the film.) "Hot Fuzz". Starring: Simon Pegg Nick Frost Jim Broadbent Timothy Dalton Edward Woodward Paddy. This is my review of the movie Hot Fuzz. See the trailer of the movie and listen to my review of the movie.
Trailer Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz, Wright and Pegg's loving send-up of action comedies, suggests that its makers got more out of Bad Boys II and Point Break—two of its tongue-in-cheek touchstones—than most filmmakers get out of Citizen Kane and The Grand Illusion. I highly disagree with this review. I understand that the genre seemed awkward, but that is because it was satirizing a number of action movies.
I did see Hot Fuzz even before Shaun of the Dead and immediately placed it in my favorite movies list. Hot Fuzz was created by the same team that gave birth (and living death) to the zombie-flick spoof, Shaun of the Dead. This time around, they grab Fuzz adopts a straight-faced approach to movie formula, in-jokes and clichés worthy of a suitcase full of action movies. But it aims higher (or lower.