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 Simon Pegg stars in Hot Fuzz
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Hot Angel Delight
HOT FUZZ
Directed by Edgar Wright
Certificate 15
SIMON Pegg made his name in the superb Channel Four comedy series Spaced, which he co-wrote with Jessica Stevenson.
His crisp writing and excellent acting was recognised, and when he was backed to make Shaun of the Dead – which features friends on the run from killer zombies – he didn’t disappoint.
Now Pegg (pictured) has created another super piece of action comedy and in copper Nick Angel has created one of the funniest parodies I’ve seen for awhile. Angel is a top cop who is making his colleagues in the Met look shoddy as he busts criminals left, right and centre.
So they whisk him out of the big bad city and send him to a sleepy West Country town where nothing at all ever happens ever, ever, ever.
But our boy in blue simply won’t stand for that. There must be some thing fishy going on, it is just a question of knowing where to look for it.
His new crew are a motley bunch, more use to the animal rescue aspects of detection than actually hunting down wrongdoers. His fellow officers Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) and his father Inspector Frank Butterman (Jim Broadbent) are heavily into sugary snacks as opposed to playing cops and robbers.
But, hurray! A double death in a car crash awakens his Sherlock Holmes-like suspicious mind.
And when a series of other deaths follow, our hero thinks he has a good case on his hand. Except, none of his colleagues actually do. Because suspicious deaths just do not happen in sleepy old Sandford.
The fun of the film comes in many guises. Angel and Danny are great buddy-buddy coppers, like Crockett and Tubbs, Starsky and Hutch – the joke about Somerset’s Lethal Weapon wannabes works brilliantly.
Pegg’s slightly laddish humour works, because although at times it is rather base, it is never macho. He has a great way of carrying himself and seems such an Average Joe that is very, very likeable.
Throw in a cast which includes Bill Nighy, Steve Coogan, Bill Bailey and Timothy Dalton, and Hot Fuzz will have you giggling right through. |
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