Hot Fuzz
2007
****½
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Rafe Spall, Bill Bailey, Timothy Dalton, Edward Woodward, Billie Whitelaw, Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's follow-up to Shaun of the Dead is another parody. This consistently hilarious comedy is equally gory but it pokes fun at buddy cop movies (Point Break and Bad Boys 2 are the main reference points). Pegg plays an uptight and overachieving London police officer who gets transferred to the village of Sandford where he's partnered with a shlub obsessed with cop movies. When he begins to suspect that there is a serial killer loose in their crime-free Village of the Year, nobody believes him. The story is inventive and full of surprises, and the film ends in an entertaining and spectacularly over-the-top final shootout.
