Good and Smart

Rating: 9/10 (12 February 2014)

It is very hard to make a good comedy, but to make good and smart comedy takes a real genius. " Hot Fuzz" is a brilliant parody on both Hollywood action nonsense and the cozy village fairytale. The two, at first sight incompatible ingredients, mash beautifully in this hilariously funny movie. Fanatical, by the book city cop gets transferred into a picturesque green paradise, full of dimwits. Add a generous sprinkle of strange deaths, murders masked as accidents and it's a winning proposition. What makes this comedy stand out is a marvelous dead pan that it's played with. The first class cast plays these part as seriously as they would perhaps "Macbeth". That level of conviction gives the movie that extra punch and wins your heart while you exercise your laughing muscles.