Good cops!

Rating: 8/10 (30 September 2012)

One of the funniest modern comedies I've seen in ages, the UK teaching the US (are you watching Messrs Stiller and Sandler?), brilliantly spoofing both buddy-buddy cop blockbuster movies of the 90's and the older established Agatha Christie-type whodunnit murder mystery in the sleepy village by ramming them together with some force.
Simon Pegg does his best Daniel Craig as the all-action, married-to-the-job big-city supercop who teams up with the local Superintendent's son in the wannabe village-of-the- year Sandford, where he tangles with pretty much all the local dignitaries to solve a baffling series of spectacularly gory accidents or should I say collisions.
The gags come thick and fast with nary a drop in the pacing, director Wright using Bourne-like speed-cutting and multiple angle shots for maximum effect, really getting a chance to stretch out in the concluding car-chase and shoot-out at Somerfields.
Pegg and Nick Frost are great, with their reluctant bromance, while the likes of Jim Broadbent, Billie Whitelaw and especially Timothy Dalton all get to join in the fun too. Throw in a brilliantly trashy (Sweet, T Rex even Cozy Powell!) soundtrack and you've got a well-nigh laugh-a-minute high-octane comedy which pulls out all the stops.
Very, very funny indeed!