Off the f&*@ing chain!

Rating: 10/10 (9 June 2008)

After the genius work of Shaun of the Dead, I was excited to see Hot Fuzz, and took the opportunity to see this movie as soon as it came out.
Luckily I was not disappointed. The movie begins with PC Nick Angel (Pegg), a high-flying, intelligent London copper who is so successful that his superiors find him an embarrassment with his successes compared to them. When he leaves, he is sent to Sandford in the middle of the West Country (and miles from anywhere else), and finds himself with the job of re-capturing escaped swans, trying to cope with his new police team who usually seem to fail to take police work as seriously as he does, and working with his new partner Danny Butterman (Frost), who assumes that police work should be shooting up bad guys and car chases.
However, the bored city cop and the impressionable country bobby soon discover that their work is about to be cut out for them when several gruesome deaths begin to occur in Sandford, and that they may be linked.
It was great to see some of the people from Shaun of the Dead make a comeback (Bill Nighy for example in a bit part), and the different characters of Nick Angel and Danny Butterman make up for comedy gold, so before it all finally kicks off and bullets begin flying, you will not be bored. Added to this, the characters are brilliant, and the action scenes are hilarious, with spoofs from everything: From Hollywood action like Bad Boys 1 and 2, Point Break, and Lethal Weapon (even films like Wicker Man and The Omen) to British comedy such as the Vicar of Dibley. This is pure gold which shouldn't be missed.
Who says we Brits aren't good at making movies?