By the power of Grey Skull, this movie is frickin' hilarious!!!

Rating: 9/10 (22 July 2008)

This is the story of a straight-arrow police officer, Nicholas Angel, who is reassigned to a village with both a high-weirdo and high-accident quotient. Our Hero, Sgt. Angel, is the only one who suspects foul play. From here, we get the most hilarious send-up of buddy-cop movies since "Starsky & Hutch." The British just have this way of making so many goofy and improbable things happen in a comedy while having the actors play it completely straight and true without any winking to the camera. And it just clicks. That is what I love about this movie. How the characters range in their broadness and earnestness. Never is this more evident than in the re-teaming of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who are Britain's answer to Abbott and Costello. Pegg's almost cartoonish (ALMOST being the key word here)earnestness and Frost's childlike ignorance are just absolutely irresistible.
I also like how they totally mocked the conventions of modern-day American action movies (The one-liners, the loud effects, and the zoom-ups; so Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott) and also made them the centerpiece of Frost's quirks without banging us over the head with it. In fact, all the character were given quirks (Doris is my favorite)that are on-screen just long enough to make you laugh but not enough to wear out their welcome. Director Edgar Wright doesn't assume you have a short-attention span.
The violence is fairly intense but it serves to amuse rather than horrify and it works for the most part like in "Shaun of the Dead". This also doesn't get too excessive. On top of that, the action totally kicks ass! Not only are our leads funny but they make more charismatic action leads than most of the hunks and wrestlers out there.
My only problem is how the climaxes keep getting piled on each other at the end which I guess is supposed to poke fun at how some action films go on too long but it got somewhat redundant. Other than that, this is one of the best comedies of 2007 and I strongly recommend it especially for Wright/Pegg fans.