Makes the Never Ending Story seem short

Rating: 3/10 (1 July 2007)

Hot Fuzz is about an over performing police "officer", Nicholas Angel, who is relocated to the sticks, because he's making his fellow officers look bad.
Being ever vigilant in his duties, Angel waste no time beginning to enforce law in his new location. Soon he begins to discover something deeper, that the entire town is run by a cult who always act in the greater good.
His buffoon partner, Butterworth, helps Angel turn off his Terminator like officer persona, as well as defeat the evil cult.
Now, I realize this movie is supposed to be a comedy. I suppose partially a spoof maybe like the much more entertaining Scary Movie series. Unfortunately, this movie falls short in the humor department. But it's really a mess, it's a comedy that's not really that funny. It's a drama with out any real character development. It's a spoof of well, I guess it's own genre of a film (crap?).
The ending of the movie last 45 minutes, I swear, and by the end I couldn't wait for it to finally...finally......finally.....finally be over. Yes, I realize that some may have found this spoof like, or a satirical commentary on typical horror movie endings that the bad guys keep coming back. Here, it doesn't work, it just becomes irritating.
Also yes I know the really funny, clever, witty names Angel, Stake, Messenger are all supposed to demarcate a point of humor every time their spoken but this "humor" simply isn't funny and is as dryer than a cardboard box. 3/10