The Difficult Second Album

Rating: Null/10 (15 February 2007)

For Wright, Pegg and Frost this is a case of the difficult second album. Hot Fuzz is fun but fails to match Shaun of the Dead's genius.
Shaun's greatness lay in its characters believability as real, but in hot fuzz the characters are either cut outs from the cop actioner (as with Pegg's character) or west country comedy stereotypes.
What is most disappointing is that the majority of the big comic payoffs were spoiled in the trailers and so all I was left with were west country accent jibes.
The relationship between Pegg and Frost's characters is also no match for that in Shaun and Frost rather steals the movie from Pegg who's character is just no fun!