A parody of movie/TV shows about cops & bad guys

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2007)

The "Inspector Morse" or Helen Mirren's series on PBS is about as far as I go in this police genre but "Hot Fuzz" is a good parody of all cop films, clashes between the cops and bad guys. Having seen few of them, I missed the many scene quotes but could readily believe there were hundreds. The film is like a Saturday Night Live or Monty Python view of the genre.
As others have mentioned, the first third sets up the viewer for the following two-thirds.
While there is considerable violence, it's so over the top it creates no flinching. Guns blaze, hundreds of rounds of ammo are fired, and no one drops.
I enjoyed the subtle(?) twitting of a particular social group about their desire to have everything "nice and in good taste" so it's a cardinal sin to depart from that. That segment of English society has no monopoly on such a view, of course, but here they represent that attitude in cultures other than just the UK.
Good fun.