Great Action Comedy

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2008)

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are a perfect showcase of British comedy at the moment, and how to make a good film. This film has some of Britain's brightest comedy talent along with some good actors such as Timothy Dalton.
The plot of the film is Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), is London's best police officer. He is so good he makes the rest of the Metropolian police look bad and he is transfered to Sandford, the safety village in Britain. However the village was hiding some dark secrets and has a high 'accident' rate. Angel believed that it was Simon Skinner (Timothy Dalton), responsible for the accidents, but the true was far more darker then that and gives the film a Wicker Man feel.
The comedy in the film is good and is a mix of good jokes, slapstick, visual gaps and parody. It isn't like Scary Movie or Epic Movie where those films just make fun of other films, but parodies clichés and famous scenes and pays respect to those films, like Shaun of the Dead did to the George A. Romero zombie films. It was written and well performed, and adds to my belief when British comedy is done well it is the best in world. They are also little Easter Eggs in the film, such as when Danny Butterman (Nick Forst) was looking through the bargain bin DVDs in the supermarket you see a Shaun of the Dead DVD in there. I also liked it that Danny was a Bristol Rovers fan, especially when I found out Bristol City refused to allow the filmmakers use their shirt.
They is one warning about this film, it is extremely violence and some people might not like that. I personally enjoyed it, especially at the end with Angel and Skinner.