Gruesome and Gut-Bustingly Funny

Rating: 10/10 (22 June 2008)

I admit to being a bit skeptical when I first saw this movie - thinking, from watching the trailers, that it would be a corny, overly-violent piece of funny junk. I was (much to my delight) dreadfully mistaken. It was, indeed, overly-violent, but it was truly hilarious and a great movie besides.
Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and featuring Jim Broadbent, Hot Fuzz is the story of Nicholas Angel (Pegg), a super-popular, super-talented London cop who, due to the jealousy of his peers, is transfered to the rural small-town of Stanford. The sleepy village, and Angel's new partner, Danny Butterman (Frost), seems to offer little excitement, until a series of suspicious deaths occur. Angel, ever the inquisitive one, suspects murder, but when no one but Danny believes his theories, he begins to delve deeper into the dark secrets of the seemingly dull Stanford. The London veteran soon learns that you don't have to be in a big city to deal with big crime.
This movie, full of cop jokes, hilarity, and the most bloody murders you'll ever see in a film, is one of the best cop movies you'll ever see.