Saw the advanced screening/Q&A with Pegg & Frost in Bristol

Rating: 10/10 (15 February 2007)

Awesome film. Loads of well worked homages to action classics. Fantastic character work from a host of familiar faces; The actor Kevin Eldon, Bill Bailey, Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine, and Rafe Spall were particularly good. Some dodgy accents - Frost, you know who you are, and you wore a Bristol Rovers shirt -how could you! ;), but some very clever observations on the local mindset - Don't mess with a farmer's mother, you've been warned!
Pegg, Frost & Wright have continued in the same strong vein as Shaun of the Dead. Even stronger in fact, my girlfriend hates Shaun of the Dead but loved this. It was fast paced but still managed to establish good story continuity and a great plot - in fact its 2hr duration is balanced extremely well with gags and action a'plenty.
It was a real bonus to get to the advanced screening - free tickets, free popcorn, thanks to SeeFilmFirst - it was damn annoying we were so early in the queue but got funnelled into seats right at the front. Yes, we were three rows back from Pegg & Frost during the Q&A which was great, but we had cricks in our necks for the rest of the night..... stupid Vue cinemas.... Anyway, the guys really took the time to indulge the fans and it was much appreciated.
In many ways its a great shame that there will be no Spaced 3 but I for one was glad to hear they are staying away from the This Life +10 format, great comedies finish in their prime leaving you wanting more. What is a bigger shame is that "La Triviata" seems to have been shelved due to creative differences between Pegg & Frost and C4, and their now busy movie schedule - but if they keep turning out films of this quality the fans should still be kept happy, even if we don't see them on the small screen quite as often.