A comedy's supposed to be funny, not a serious drama!

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2007)

I honestly believe that the makers of this film should be sued for false advertising. Every major commercial and ad out there makes Hot Fuzz out to be a comedy, but surprisingly enough, it isn't. In fact, there's barely any humor in here. Most of the film is an apparent murder mystery that turns into this huge town conspiracy/cover-up thing, and it's actually taken in very dark and not at all humorous tone. It's sort of ironic: Transformers never took itself seriously at all (and Spider-Man 3 not very much for that matter), while this wound up taking itself so seriously it forgot to be fun or humorous, as if the director up and decided he'd actually rather be making a very dour, grim and gritty film rather than a light-hearted romp like the trailer shows. If the rest of Edgar Wright's films are like this, I don't want to bother with another one. I want a comedy that's supposed to be a comedy, not a drama that's supposed to be a comedy.