Fuzzy Stuff

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2008)

This one is pretty easy to review: a solid comedy. Worth catching on DVD or TV, but not quite something I'd need to see on the big screen. If you've never seen anything by Wright or Pegg you're in for a treat. If you've seen Shaun Of The Dead then basically it's the same ticket, albeit somewhat less successfully so.
One major snag of this movie is that it's difficult to empathize with the lead character Angel -- he's a bit of a stiff. Whereas Shaun was instantly congenial.
In the DVD commentary Simon Pegg repeatedly mentions that he didn't want to "overegg the pudding" -- I think that he ended up underegging it. There are many good jokes in Hot Fuzz, but I would have preferred a barrage -- the rapid stream that Shaun threw at you.