At last! A reason to be proud to be a Brit!

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2007)

I've seen a bunch of movies in the last couple of weeks, mostly because I'm going offshore to work for a while and won't have access to a cinema (lots of DVDs though). I had to get my movie fix in advance for a whole month! I'm an addict. I watch movies for lots for different reasons, entertainment, education, to be moved, to be frightened, to be transported away from the everyday dull reality of life, and in the last few weeks I've seen The Wind that Blows the Barley, Hoax, 300, Music and Lyrics and The Lives of Others, all satisfying in their own way, and for many different reasons.
But rarely do I watch a movie which makes me feel patriotic! (Quite the opposite, mostly I feel that the Brits have a lot to feel bad about......see my review of The Wind that Blows the Barley and The Proposition) But Hot Fuzz made me nostalgic for a country I left 10 years ago. I saw the movie in a mainstream cinema in California, which was completely full, the audience were in hysterics, and everyone clapped enthusiastically at the end! I felt positively proud to be a Brit!! No other country could possibly have made Hot Fuzz. It is quite perfect. A parody that is more than just a series of skits, it is classy, hilariously funny, well written, very well made and utterly British. Hot Fuzz contains every cliché you have ever seen in a cop movie, woven into a wonderfully nutty story line, and it's perfectly acted and edited. I loved Shaun of the Dead, this is even better and deserves to be a huge hit.
This, I think, is Wallace and Grommitt for grown ups, with the same very British sense of humour and self parody. There isn't that much wrong with a nation which can take the mickey out of itself so well.
Oh God I'm getting homesick...................!!