A comedy worthy of praise!

Rating: 9/10 (15 February 2007)

PREDICTION:
"This is going to top Shaun of the Dead, HANDS DOWN! Action, violence, and cornettos!" Even though I thought this, I still had no idea what to expect. I was particularly excited about watching this as I had gone to the Premier of Hot Fuzz the day before, and met Nick Frost, Edgar Wright and more, I SHOOK THEIR HANDS!!! ARRR!!!
PERFORMANCE:
Simon Pegg is the star of the show, a dramatic difference from his Shaun of the Dead (SOTD) character to his Hot Fuzz one, Nicholas Angel. In SOTD, he was a lazy, but trying-his-best individual, chasing after his girlfriend in a zombie infested town. In Hot Fuzz, he plays a serious, hard working, athletic top-cop moved to a quiet little village. He portrays his characters emotions particularly well, and yet still putting across the movie's comedy theme. Nick Frost is pretty much the same type of character in Hot Fuzz as he played in SOTD. He plays Danny Butterman, a policeman who doesn't do much at all but eat cake and cornettos. This character is funny all the way through, showing his emotions well and yet his eyes windows a secret world of pain within him, which is essential later on in the storyline. Timothy Dalton plays the main suspect of the movie, and he is a good at portraying the easy-going "bad-guy". Guest Appearance includes Bill Nighy, who made a longer appearance in SOTD and the hilarious Bill Bailey.
BASIC STORYLINE:
Nicholas Angel, (Simon Pegg) is the top-cop in London, making all the other cops look bad. To stop themselves from looking lazy, the police department, as you do, sends the top-cop to a sleepy village away from London. He meet the police dept. he will be working with and PC.Danny Butterman (Nick Frost)and is told that the village is the safest and most friendly village in the country. However, Angel begins to suspect otherwise. After 4 "accidents" occur during his stay, Angel immediately suspects Murder, and the police force there just laugh at him, stating that "everyone has their accidents."
From there, the movie soon spirals into a theme much like "The Wicker Man", where the neighbourhood watch (including Timothy Dalton) are basically the murderers, and its up to the police (and the local youths) to take them down.
As soon as I saw Simon Pegg equip himself with a hell of a lot of ammo and guns, I was laughing with anticipation, excitement and humour at the ridiculousness of the events that were going on before my eyes! I will not spoil the ending, but I will say one word that makes me smile just thinking about it: Swan.
CONCLUSION:
Okay, it did not meet up to my high expectations, but then again, no movies do when I anticipate them for ages. It is a hilarious movie that definitely deserves your cinema ticket money. If you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, you will love this movie. If you have seen Bad Boys 2, you will love this movie. If you like detective/police/action movies, you will love this movie. I love the fact that both Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead was focused on the suburbs or London like Surrey, for instance, instead of America or cities or countrysides. I hope they keep making movies in the same location, so people can connect with movies more unlike todays typical trash.
God bless you, Edgar Wright (director), keep making films like these and you will be a millionaire in no time!