Film Review Hot Fuzz
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Film Review Hot Fuzz

Sunday, April 22, 2007 - While the film Hot Fuzz, from the same people behind Shaun of the Dead, had an interesting message, studying what happens when reputation and idealism become more important than the difference between right and wrong, it was the storytelling that is odd. I'm usually a fan of dark comedies, but there was something that just didn't seem right when it all panned out.

Nicholas Angel, played by Simon Pegg, is a young police officer that is the epitome of an overachiever, winning all sorts of commendations and having an arrest record 400% better than the others on the force. His superiors grow tired of being shown up by him, and have him transferred from the exciting streets of London to the humdrum country sleeper town of Sandford. They figured it wouldn't be that big of a deal for him, given he had recently broken up with his girlfriend and was living in a dorm with the new recruits, with all his things still packed up in boxes.

Angel, being a by-the-book type person, can't believe the way things are run in Sandford and the crimes that are overlooked. His first night in town, he checks in at a hotel run by a woman who he initially thinks calls him a fascist, but in turns out she's just realized the answer to a crossword puzzle. He returns the favor by getting the answer to another of the clues from the crossword puzzle, hag. Angel then finds himself at a local pub to enjoy a few glasses of cranberry juice, and observing several groups of youngsters drinking, Angel asks for ID and busts them, being told by the pub owners that they allow it for "the greater good."

The next day, as he meets the rest of the officers at the police station, it only gets worse, with the chief inspector Frank Butterman (Jim Broadbent) punishing his son and fellow officer, Danny (Nick Frost), by sending him to the Black Forest Ghetto, meaning the whole station house walks around eating cake all the time. Despite having the feeling that there are big crimes going on, Angel is forced to do police work such as searching for a missing swan. Murders begin happening around town, but no matter what it is, everyone passes it off as, "an accident," whether it's being beheaded in a car or being stabbed in the chest with garden shears. Angel is disturbed that everyone, the police force included, wants to just pass all this off as accidents, and not realize it for what it really is, a serial killer on the loose. Curiously, the local market owner, Simon Skinner (Timothy Dalton), always seems to be lurking close to every one of the "accidents."

Again, I like the idea and purpose behind the story of Hot Fuzz, but the storyline itself just plays out oddly. It's billed as a comedy, and while there were some definite funny parts, such as the police officer who can't talk intelligibly at all, and Angel and his new partner, Danny Butterman, being referring to as "Crockett and Tubby," the weirdness outshines the giggles, not to mention the fact that throughout, there's some pretty graphic scenes, matching that of a horror flick, not a comedy.

Yuddy Score: A Dud

-Laura Tucker





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