Comments on: Caught by the Hot Fuzz

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:41:08 +0000

I couldn't bear to read the spoilers, so I merely skimmed the review lest I accidentally learn some crucial plot element or read a joke that would spoil my cinematic pleasure, but I was glad to read your thumbs up at the end!
I can't wait to go see it this weekend. Everything these guys do is superb. 'Spaced' was a joy, 'Shaun' was inspired and hopefully this will be just the ticket for a night out with my wife at the flicks.
Anticipation is a wonderful thing!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:32:51 +0000

So, Suw, do you still intend to see Hot Fuzz with all your friends one by one? If so, when will it be my turn?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:25:56 +0000

First heard about Hot Fuzz here on this blog, put it to the back of my mind expecting to see it quite a long way in the future – and now here it is, almost upon us.
I haven't been so childishly excited about a film for years. Rather pathetically I printed out some copies of the posters a couple of weeks ago and put them up in my office.
Having lived in a shared North London house for years, the experience of which was recorded with uncanny accuracy (kinda) in Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead; and now – as a sophisticated Londoner who inexplicably finds himself policing in a sleepy west-country town (kinda) I almost feel I'm due some royalties
Unfortunately though, whilst walking out of the cinema at the weekend having seen Flushed Away, my two-year-old ran up to a big Hot Fuzz poster and pointed at Nick Frost, shouting “Daddy!!!”. I don't think she means I share his comic timing.
I will be going to see it next week with some friends from work. I'm going to have to resist the urge to wear uniform. Otherwise I might end up signing autographs as Nick Frost.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:14:49 +0000

And of course, there were some lovely references to british policing today – liberal use of 'official vocab' and so on. We learn early on that Angel is a hard and fast policeman (his first night in the village ends up with a dozen arrests).
So as angel softens to village life, those around him also step up their game – and end up being able to work together. We learn early on that there is a greater good – only to discover it's not the same portrayed.
Fantastic cameos by many comedy greats – though we all need to give martin freeman a collective clip-round-the-ear for an awful haircut – and timothy dalton's re-appearance in my life didn't seem as boring as i thought it would – though he didn't quite pull off bergerac quite as well as nettles, suw is absolutely right at the stylistic misappropriation!
pegg and wright both describe this film as british cop film meets american cop film and they fight it out at the end. That's a pretty succinct approximation of the film.
and yes, the faceplant of the old woman… it just wasn't right.