by Everett Jensen

Created on: July 08, 2008

Hot Fuzz
directed by Edgar Wright
written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg
starring Simon Pegg, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Timothy Dalton, Olivia Coleman.

Oh, those bad mother f'ers from "Shaun of the Dead" have collided once more and hilarity does indeed ensue...

Nick Angel is a young London supercop from London (Pegg) who is so good that he's making his fellow officers look bad. He is sent to an unassuming tiny little village and immediately makes his presence felt by apprehending a group of miscreants gallivanting about committing petty crimes that are typically overlooked in the community. Immediately he's loathed for his zealotry and his righteous approach to all matters of right and wrong. He struggles to fit in with the other nonchalant officers who all seem rather lackadaisical regarding anything approaching crime. When a series of "accidents" begin taking the lives of community members, Nick becomes suspicious and begins to view them as homicides. This does nothing to warm his co-workers over who would, as they always have done, look at them as what they appear to be with no further investigation needed. Soon, however, Nick is embroiled in a conspiracy that involves the entire community and a sinister town planning committee who is determined to maintain the villages status as the areas best.

Nick is airtight in his approach to corruption and other criminal activities. He's relentless and unable to compromise based on his unbendable principles. He arrests a man for driving drunk only to realize the following morning that its his partner Danny Butterman (Frost). Nick and Danny eventually bond over pints at the local pub and their interaction fuels much of the films humor. Danny wants to be like Nick and assumes he can pick up some tips about how to fight like his filmic cop heroes. Danny wants to know what its like to shoot somebody and drills Nick about his previous exploits. Nick once shot somebody and thereafter swore off weapons but these new developments quash that resolution and pit him with just about every member of the community. Everyone in the village packs heat and this is comically expressed when Nick and Danny find themselves in an exaggerated, extensive shootout with the entire downtown sector.

Danny's Father is Inspector Frank Butterman (Broadbent), who takes a rather passive approach to crime and maintains that there hasn't been a murder in the village in twenty years. As Nick later finds out this is because all

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