by Lisa Hemsley

Created on: July 14, 2010   Last Updated: July 15, 2010

Simon Pegg plays the character of Nicholas Angel who is an exceptional police man working in the heart of London. His bosses decided that he is doing his job too well and making them all look bad so they send his to a quiet country village called, Sanford. Nicholas arrives there to find it very boring and the police officers who are already there completely stupid.

Nicholas befriends his work colleague and partner Danny, played by Nick Frost and they do help each other. Danny shows Nicholas that there is a life outside of work and Danny tells Nicholas the tales of his exciting life in London.

Nicholas starts to find that there is something amiss in the village when ‘accidents’ start to happen which he believes are not ‘accidents’. Will the other police officers believe him or will they think he is being daft?

This film has been given quite a lot of hype and good reviews so I was expecting a lot from it. I have to say that I was slightly disappointed as there was not as many laughs as I was expecting. Pegg played the role of Nicholas Angel very well and I did believe in his character and thought he suited the uniform. I thought he worked well with the script and gave a good funny performance.

The supporting actors and actresses were all very good and added a lot to the film. Nick Frost was great as the dumb fat partner and I liked the chemistry with him and Pegg. They worked very well together and they seemed to bounce off each other with the jokes and humour. I enjoyed the performances from the village people and did spot a few familiar faces. They all added a great deal of depth to the film instead of it just being centred around the main character. I particularly enjoyed the old policeman who Angel could not understand as he reminded me so much of (sorry if you ever read this!) my father in law as he speaks so quietly I always have to ask hubby what he said!

The village and setting was great and all very realistic. The film also had a great soundtrack which both me and hubby enjoyed.

I thought the storyline was good, but it did go a bit over the top during the later part of the film but this did not bother me as the film was not supposed to be a serious one and it also added to the humour of the film. I found that the twist in the ending was good as I though from the first half that I had worked out who the murderer was, but I was completely wrong and liked the fact it was not predictable.

The DVD which I have does have some bonus material which includes:-

4 Audio Commentaries
Outtakes
Theatrical Trailer and TV spot
The Man who would be Fuzz
Hot Funk
Fuzz-o-Meter
Storyboard
Flick Book: The Other Side

We did not fancy watching the bonus material but we did manage the outtakes and found a few of them to be quite funny.

The DVD has a running time of 1 hour and 56 minutes which I felt to be slightly too long for this type of film and thought it could have been edited down to less than 1 hour and a half but that it just my personal opinion. The certificate on this film is 15 which I feel is suitable as there is a lot of bad language and to my surprise a lot of comedy violence which I will admit to not finding funny as it was happening on screen. I found it was a shock to me to see this type of violence in a comedy and don’t think I would have been so keen on watching the film if I would have known, because I don’t like even the slightest scary film (yes I know I am a softy and sad!)

We paid £5 for the DVD from Tesco, which I feel was a great price. I would recommend this film as it does have some good funny bits but nothing to have you belly laughing and some parts are so daft they just make you laugh anyway!

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