by Phillip Ellis

Created on: February 17, 2008

What's all the fuzz about?

After the runaway comedy success of Shaun of the Dead, which saw comedians Nick Frost (he's the fat one more recently in the BBC2s enjoyable Hyperdrive) and Simon Pegg (alongside Frost in the cult C4 sitcom Space' fame) sending up and paying homage to the classic zombie horror genre of the grizzly seventies, the team are reapplying the same formulae to Britain's police force here, no doubt one of many variations to come as the boys become our new Carry On team.

With Edgar Wright again directing, the guys haven't quite managed to hit the heights of the first movie here, but just about get away with it as far as entertainment goes, plenty of familiar pub gags and British slapstick humor to keep you on board, perhaps a less knowing movie made to earn a bigger audience and gross when all said and done.

There are plenty of police in-jokes and political comment on the state of the police forcesorrypolice service! , but if you're not a copper then you will need one of the excellent audio commentaries to find the joke, Pegg and Frost again reveling in hiding scenes and dialect from their favorite films in their own movies le schoolboys. This can get self-indulgent at times and some scenes seemed force and written around stuff they wanted to put in relating to those favorite movies.

The trio really enjoy making their dreams come true on screen and, like the Harry potter movies, many top names wanted to be involved this time, here the likes of Edward Woodward, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent and even Kate Blanchet turning up in cameos and star turns to give the film real ironic class British film oomph. As Edward Woodward is in the movie then the Whicker Man is inevitably sent up somewhere in the two hours, as are many other horror and cop classics, from Bad Boys to The Omen

-The plot-
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Nick Angel (Simon Pegg) is the Mets elite S019 top beat-bobby, solving 400% more crimes than any other officer in the capital, and for that heinous crime he has to be transferred out by his commanding officer (Martin Freeman of The Office), agreed on by his station chief (Steve Coogan), Chief Inspector (movie whore Bill Nighy) rubber stamping the move to stop making the force look bad. With no super cop the department can relax. But no relaxing for the residents of Sanford (normally the name of the fictional police village used in training video's for all real recruits), the small rural habitat and contender for village of the year assigned Sergeant Angel to keep

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