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...This time they've got a story about a city policeman exiled to an ostensibly law-abiding Gloucestershire town. Officer Nick Angel (Pegg) is just too good, too tough and righteous for his London superiors. So he's "promoted" to a post in Sandford, where the crime rate is minimal and everyone radiates bonhomie - except for some of Nick's fellow officers, who think the by-the-book cop is too suspicious of local customs. As the avuncular chief (Jim Broadbent) tells him, "You come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven...
...Fuzz, written by the English team of Simon Pegg (the movie's star) and Edgar Wright (its director), who did the zombie comedy of manners Shaun of the Dead. That film was a Molotov cocktail of genres: an Anglo-American combustion of romantic Brit comedies like Notting Hill and the U.S. zombie genre so robustly exhumed in Night of the Living Dead. Or, as Wright and Pegg pitched it: "Richard Curtis shot through the head by George Romero...
...Inhabiting the movies-only aesthetic of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (to whose Grindhouse double feature Wright contributed a funny mock-horror trailer), Wright and Pegg have topped Shaun of the Dead by trans(atlantic)planting a whole gaggle of genres: the English-village comedy, the Wicker Man strain of rural horror, any number of Brit police TV series and its main reference point, the Hollywood action film. But the thing to cherish - and I hope I won't scare you away with this - is how bloody English it is. By which I mean, bloody funny...
...Sellers, Beyond the Fringe and the Beatles (whom we saw as essentially a musical comedy team) and culminating in Monty Python's Flying Circus. A lot of American kids got a lot of their sense of humor from these inspired sources; and so, on the evidence, did Wright and Pegg. Shaun of the Dead was shot at Ealing, and takes its skewed vision of English community from the films made their more than a half-century before. Hot Fuzz has much the quirky vibe of Nick Park's stop-motion animated comedies of rural English life. Only this...
...itemize the myriad Hollywood references in Hot Fuzz; the exegetes of Internet Movie Database have already done that. I'll just say that, to judge from the citations here, Wright and Pegg's favorite movie auteurs are ... themselves. The film teems with lines and situations from Shaun of the Dead. "What's the matter, Dann - never taken a shortcut before?" says Pegg to Frost before vaulting over some backyard fences; same as in the earlier film. Or, one guy: "You want anything at the shop?" Other guy: "Cornetto." Or, Frost (with inane bravado): "I'll drive." Also, on a quick...