Perhaps you like a movie that has hot man on bird action in it:
Or maybe you like movies that have lots of shooting of guns but the violence is very cartoony:
Maybe you like movies where Paddy Consindine plays a loutish oafish Detective that torments the hero played by Simon Pegg?
If you like all those things then have I got a film for you, it's called Hot Fuzz.
I finally watched this movie last night and I feckin' loved it. It's from the team who brought you Shaun of the Dead, which I also loved.This time around Pegg plays a super uptight cop from London who's sent to rural Sandford where the action is almost non existent. He pretty pissed about being sent there until he uncovers some sinister stuff. I'm not going to delve any further in the plot that that so as not to spoil it for anyone who has not seen this yet.
The film is funny, smart, and well done all the way around. It's got great performances by the leads and the cast of the usual suspects in modern British comedies, Martin Freeman, Olivia Coleman, Steve Coogan, and others that you'll recognize when you see them.
I loved all the inside jokes and the references, some subtle and others not so subtle, to other films. And I'm not talking about all the cop movies they talk about in the film itself. This movie pays homage to the westerns of Sam Peckinpah, the Asian gangster films of John Woo, and even films like Godzilla, and I'm referring to the Japanese versions of Godzilla not the horrid American remake of a few years ago. The homages they do to the films they mention repeatedly also are fun and funny.
Seriously, if you haven't seen this movie yet, or if you've been ambivalent about seeing it, then get off your ass and see it sometime. It's fun way to spend a couple of hours.
