Hot Fuzz

Wow! I haven't seen a movie this funny for quite a while.

London super cop Nicholas Angel can't "turn off" his job. He sees everything and it given him numerous citations and an arrest rate 400% higher than anyone else. This dedication has cost him his relationship, his friends and - after four years of making the rest of the London police service look bad - his posting. It's the shock of his life when he's shipped off to a small village. And believe it or not we've been laughing out loud several times by this point in the film.

His new posting has the lowest crime rate in the nation, misdemeanors are allowed to slide and town's most wanted is a runaway goose. But Angel continues to "see everything" and suspect everyone and when accidents begin to claim the lives of prominent townsfolk, he's certain its murder, but no one believes him.

Not only is there a prodigious quantity of jokes in this film - there is a brilliant diversity of spoof, verbal and visual jokes and strong character humour. The dialogue and action are fantastic and the casting is brilliant. The leads are great but I loved Timothy Dalton as the debonair and suspicious grocer, "I'm a slasher. I'm a slasher and I must be stopped. I slash prices," and Jim Broadbent as the village chief inspector, "And he had one thing you haven't got. A great big, bushy beard."

I'll say no more except this: It's an R rated film because of several scenes of graphic violence and fair bit of language. The violence is infrequent and cartoonish when it arrives. It's not presented to disturb or create real horror and this seemed relatively inoffensive to me. We watched it with Thayne, but afterwards were thinking we could have let Analena watch it also - this sort of thing really depends on the individual. The film is definitely one we'll be adding to our library.