Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Rave: Hot Fuzz

I tried not to get my hopes too high, given how great I thought Shaun of the Dead was. Today, I finally got around to seeing Hot Fuzz. A 3:30 show with a full five other people in the audience, at the theaters at the Providence Place Mall, on a hot and beautiful afternoon in Rhode Island.

Worth it, people. Totally worth it. Multiple laugh out loud moments, and enough to make you smile - puns, cop genre in-jokes, piss jokes - to carry the film. Charming touches abound - including a couple of well-placed Kinks songs, a wink to Spiderman 3, the in-crowd cameos by Steve Coogan, Bill Nighy, and Cate Blanchett, and the great sub-creature impersonation that Nick Frost copped from MP at some point. Not to mention that I found both Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead to be pretty fun as genre movies, themselves, what with their liberal employment of shotguns, spattering blood, jumpy editing, and gruesome deaths.

Definitely see it. If not for yourself, then do it for the greater good.
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