“The idea of taking that landscape that you see in such films as Saving Grace and Calendar Girls, not that there’s anything wrong with these films, films that get shown to Americans and they say, “Aw, isn’t England nice?” That’s where I grew up, it’s very scenic and picture-postcardy and the idea of starting like that and then shit blowing up appealed to me” – Edgar Wright – director & co-writer of Hot Fuzz (From interview in The Guardian).
Even in its a dubbed version, Hot Fuzz is British comedy at its best – can’t wait to see the original version on DVD. The idea of British cops in a sedate English village aping Hollywood buddy-action movies is inspired. The scene where ace cop (Nick Pegg) fights one of the villains in a model village is one of the funniest scenes I’ve seen in ages. It made me realise that through living in Italy I have completely missed out on the TV comedy ‘Spaced’ (co-written and starring Pegg) and the Hot Fuzz team’s previous zombie spoof ‘Shaun Of The Dead’. Thanks to YouTube I can now plug these gaps.
