Thoughts on 2007: Hot Fuzz

I liked Shaun of the Dead. But I loved Hot Fuzz.

For most people it's other way around. Sure I like zombie movies and all, who doesn't? But being a child of the late 80's and 90's made me part of that special generation who were slathered up with high-cost action movie nonsense. And it was kinda fun. I'm glad to see that Edgar Wright thinks so too. He took that love of the high octane action movie and transported it into his sleepy little home town. It's the kind of thing every little kid imagined, walking down their suburban street fighting off bad guys with two guns blazing. It's a fun idea and and Wright pulls it off with the kind of seriousness needed to make it work. It's a tiny wonder in that way. What's more is that the film works as many genres. It's a tense murder-in-the-manor mystery, it's an out-and-out comedy, it's a satire, it's a horror piece, it's an turbo-charged thrill ride, it's a hyphen-laden-description, and it's bloody as all hell... It just so happens to be all those things at once. It doesn't genre hop, it genre blends. It's all stirred into one delicious goo of pulp movie that earns it's originality from it's devotion to it's subjects. Counting their work on Spaced it would seem that Pegg, Frost, and Wright are on a muthaf'in roll. Can't wait for more.

Oh yeah, and it has the best Jump kick ever.

And oh yeah yeah, don't miss a great cameo (look at her eyes)

Recommendtion: DAMN SKIPPY. [turns screaming and fires gun into the air]