Timothy Dalton is surprisingly excellent at being hammy and creepy. Nick Frost is an utterly brilliant comedy actor.

Nice gag: the bit at the start where Pegg speaks to his superiors, and each superior that appears is played by an actor slightly higher up the comedy hierarchy than the one before.

It pisses all over Shaun of the Dead, but possibly this is because I like silly buddy cop movies more than zombie movies.

Can’t wait to see this, I’m going to try and find someone to go with on Sunday. I prefer zombie movies to buddy cop movies, so it will interesting to see how I rate it compared to SOTD.

dammit, this ain’t out in america until mid-april, but HA HA we get the Reno 911 movie before you do.

i’d rather see hot fuzz. i can’t imagine where the reno 911 movie’s really going to go with the premise, you know?

SWAN!

This is great—about as good as Shaun of the Dead I think. It’s a bit slower at the beginning with all the mystery stuff but from the bit where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost double team and really kick some arse it’s a million times better.

SOTD was wonderful for the first 40 minutes before inexplicably lapsing into direness when it tried to be a genuine horror movie. It should have been a one-off hour-long Spaced Xmas special.

‘dont go bein a twat now’

i’m off to see this Right Now :D

“I think you’d have been a great muppet”

I already want to go and see this again.

SOTD was wonderful for the first 40 minutes before inexplicably lapsing into direness when it tried to be a genuine horror movie.

haha, you’ll hate it halfway through (sorry, wasn’t timing it) when Hot Fuzz tries to be a cop movie in the way that SotD trying was a horror movie (i.e. not really trying at all, just taking the piss massively).

It’s a funny film, but I way preferred Shaun, maybe because I found the characters easier to identify with, or maybe it just seemed breezier and fresher. Hot Fuzz is a bit too carefully constructed and layered at times, it saps the film’s energy somewhat. Anyway, it still had lots o laughs (the loudest from me was probably at the head-splatting, which makes me bad).

I think I preferred Shaun. The hyper-kinetic Michael Bay-style action sequences at the end weren’t that well handled and did my head in a bit.

That said I enjoyed it a lot. My friend is from a village like this one—ie pubs full of underage drinkers or empty.

No one yet’s mentioned the similarity to League of Gentleman, one of the few recent comedy shows it didn’t borrow a cast member from.

I’m from a village like this one; I wondered if they were trying too hard this time to be America-friendly, unlike SOTD where it just happened anyway.

it wasn’t really like LoG. “village ppl be being odd: is prior art that the film directly refs (straw dogs, wicker man, but oh so many others). LoG did that too with their own spin of course.

i think i like SOTD and this equally; SOTD *was* a bit spaced: the movie — not necessarily a bad thing, but you can’t do that forever.

I am from exactly “this village” before moving to less yokelified places. Being Wells in Somerset where I grewed up in (actually the smallest city in England, rather than a village but that’s beside the point). I have yet to see this but should probably go on my own since I’m sure to end up pointing at the screen going “I live there”, “That’s my pub—the owner’s a wanker” and other irritating things all the way through. I have heard very good things and the somerfield raid clip I saw on top gear tonight looked supoib.

It’s a great film! My favourite line: the above-mentioned “Don’t go bein’ a twat now” Favourite visual joke: the police car hitting the fire hydrant in the model village.

yes, so many good bits: you couldn’t have a swan in a British film without ref to the “breaking a man’s arm”, for example!

and the model village double entendre too. There are so many Oxon-centric roffle-tastic things to this film...there are so many villages like that round these ‘ere parts (hello Eynsham) there is an ACTUAL PLACE called Sandford just down the road and there is a model village in the ‘not miniature’ sense too, called Nuneham Courtenay.

We love our ‘angin’ baaaaaskets round ‘ere too.....

i watched the first season of Big Train again last night. Pegg is such a fantastic comedy actor. Can’t wait to see this movie

Paddy Considine and Rafe Spall were both really really good in this as well. I’d liked to have seen more of them. “If you want to be the big man in a small town, fuck off to the model village”; “Ooooh, ‘muurrrrderrrrrr’!”.

“By the power of Grayskull”

Sitting in the third row of a gigantic movie theater I really got the sense that this is a movie made for DVD, not the big screen. At times it seemed like EVERYTHING was shot in close-up. Agreed about the action sequences—very difficult to follow at times and hurty on the eyes.

Favorite running gag was sidekick-as-love-interest, especially at the end when Pegg looks over at Wright and goes “y’know, I think I could stay here awhile.”

I didn’t think it even came close to SotD, though. I actually felt scared in SotD, and when Wright’s character meets its end it was (for me) a really touching moment. Nothing like that here (for me).

You mean Frost, Tracer.

Woops, is that the guy’s name? The chunky sidekick.

I noticed, in another one of those EXTREME close-ups, that the chunky sidekick has really exquisite lips.

(Yes OK I see now. NICK FROST I confused you with the DIRECTOR ov the FILLUM.)

I think Wright seemd a lot more confident in his direction in this than SOTD. And Nick frost seemed to have a much better role in this than in SOTD

I liked when the guy had a bit of the church fall on him, knock his head off, and stick into his torso while he staggered around. HURR HURR HURR.