We went to see Hot Fuzz the other night. It’s a British movie about a London policeman who is so good, he makes the rest of the force look bad, and they quickly reassign him to a sleepy town in the country. But, just as he’s resigned himself to a quiet life in the with a cadre of bumbling village policemen, a series of suspicious accidents lead him to believe not all is as it seems in the so-called “perfect village”.
It’s pretty goofy, but works quite well, with the main character basically functioning as a straight-man for all the comedy around him. My only complaint is that it became increasingly surreal as it went along, which actually weakened it. In the early going it’s easy to believe that the main character really is a straight-laced London cop trying to confront the quirkiness that surrounds him, but as things spiral off into craziness, the movie loses some of the energy that made it compelling, and it just becomes silly.
Still, it’s got plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, and the jokes come pretty rapid-fire at times. It was pretty entertaining.