Hot Fuzz Critic Reviews

Everything an action-comedy should be. It achieves through parody what most films in the genre can't accomplish straight.Read the full review

Wright and Pegg are storytellers who weave their naughty bits into genuine characters and a plot. It's a ridiculous plot, but one that's absolutely in the spirit of the films they're satirizing.Read the full review

In the very funny cop comedy Hot Fuzz, overachieving London police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) commits a very British sin: He's too good.Read the full review

A sustained genre parody that's equally funny but (maybe in deference to the genre) much more pumped up.Read the full review

Really, do we need another dumb action movie to remind us how dumb action movies are?...Yes. We absolutely do.Read the full review

Since Mr. Wright and Mr. Pegg are essentially parodying self-parodies, they have also smartly kinked up their conceit by setting most of the film in a sleepy village that might as well be called Ye Old English Towne, thereby wedding one of the most irritating British exports to one of the most absurd American ones. Think of it as "The Full Monty" blown to smithereens.Read the full review

It's to the "Lethal Weapon" movies what left-hand driving on a country lane is to a freeway chase: pokey, more than a little daft, but with a bloody surprise around every hedge.Read the full review

It's a blast.Read the full review

Plays like two films in one, and succeeds on both levels.Read the full review