Hot Fuzz Critic Reviews

Hot Fuzz deploys the same mix of genre conventions, slapstick and old-school British humor that made "Shaun of the Dead" such a dumb-but-good romp.Read the full review

Though it's no "Monty Python," Hot Fuzz is a clever, over-the-top marriage of mayhem and merriment.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

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

A little too long and suffers from a sagging midsection when the level of exposition becomes laborious, but the spectacularly entertaining final 30 minutes compensates for a lot of flaws.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

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

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