Hot Fuzz

As citizens of humanity, we are regularly treated to a fumbling kind of comedy that is completely unintentional. I'm talking about comedy that is born of someone or a group of someones trying to do something epic, powerful, socially resonant and lasting, only to fail spectacularly with an awesome kind of oblivious self-righteousness. Because it can be argued that we encounter this kind of comedy far more often than we do the other winning, well-earned kind, there is a genuine reason to celebrate when the promise of something genuinely funny is afoot. Enter 'Hot Fuzz:' Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's studied spectacle of cops going completely apeshit at the slightest of provocations. This, like 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' (see 1 post below), is one of those too-rare miracles. Funny intent = funny result. I've watched these about 10 times each today. We pray solemnly for locker room nudity and plain-view vomiting in the full length feature.

Hot Fuzz - TRAILER 01

Hot Fuzz - TRAILER 02

P.S.: I will also take special care to mention that the typography used for the film's title is wisely mimicing the hard-edged, gritty letterforms of 'Bad Boys II,' a picture which by itself, operates in a decidedly separate, much higher, echelon of comedy that borders on rapture by not only dismissing its alleged unintentional hilarity, but by forging forward headlong with machine guns, dismemberment, and necrophilia—all of it directed at the audience themselves, and whatever scruples and moral codes they may cling to in this gray and barren world. — Matt Gazelle