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Hot Fuzz (HD-DVD)

Simon Pegg (actor), Nick Frost (actor) and Edgar Wright (director)
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Rolling Stone, 04/19/2007, p.70, 3 stars out of 4 -- "You can't beat these Brits for blood lust and belly laughs....It's a blast."

Box Office, 05/01/2007, p.66, "In director Edgar Wright and Pegg's tight script, the humor works on several levels....Best is Wright's slick style, with quick cuts that move the action along at a clip."

Sight and Sound, 04/01/2007, p.66, "Full blooded as the action is, Wright and Pegg's comedic verve and detail-conscious writing shine through..."

Premiere, 04/01/2007, p.44, 3 stars out of 4 -- "[D]eeply nuts and exhaustingly hilarious..."

Total Film, 04/01/2007, p.43, 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] churning blender of gags, mugs, kinks, quirks, sneaks, nods, wink-winks, zingers and stingers that thunders along..."

New York Times, 04/18/2007, p.E10, "Mr. Pegg and Mr. Frost, who played best buddies in SHAUN OF THE DEAD, have an easy, believable rapport....Think of it as THE FULL MONTY blown to smithereens."

Ultimate DVD, 06/29/2007, p.29, 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOT FUZZ is pure fun from start to finish and is so chock full of blink-and-you'll-miss-it gags that it's endlessly watchable."

Entertainment Weekly, 04/27/2007, 116-117, "[A] very funny cop comedy....These guys are as much A-level scholars of movie genre conventions as their better-known, better-hyped Stateside colleagues Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez..." -- Grade: B+

Uncut, 08/01/2007, p.137, 3 stars out of 5 -- "[F]illed with gentle British laughs and chaotic American ultraviolence....[HOT FUZZ] knows who it's shooting for and picks them off expertly."

Release Note

HD DVD Features:

Side A: HD DVD: HOT FUZZ
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 EX - English, French
Subtitles - English (SDH), French - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Outtakes
Theatrical Trailers
The Man Who Would Be Fuzz - Simon and Nick play a scene as Sean Connery and Michael Caine
Danny's Notebook: The Other Side
Audio Commentary - 1. Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright; The Sanford Police Service - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kevin Eldon & Olivia Colman;
The Sandford Village People - Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Dalton, Paul Freeman & Edward Woodward; The Real Fuzz - Andy Leafe & Nick Eckland
Fuzz-O-Meter - Trivia Track
Storyboards
Deleted Scenes - 1. "Inadmissible" with Filmmaker Commentary
Documentary - 1. Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz - Making of Documentary
Clips/Highlights - 1. Speculative: Video Blogs
2. Hot Funk - Montage of clips using the "clean" dialogue from the TV and airline version of the film
Featurettes - 1. "Cranks, Cranes & Controlled Chaos"
2. "Here Come the Fuzz"
3. "Return to Sandford" - A return trip to Wells, the town that posed as Sandford in the film, coinciding with a premiere of the film for the townsfolk
4. "Edgar & Simon's Flip Chart" - This piece shows them reading a flip chart after the event to see just how much of the chart made it into the film
5. "Simon Muggs" - Compilation of Simon Pegg hamming it up after each take
6. "Sergeant Fisher's Perfect Sunday"
7. "AM Blam: Making Dead Right"
Short Film - DEAD RIGHT (1993) - An edited version of "DEAD RIGHT," one of Edgar's early films and on which Hot Fuzz is very loosely based with Audio Commentary.
Text/Photo Galleries:
Photographic: Galleries
Hearsay: Plot Holes and Comparisons
Special Effects: Before and After - A before and after look at the film's special effects scenes
Short Film - DEAD RIGHT (1993) - An edited version of "DEAD RIGHT," one of Edgar's early films and on which Hot Fuzz is very loosely based with Audio Commentary.
Side B: Standard Definition: HOT FUZZ

Product Notes

Pop culture sponges Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost team up again for HOT FUZZ, their follow-up to the surprise hit movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD. HOT FUZZ follows a near-identical formula to its predecessor, simply replacing the various homages to horror movies by heaping on the adulation for action flicks such as POINT BREAK and BAD BOYS II (both of which are referenced throughout). The plot finds outstanding London-based police officer Nicholas Angel (Pegg) transplanted to a rural English village. On arrival, Angel teams up with the oaf-like PC Danny Butterman (Frost) and together they investigate a series of mysterious murders, all of which are classed as "accidents" by the increasingly strange townsfolk.

Director Wright combines gory set-pieces with traditional action-movie staples: mustachioed detectives in sunglasses, corny one-liners, rapid machine-gun fire, and blood-spattered fight scenes all feature heavily. References to other movies come thick and fast throughout, and HOT FUZZ will have film fans' memories working overtime as they try to catch all the allusions to Pegg/Wright/Frost's favorite films. A veritable Who's Who of British comedy provides support, with Martin Freeman (THE OFFICE), Bill Bailey (BLACK BOOKS), Steve Coogan (I'M ALAN PARTRIDGE), and Olivia Colman (PEEP SHOW) in small roles, and there's even space in the cast for serious actors like Timothy Dalton and Paddy Considine. HOT FUZZ eases up on the humor of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and often threatens to topple over into Chuck Norris territory, but Wright manages to insert enough gags to keep the balance just about perfect, providing a fitting, amusing, and occasionally touching homage to cinema's action heroes.

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