Director: Edgar Wright, 15, 2007

Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton

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Background

• Hot Fuzz

• Hot Fuzz - Sunday Times review

• Hot Fuzz blows the barn doors off

• Shaun of the Dead

Meet the flying squad

Kevin Maher takes a spin with the stars of police comedy Hot Fuzz

Related Internet Links

• 2007 London Film Festival coverage

• Times Online Film Trailers

Having tackled zombies in Shaun of the Dead, Pegg and Wright focus their parodic magnifying glass on the cop movie. In tone, at least until the final reel, the film is surprisingly genteel, owing as much to Ealing comedies as to Lethal Weapon. Yet the observations are as acute as ever, with much homoerotic fun made at the expense of the fact that the Hollywood romance and buddy movie share a common story arc.

On DVD, too, these guys know how to treat their fans, with the extras seemingly thrown on with a trowel over two discs. The little known facts that emerge from the commentaries – all 27 known police sirens are mixed together at the start of the film, for instance – for once make them worth listening to.

DVD extras

Four commentaries, outtakes, trivia track, storyboards, flickbook, deleted scenes, video blogs, photo galleries, making-of documentary, Wright’s film debut

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