Of course I'd mention that EGA The World's End is live now and then it would get age-gated after publishing. So it's private and I'm going to try to fix that and figure out what TH-cam doesn't like about robot heads exploding with blue goo and probably reupload it.
Oh god I was so sad when it was taken down already! I'm so glad you re-uploaded these with additional comments at the end. I LOVE when you do Edgar Wright movies. So much love in your scripts.
This is the tightest, cleanest, most efficient comedy ever written. Everything connects, there is no wasted script, yet it comes off as authentic and heart warming.
That was actually the MP28 the MP43 is a shortened version of the STG44, but your partly right it was used by the Waffen SS but only by the police counterparts, as the main military of the Waffen SS would have been given all the best gear.
@@thepurenewb1584 Okay so i had to freeze frame this but: That is a MP34 (identifiable by the front sight) so yep used in WWII. The MP43 is actually a early STG44. Those were first classed as Maschinenpistolen and then renamed Sturmgewehr. Also the iconic German MP is the MP40.
Most of the weapons are fucking jokes, the blunderbuss is because he got called outdated. Hell most them are culture references. Hell the cowboy revolvers are the fucking “dirty pinkertons” reproductions. Which is fucking funny.
This may be the only movie I've ever seen where not one line is wasted. Every single word is either a setup, a callback or a punchline. It's really amazing.
It's always great to see an Edgar Wright movie with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with smart writing and foreshadowing. Simon Pegg playing a straight laced character in opposition of Nick's foil. What joke made you burst out laughing in this movie.
I love that Janet Barker named her twins Roger (Murtaugh) and Martin (Riggs) ala Lethal Weapon. So many great little moments like this in this film make it so rewatch-able.
As a British person, this is fantastic seeing an American try and go through a film so smothered in our kind of humour he actually researches some jokes! not an insult or snide remark in any sense I just love how committed he is to understanding the film and doesn't just skip over them
@@mcgoo721It's not that we LIKE it, but manners are incredibly valued, and queuing is like the ultimate expression of that. You'll never catch us queuing at the bar though. That's the only time not queuing is expected.
@@OhMyHawkeyeswe _do_ queue at the bar but it's advanced queuing. Everyone stands in a random order but the queue is implied. If someone tries to push in or if the bartender serves the wrong person in the queue too many times in a row, they'll hear about it.
I'm a yank and it's one of my favorite comedies. It's the kind of movie I can always go back and watch again and it feels fresh. Very few movies like that for me.
Most Australians also grew up on British humour, still being part of the Commonwealth and all that. As did many other former colonies around the globe.
Randomly stumbled onto this movie when watching tv with my mom when I was younger. We thought it was a 'normal' detective show at first, a bit like Midsummer Murders. So we were hilariously surprised when things started going bonkers. One of my favorite comedy movies of all time.
0:15 The term "cops" is a British term for policemen that the USA also adopted, so its well known in the UK. Its derived from the copper badges the first policemen in London wore.
I like to think that the living statue isn't dead. They just picked him up off the street and dumped him there, and he's so dedicated to his art that he stayed.
He isn't dead. He's a street artist who plays a statue. There's loads in the tourist areas of London. The term living dead, is a play on words, a very British thing. We describe things in funny ways.
As a Brit, I really appreciate how you acknowledged Anne Reid. She is so good in everything she is in and underrated by a lot of the British audience, too. Edit: I mistakenly thought that she had passed away! Sorry!
I really loved the grip-strength training on the bed. Remember Angel got a knife through his palm? That's legit rehab for returning hand functionality.
I like how, like The Glass Onion, the main character isn't dumb for not noticing the clear villains but rather, is blinded by his insane knowledge that he leads himself to believe it HAS to be more complicated than the simple, petty explanation
I quite like that “He’s got very obvious villain signs, but, surely that’s not the case. Why the hell would it be? It hardly makes sense based on what I know already. There’s got to be something more to it.”
If memory serves, Rian Johnson (Glass Onion's director) and Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz director) are good friends! Makes sense they'd learn something from each other
One of the Easter eggs that I find surprisingly overlooked in almost all reviews is the casting of Edward Woodward in Hot Fuzz. Woodward plays the CCTV NWA member but in so many ways Hot Fuzz is a homage to his 1973 film “The Wicker Man”. The wicker man is the story of a young police officer who is sent to a small Scottish island to solve mystery of a missing girl and uncovers that the locals are all involved in a Druidic cult.
Edward Woodward's final line of dialogue in Hot Fuzz, 'Oh God, no', as he's trapped behind the seamine, is identical to his last words as he's ritually sacrificed in the finale of The Wicker Man. In the 1980s Woodward also won a Golden Globe for playing Robert McCall in the US TV series, The Equalizer.
Edward Woodward was also famous in the 80s as the original Robert McCall, The Equalizer (he played the part for four seasons from 1985 to 1989). McCall was essentially a vigilante who usually killed bad guys who terrorized their neighborhoods.
As someone who lives in an English village, I love this movie on a personal level because I relate to it The village FaceBook group is legit exactly like the NWA but with less murder
There's a wonderful exchange in the beginning between Angel and Kenneth (chief inspector). Angel: With respect, Sir. You can't just make people disappear. Kenneth: Yes I can I'm the chief inspector. They told us who the final boss was from the very beginning. My absolute favorite movie!
10:50 I love when Angel is telling his story about the pedal car and his uncle, and Danny's all "He sounds like a good bloke" and then Angel tells him about the uncle getting arrested for selling drugs to students and Danny IMMEDIATELY flips and says "Ah he sounds like a real twat" lmfao this movie is the best
The Cornetto Trilogy is incredible because it's not just a parody of three different sub-genres of films, but also brilliant shining highlights of the sub-genres.
I love that across the cornetto trilogy Nick and Simon's characters swap in terms of competence and being the straight man. Shaun - both are dorks Fuzz - Simon is serious, Nick is a dork World's End - Nick is serious, Simon is a dork. Its fantastic
in Fuzz Simon has a dorky side he embraces at the end, while Nick is a dork that grows a bit up and in Worlds end it's tjat Nick has a hidden wild side and simon grows up. I feel like the movies are about how friends help eachother grow and rub off on eachother. With lots of Gore and Aliens and stuff^^
Yep, World's End switcheroo is perfect, and it is just not for comedy, their both characters are slowly revealed to have serious, even tragic issues behind them. I feel dialog in World's End is better, but Hot Fuzz is just where everything aligns together.
Americans may know Olivia Coleman best from her queen work, but to us Brits she's had a strong background in comedy (especially working with David Mitchell and Robert Webb).
"I've been around the station a few times! (wink, wink) followed by "And eh,,what's upstairs?" with perfect comedic timing by Pegg. Just 5 seconds of masterful writing and execution.
I know! I've shopped there!! Somerfield's finest hour....before they went bust! I was a Somerfield employee myself, but not at that store! In nearby Bath!
In the random facts subtitles on the DVD, it said that Edgar Wright was told that he wasn't allowed to smash up the glass cover to the butcher's counter, so he made it seem like the counter was bulletproof. However, when it was rammed with the trollies, it actually shattered. Edgar Wright was secretly pleased.
@@stuartjones8238 Somerfield didn't go bust, it was bought out by the Co-op group, though some had to be sold to other retailers where the was already a local Co-op (I was assistant manager at one in the Cotswolds that got sold to Spar)
I know someone who worked there at the time, the production crew offered to cover up the signs and give it a different name, and the management just went "nah, it's fine"
When Danny says “I think you would have made a great muppet” at around 10:51 it has two meanings. Obviously Kermit the Frog is a Muppet but muppet also means idiot in England. If someone looked goofy or stupid we’d say “mate you look like a right muppet doing that”
Never was much into cop shows but this is definitely one of my favorite buddy cop movies. And it was Danny's DVD collection that inspired me to have a very large DVD collection.
I grew up in Somerset and my best mate used to live in Wells, it feels great to have spent so much time wandering around the setting for such a good movie
Spent 2 weeks in Bath and even though it's quite a lot bigger than Wells, it had a very distinct Sandford feel to it as well. I do have a soft spot for the west country.
I love all three of them, but I feel Hot Fuzz is where everything just comes together perfectly. I have forgotten how many times I have rewatched it :D
A couple things you missed. They ask Angel why he constantly wears a bulletproof vest, it's not London. Later when he returns Danny is patrolling with a vest on. Also the supermarket shootout scene all of the guns have evidence tags on them. I also love everyone calling him Angle after the newspaper article comes out
The final shoot out scene at the end was one of the greatest scenes I have ever seen! I'm also SO glad that Danny survived both the gunshot wound and the explosion, yikes. I seriously would have been heart broken, otherwise. T_T
a few weeks ago i attended a fancy end-of-year summer ball my university throws each year. it lasts the whole night, ending at 5am, so there was a little quiet area with movies playing all night where people could come for breaks from all the fun. when i stopped by for a rest Hot Fuzz was on. i ended up staying to watch the whole thing, just because i'd forgotten how endlessly entertaining it is. 16 years and it's still just as rewatchable as ever. modern classic!
Honestly I'll never get over how clever this movie is and how many times you have to watch it just to see the never ending foreshadowing. Comedy at it's finest.
One of my favourite directors commentary bits is the part where they cross each others paths running to the village square shootout was designed to be like Time Crisis. It was another inspiration for the movie. Like house of the dead was for Shawn of the Dead.
Another win I will add. Right after the fire, Danny and Nick are investigating, and Skinner drives by, doesn't say anything and gives him that "I'm guilty but you'll never prove it" look, all while "Fire" by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown plays in the background. Music symbolism at its best! Timothy Dalton, you can tell, had a lot of fun doing this movie and he nailed his "Anti-James Bond" villain role as you call it to perfection.
Both Hot Fuzz and Shawn of the Dead take an old genre that's become stale and put a totally new, refreshing spin on it, and they're both amazing movies for doing that and for the perfect execution.
Wright is mixing genres in all 3 Cornetto movies. Everyday working class flick turns into zombie horror in ShaunOTD. Classic British detective tv show turns into all out action movie in Fuzz and small town reuinon drama turns into sci-fi alien invasion apocalypse in World's End.
The thought and effort that went in to writing and making Hot Fuzz never fails to impress me. There really can't be too many comedy movies out there that have such tight writing and directing. Add to that Simon and NIck's onscreen chemistry and you have a pretty much perfect movie!
Handy to have a collection of top top acting people all at the top of their game and all loving to be working together. If only Dame Helen Mirren had been in the Neighbourhood Watch with her Barratt Sniper Rifle (RED 2).
This is honestly my favorite of the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy, although World's End comes at a close second. I absolutely love everything about this movie from its tight writing, background and consistent character details, and the fantastic payoff for every brick joke made in the first half in the film.
Fun Fact: The first draft of the script included a love interest for Nicholas named Victoria. She was cut from subsequent drafts, but a good amount of her dialogue was given to Danny, often without any changes.
One of my all time favourite movies. I love the foreshadowing you pick up on rewatching it. It’s why Edgar Wright is my favourite director he’s so good at comedy/dark comedy My favourite thing about this film is that when I watched it for the very first time I thought the murders were just very gory and then with my second viewing I noticed that each of the victims were killed for the most ridiculous reasons and I think that’s the funniest part of the film. I really think when you really pay attention to it or any film directed by Edgar Wright such as Hot Fuzz make it and them even better than they already are. Also the “Fascist!”/“Hag” scene kills me 😂😂😂
I went into labour for the first time while watching this movie, half way through the movie. I was really enjoying it so much that i didnt let anyone know i was having pains until the credits were rolling. 😂
This for me is the immediate result my search engine returns if someone was to ask "If you could only have one movie to watch for the rest of your life what would it be?" One of the tightest scripts I think I've ever seen put to film, SO many details from the minute to obvious-for-hilarity's-sake, the characters and how the actors brought them to life is legendary in my eyes. If we still lived in that live-TV era, this is one of the few movies I would plop down and watch if I came across it playing every single time.
Having seen Baby Driver before watching Hot Fuzz, the stunt driving scene at the end definitely felt like Edgar Wright's test run for the opening scene of Baby Driver. Especially considering he used Subaru Impreza's for both
You might already know this, so apologies if you do, but Edgar Wright actually directed the music video for a song called Blue Song by Mint Royale (starring Noel Fielding of all people) and the entire video plays out almost exactly like the opening scene of Baby Driver where Baby's waiting in the car. When Baby Driver was finally made, Wright had been sitting on the idea and writing it for about a decade, so when he was approached to do the music vid with a very tight turn around a few years earlier, the only thing he had to mind was that initial scene.
I remember seeing this in theaters. My friend and I were 2 of only maybe 25 people, and *I* was the only one laughing *way* too often. The first time it happened (and people looked at me) was in the opening with the quick cuts. The bike, the chess... SO funny!
About police and paperwork the show Barney Miller emphasized the daily drudgery and paperwork and was quite realistic about those things. It was like watching a mini play every week.
I remember walking out of the cinema after seeing this and I just had the biggest smile on my face. I remembered thinking it was like a romcom so that trivia you mention about the love interest being cut for time now makes sense to me. Definitely my favourite in the trilogy.
Thank you for finally giving this movie the love it deserves! It's not mentioned, but I love that the character's names are all basic descriptions of their role in the movie. Angel is obvious, Danny and his father (the Buttermans) are firstly presented as lazy, Skinner is a murderer etc. If you go back and watch the movie with this in mind it add a little joke to every character introduction. Even the two Andys are called Wainwright and Cartwright - which are two different words for the same thing! So many layers.
Olivia Coleman played an amazing comic role for 8 seasons on Peep Show. Anyone who has seen that and her movies knows the range she has as an actress. Awards deserved.
There’s just countless good bits in this movie. One of the other things is that at the time security cameras were all the rage and there was a moral panic over hoodies and graffiti. And then Nicholas, the super cop uses hoodie wearing kids using graffiti to defeat the security cameras and therefore uphold the law.
I know this is supposed to be just a short video, but I could go thru every scene of this movie and point out something great about it. Every scene has a reason to be there, either for the present or set up for later.
When my husband and I first moved to the suburbs I didn’t have a car, so I spent most weekends at home doing housework, cooking and ironing while he went to work. It just so happened that I had a dvd of this movie at hand and just played it on the living room tv over and over and over and over and over again while I busied myself with chores. I remember every scene and every single line of this movie as a result, and it remains my all time favourite (yes even ahead of Shrek 2, which makes me cry every time).
What I love about Danny on the nth watch is that he might not be obsessed with action movies because he's an action movie nut, but because it's his only exposure to "actual" policing (especially with his dad having gone off the moral deep end). The moment Angel comes into his life, he immediately starts absorbing lessons from him on what policing really is.
Regarding Nick Frost, I can't really tell if it's by choice that in some scenes he's putting on a heavy West Country accent but in others he's totally forgetting it and speaks his regular London.
I love all three but Hot Fuzz has got to be the best of the Cornetto Trilogy. Cinematography, amazing. Script, absolutely spot on. A masterclass in filmaking
I could probably add a dozen more things to it too Like how at the start Angel says "you can't just make people disappear" and the response being "yeees I can, I'm the chief inspector" Then in Sandford it is the chief inspector who is in charge of making people disappear. They literally tell you the ultimate villain in the first 90 seconds.
For a second I thought this was CinemaSins, and I was like "How could you trash anything in one of the best cinematic masterpieces and comedies of the past generation of films?!" Then I realized it was the opposite and I was entirely here for it. I learned somehow even more about this movie I love so much!
The screenplay’s humor and intelligence subverted and played with action movie and murder mystery tropes so well. Pegg’s performance as the ‘super cop’ Nicholas Angel is so memorable for its humor and conviction. It’s not surprising that he works so well in the Mission Impossible movies.
A Hot Fuzz AND The World's End video back to back? WE ARE WINNING. I love this movie to bits and quote it all the time. The first half perfectly sets up everything in the second half and not a moment or line is wasted.
@6:20 Another part of the gag about the Andys is that their names are Wainwright and Cartwright. Wainwright is a name that came from the wagon maker profession. So is Cartwright. Also @17:20 recall the opening dialogue with Bill Nighy. "You can't just make people disappear!" "... Yyyyes I can. I'm the Chief Inspector." And who's been making people disappear? The Chief Inspector.
I love the little sub text detail at 6:23 regarding sgt Tony. All descriptors are written in the same handwriting and marker, except for one. Implying someone wrote those all down, and then someone else was like, “nah you forgot one mate” and wrote down one more 😂
I love how this movie practically combines every mystery plot ever. “Oh, it was the rich dude. Oh, it was the nobody. Oh, it was the chief. Oh, it was some cult. Oh, they don’t life riffraff. Etc.” Perfection. Reminds me of Clue.
I love this so much they took what is normally done in America and very Americanized and made it so quintessentially British it’s amazing writing acting everything
This for me, is not only a childhood movie, but MY FAVORITE movie, outright, ever. Simon in these movies looking back, is almost like the beacon on what I find funny and what types of jokes I use. My favorite line… “LOOK AT HIS ARSSEEEE” close ones are “Narp?” and “P. I. Staker”
Hot Fuzz is my favourite of the trilogy. Mostly for personal reasons though-- none of the good guys suffer an ill fate and it's lighthearted enough I can handle all the gore better. It's the one I could watch any time, all the time. Some more details: Danny gives Nicholas his notepad suspecting his dad's "club" might have been causing the murders all this time. He didn't want to believe it, but he clearly prepared for staging his death as soon as he saw Nicholas had been attacked. Think about it-- Danny was right out the door after the fight; he was probably sent there to discover him dead. (But seems like he didn't report back so they decided the innkeeper would find him.) Also, you notice how most of-- if not all in some subtle way-- the characters have surnames related to their roles? And extra fun fact: That wild west photo is of actual Nick Frost as a child.
Man, every time I watch this film I'm constantly blown away by how tight the script is. When I first watched it, I honestly thought I wasn't going to like it much (I'd never seen SotD at that point and wasn't much interested in police shows/films - I initially only watched HF because the boy who plays "Aaron A. Aaronson" at the end was one of my best friends at the time the film was made/released), but it's been one of my consistently favourite films of the past 15 years. Everything about it is so well done and there isn't a single line wasted, no jokes last longer than they need to, it has serious moments that are allowed to be serious... It's just so damn good!
I'd go so far as to say this script is one of the best out there. It's literally perfect. One of the few movies able to juggle heart, comedy, drama, tragedy & elements of horror - utterly perfectly.
I liked before I watched the video, because I know what's going to happen next. Despite being a fan of Shaun Of The Dead and Spaced, I was mesmerized when I saw this at the theater. It's too clever, too funny, and too awesome for it's own good.
Because of this film, every time I hear "the greater good" being said, whether it's during this movie or on a random programme I'm watching, I have to say it again. I just it said it after I typed it 😅
Great fact for you: Paddy Considine spontaneously moved back into camera in the locked-off shot with the Andes. Totally ad lib. Totally perfect. You can even see Rafe Spall start to laugh about it as he moves out of shot
Oh my goodness, I have never seen this movie. I saw the poster, read the title, and said "yikes". This actually looks great and, thanks to you, I'm going to go check it out. Much appreciated.
@@peterkerr4019 Yeah, actually. Picked up the DVD at the local library. I'm glad I spent the time on it. It's a little like a cozy mystery, a little like a spy thriller, and generally quite funny yet sincere.
This was a great video! I even learned about some callbacks I missed the two hundred times I've watched it (yes, it's one of my favorite movies). One thing I think I remember from the DVD commentary was that in the fence-jumping scene, they had Nick Frost deliberately look back at the camera to show that it was actually him who smashed down the fence and not a stunt actor.
There really is a shortage of perfect movies in this world, but none of that is due to this one. Or Edgar in general. What he set out to do with this movie, he did perfectly. I kinda disagree about Danny being more than the movie pretends because, as you said, he's not a bad cop he's just had bad mentors before Nick. Granted, it doesn't spell that out, as such, but in the unfolding of the story it becomes pretty clear. But then maybe that's because I've seen this movie so many times that I'd picked upon pretty much every detail aside from the "2 Shooters 4 the price of 1" sign on the bar. Like, it's a subtle enough detail that not everyone WILL pick up on it on first viewing, but once you've seen it enough to be able to focus more fully on the background/unspoken details you can piece it together pretty well that he only SEEMS like a terrible cop because he's been influenced by terrible cops
I loved watching this movie, But watching this Video makes me appreciate it even more. Having someone point out all these little details that a casual movie watcher like me missed is really great
Of course I'd mention that EGA The World's End is live now and then it would get age-gated after publishing. So it's private and I'm going to try to fix that and figure out what TH-cam doesn't like about robot heads exploding with blue goo and probably reupload it.
Oh god I was so sad when it was taken down already! I'm so glad you re-uploaded these with additional comments at the end. I LOVE when you do Edgar Wright movies. So much love in your scripts.
Aw jeez. Good luck.
Reuploading to hopefully earn double? Pathetic
I just got back from watching it before it got taken down
*Cinemawins cocks shotgun, sighing out* "Shame.."
This is the tightest, cleanest, most efficient comedy ever written. Everything connects, there is no wasted script, yet it comes off as authentic and heart warming.
every second is just perfect
This compliment sounds like it was written by a juggler.
The best part is it also manages to be one of the best action flicks at the same time as being one of the best comedies ever
Agreed 100%
Is absolutely perfect, even on the 100th watch you can still find something you missed.
Fun Fact: When Joyce shouts Fascist at Angel, she's using an MP43, a weapon used by the Waffen SS in WW2- fascists.
That was actually the MP28 the MP43 is a shortened version of the STG44, but your partly right it was used by the Waffen SS but only by the police counterparts, as the main military of the Waffen SS would have been given all the best gear.
@@thepurenewb1584 Okay so i had to freeze frame this but: That is a MP34 (identifiable by the front sight) so yep used in WWII. The MP43 is actually a early STG44. Those were first classed as Maschinenpistolen and then renamed Sturmgewehr. Also the iconic German MP is the MP40.
"Wonderful"
The details they went to.... Its like Airplane.... Each time you watch it you pick up more ...
Most of the weapons are fucking jokes, the blunderbuss is because he got called outdated. Hell most them are culture references.
Hell the cowboy revolvers are the fucking “dirty pinkertons” reproductions. Which is fucking funny.
This may be the only movie I've ever seen where not one line is wasted. Every single word is either a setup, a callback or a punchline.
It's really amazing.
Tremors is the same way. Incredibly well written and thought out script with no wasted air.
Clearly cinemawins loved it too because this is is the second time they’ve uploaded this vid, last time was 2 years ago lol
@@sheikhrobbie466 I think it's a reupload because of copyright claims or something. happens pretty often with reaction videos, even older ones.
@@Azaghal1988 He also combined it, the original was split into two parts, and added a bit of extra commentary.
It's always great to see an Edgar Wright movie with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with smart writing and foreshadowing. Simon Pegg playing a straight laced character in opposition of Nick's foil. What joke made you burst out laughing in this movie.
I love that Janet Barker named her twins Roger (Murtaugh) and Martin (Riggs) ala Lethal Weapon. So many great little moments like this in this film make it so rewatch-able.
Good pick up, I missed that reference. Someone should have said ' I'm too old for this shit'.
You bastard, how did I not get that?
As a British person, this is fantastic seeing an American try and go through a film so smothered in our kind of humour he actually researches some jokes! not an insult or snide remark in any sense I just love how committed he is to understanding the film and doesn't just skip over them
Also as a Brit I couldn’t have put it better myself
Do you people really like queueing?
@@mcgoo721It's not that we LIKE it, but manners are incredibly valued, and queuing is like the ultimate expression of that.
You'll never catch us queuing at the bar though. That's the only time not queuing is expected.
@@OhMyHawkeyesI shall quote another recent movie:
"Manners...
Maketh....
Man!"
😂😂
@@OhMyHawkeyeswe _do_ queue at the bar but it's advanced queuing. Everyone stands in a random order but the queue is implied. If someone tries to push in or if the bartender serves the wrong person in the queue too many times in a row, they'll hear about it.
I love that the paperwork scenes have jump cuts and are shot like an action scene, cracks me up every time.
I love it just because it’s oddly satisfying
I just love how this quintessential British film made for British audiences has gained international fame.
Argentinian fan here. I've watched it at least 5 times, and enjoyed every single one of them. Cult film
I'm a yank and it's one of my favorite comedies. It's the kind of movie I can always go back and watch again and it feels fresh. Very few movies like that for me.
I'm sure you know already but we Kiwi's love British humour. Ask almost anyone here to name their favourite comedy and it will no doubt be British.
Generally British movies and humour is really appreciated in Sweden.
Most Australians also grew up on British humour, still being part of the Commonwealth and all that. As did many other former colonies around the globe.
I love the fact that as Angel rides into town on the horse for the big shootout, the shotguns almost look like angel wings rising up behind him.
And you’ll note that he’s riding on a pale horse.
Randomly stumbled onto this movie when watching tv with my mom when I was younger. We thought it was a 'normal' detective show at first, a bit like Midsummer Murders. So we were hilariously surprised when things started going bonkers. One of my favorite comedy movies of all time.
It's kind of like Midsomer Murders what with the body count, and it's in a typical little English village
0:15 The term "cops" is a British term for policemen that the USA also adopted, so its well known in the UK. Its derived from the copper badges the first policemen in London wore.
In the UK I think a more common term was copper instead of cop which was derived from cop right??
I love thay while Cate Blanchett is uncredited as Janine, the guy Simon accidentally speaks to first is credited as "Not Janine"
Hehe, but I also agree that those eyes are like "damn, those are beauties, wait a minute!", I think I got it in second viewing :D
I like to think that the living statue isn't dead. They just picked him up off the street and dumped him there, and he's so dedicated to his art that he stayed.
Good point. You don't notice any obvious signs on violence on him, do you?
😂😂😂
He isn't dead. He's a street artist who plays a statue. There's loads in the tourist areas of London. The term living dead, is a play on words, a very British thing. We describe things in funny ways.
@@Londonerererwhoosh...
@@LondonerererHe meant when sgt. Angel fell into the pit of dead bodies, the statue is there too and might be alive and in character
As a Brit, I really appreciate how you acknowledged Anne Reid. She is so good in everything she is in and underrated by a lot of the British audience, too.
Edit: I mistakenly thought that she had passed away! Sorry!
"Was"? I just Googled her and she's still alive
Wallace and Gromit, anyone?
Also she’s still alive
Dinnerladies anyone? Please this show was a gem and nearly no one my age knows about it
@@JackTheWind
Who is she in Wallace & Gromit?
@@Richard_Nickerson Wendolene from A Close Shave
I really loved the grip-strength training on the bed. Remember Angel got a knife through his palm? That's legit rehab for returning hand functionality.
I like how, like The Glass Onion, the main character isn't dumb for not noticing the clear villains but rather, is blinded by his insane knowledge that he leads himself to believe it HAS to be more complicated than the simple, petty explanation
I quite like that
“He’s got very obvious villain signs, but, surely that’s not the case. Why the hell would it be? It hardly makes sense based on what I know already. There’s got to be something more to it.”
If memory serves, Rian Johnson (Glass Onion's director) and Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz director) are good friends! Makes sense they'd learn something from each other
One of the Easter eggs that I find surprisingly overlooked in almost all reviews is the casting of Edward Woodward in Hot Fuzz. Woodward plays the CCTV NWA member but in so many ways Hot Fuzz is a homage to his 1973 film “The Wicker Man”. The wicker man is the story of a young police officer who is sent to a small Scottish island to solve mystery of a missing girl and uncovers that the locals are all involved in a Druidic cult.
Edward Woodward's final line of dialogue in Hot Fuzz, 'Oh God, no', as he's trapped behind the seamine, is identical to his last words as he's ritually sacrificed in the finale of The Wicker Man.
In the 1980s Woodward also won a Golden Globe for playing Robert McCall in the US TV series, The Equalizer.
It is? I just remember Britt Ekland and her dance...
@@peterdavis7579 his last line wasn't "not the beees!"
@@BrianBullington😅
Edward Woodward was also famous in the 80s as the original Robert McCall, The Equalizer (he played the part for four seasons from 1985 to 1989). McCall was essentially a vigilante who usually killed bad guys who terrorized their neighborhoods.
This movie genuinely has one of the tightest written scripts and direction of all time.
As someone who lives in an English village, I love this movie on a personal level because I relate to it
The village FaceBook group is legit exactly like the NWA but with less murder
LESS murder? Hmm...
So they want you to believe...
It's not murder if it's for the Greater Good
@@Decadent1984 Oh, murder, murder, murder. Change the f@cking record
@@richardforshaw-smith7111 Kill the Queen?
There's a wonderful exchange in the beginning between Angel and Kenneth (chief inspector).
Angel: With respect, Sir. You can't just make people disappear.
Kenneth: Yes I can I'm the chief inspector.
They told us who the final boss was from the very beginning. My absolute favorite movie!
Whoaa..... Never noticed that before. And I've watched this at least 6 times!
Well, time for the seventh then.
Omg I never noticed that!! That is so clever
10:50 I love when Angel is telling his story about the pedal car and his uncle, and Danny's all "He sounds like a good bloke" and then Angel tells him about the uncle getting arrested for selling drugs to students and Danny IMMEDIATELY flips and says "Ah he sounds like a real twat" lmfao
this movie is the best
It’s so real, too! You wanna support your friend but don’t know how THEY feel, so you guess and flip flop as the context changes 😂
The Cornetto Trilogy is incredible because it's not just a parody of three different sub-genres of films, but also brilliant shining highlights of the sub-genres.
I love that across the cornetto trilogy Nick and Simon's characters swap in terms of competence and being the straight man.
Shaun - both are dorks
Fuzz - Simon is serious, Nick is a dork
World's End - Nick is serious, Simon is a dork.
Its fantastic
There's a bit of a twist each time, though.😊
@thegameknight8916 oh yes and it's brilliant!
in Fuzz Simon has a dorky side he embraces at the end, while Nick is a dork that grows a bit up and in Worlds end it's tjat Nick has a hidden wild side and simon grows up.
I feel like the movies are about how friends help eachother grow and rub off on eachother. With lots of Gore and Aliens and stuff^^
@@Azaghal1988 And in Dead, It's a bit different.
Yep, World's End switcheroo is perfect, and it is just not for comedy, their both characters are slowly revealed to have serious, even tragic issues behind them. I feel dialog in World's End is better, but Hot Fuzz is just where everything aligns together.
Americans may know Olivia Coleman best from her queen work, but to us Brits she's had a strong background in comedy (especially working with David Mitchell and Robert Webb).
"I've been around the station a few times! (wink, wink) followed by "And eh,,what's upstairs?" with perfect comedic timing by Pegg. Just 5 seconds of masterful writing and execution.
well comedy and that one time she was in doctor who.
20:00 Fun fact, that was an actual supermarket that the company let Hot Fuzz effectively destroy for the film.
Fun fact: I don't give a fuck
I know! I've shopped there!! Somerfield's finest hour....before they went bust! I was a Somerfield employee myself, but not at that store! In nearby Bath!
In the random facts subtitles on the DVD, it said that Edgar Wright was told that he wasn't allowed to smash up the glass cover to the butcher's counter, so he made it seem like the counter was bulletproof. However, when it was rammed with the trollies, it actually shattered.
Edgar Wright was secretly pleased.
@@stuartjones8238 Somerfield didn't go bust, it was bought out by the Co-op group, though some had to be sold to other retailers where the was already a local Co-op (I was assistant manager at one in the Cotswolds that got sold to Spar)
I know someone who worked there at the time, the production crew offered to cover up the signs and give it a different name, and the management just went "nah, it's fine"
When Danny says “I think you would have made a great muppet” at around 10:51 it has two meanings. Obviously Kermit the Frog is a Muppet but muppet also means idiot in England. If someone looked goofy or stupid we’d say “mate you look like a right muppet doing that”
Never was much into cop shows but this is definitely one of my favorite buddy cop movies. And it was Danny's DVD collection that inspired me to have a very large DVD collection.
Always keep with physical media.
@@NobodyC13 the streaming services show every movie you ever wanted to see, except for the one you actually wanted to watch.
I grew up in Somerset and my best mate used to live in Wells, it feels great to have spent so much time wandering around the setting for such a good movie
Spent 2 weeks in Bath and even though it's quite a lot bigger than Wells, it had a very distinct Sandford feel to it as well. I do have a soft spot for the west country.
Ooooh is it Wells is it?
I love all three of them, but I feel Hot Fuzz is where everything just comes together perfectly. I have forgotten how many times I have rewatched it :D
A couple things you missed. They ask Angel why he constantly wears a bulletproof vest, it's not London. Later when he returns Danny is patrolling with a vest on. Also the supermarket shootout scene all of the guns have evidence tags on them. I also love everyone calling him Angle after the newspaper article comes out
The final shoot out scene at the end was one of the greatest scenes I have ever seen!
I'm also SO glad that Danny survived both the gunshot wound and the explosion, yikes.
I seriously would have been heart broken, otherwise. T_T
a few weeks ago i attended a fancy end-of-year summer ball my university throws each year. it lasts the whole night, ending at 5am, so there was a little quiet area with movies playing all night where people could come for breaks from all the fun. when i stopped by for a rest Hot Fuzz was on. i ended up staying to watch the whole thing, just because i'd forgotten how endlessly entertaining it is. 16 years and it's still just as rewatchable as ever. modern classic!
Honestly I'll never get over how clever this movie is and how many times you have to watch it just to see the never ending foreshadowing. Comedy at it's finest.
One of my favourite directors commentary bits is the part where they cross each others paths running to the village square shootout was designed to be like Time Crisis. It was another inspiration for the movie. Like house of the dead was for Shawn of the Dead.
That's very cool
I love that game. If I ever win the lotto, I'm buying all the versions.
Really , Hot Fuzz is the Airplane! of the cop buddy movies. So many subtle jokes and details that you don't get on the first viewing.
Another win I will add. Right after the fire, Danny and Nick are investigating, and Skinner drives by, doesn't say anything and gives him that "I'm guilty but you'll never prove it" look, all while "Fire" by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown plays in the background.
Music symbolism at its best!
Timothy Dalton, you can tell, had a lot of fun doing this movie and he nailed his "Anti-James Bond" villain role as you call it to perfection.
Even more than in the background, IIRC he's explicitly playing it on his car stereo!
Both Hot Fuzz and Shawn of the Dead take an old genre that's become stale and put a totally new, refreshing spin on it, and they're both amazing movies for doing that and for the perfect execution.
I love both movies. It's great. They aren't parody, just genuine genre movies, that happen to be funny.
Wright is mixing genres in all 3 Cornetto movies. Everyday working class flick turns into zombie horror in ShaunOTD. Classic British detective tv show turns into all out action movie in Fuzz and small town reuinon drama turns into sci-fi alien invasion apocalypse in World's End.
I like the small hint at the start of the movie when Bill Nye says he can just make people dissappear because he's the chief
Foreshadowing
Olivia Colman should have gotten a win too. She is golden. Amazing video besides missing another win, so let's add it here.
She’s brilliant 😊
And Bill Bailey!
This team is so funny they can get a chuckle just from camera focus. The triple zoom out changes the joke every step is genious
The thought and effort that went in to writing and making Hot Fuzz never fails to impress me. There really can't be too many comedy movies out there that have such tight writing and directing. Add to that Simon and NIck's onscreen chemistry and you have a pretty much perfect movie!
Handy to have a collection of top top acting people all at the top of their game and all loving to be working together. If only Dame Helen Mirren had been in the Neighbourhood Watch with her Barratt Sniper Rifle (RED 2).
This is honestly my favorite of the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy, although World's End comes at a close second. I absolutely love everything about this movie from its tight writing, background and consistent character details, and the fantastic payoff for every brick joke made in the first half in the film.
Fun Fact: The first draft of the script included a love interest for Nicholas named Victoria. She was cut from subsequent drafts, but a good amount of her dialogue was given to Danny, often without any changes.
That's amazing.
I’m pretty sure CW states that fact in this video but it’s still a fun fact!
Not true.
If this is true that's cool as heck.
tell me you haven't watched the video yet lol
One of my all time favourite movies. I love the foreshadowing you pick up on rewatching it. It’s why Edgar Wright is my favourite director he’s so good at comedy/dark comedy
My favourite thing about this film is that when I watched it for the very first time I thought the murders were just very gory and then with my second viewing I noticed that each of the victims were killed for the most ridiculous reasons and I think that’s the funniest part of the film. I really think when you really pay attention to it or any film directed by Edgar Wright such as Hot Fuzz make it and them even better than they already are. Also the “Fascist!”/“Hag” scene kills me 😂😂😂
This is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. Not a single bad scene!
This film is awesome
I went into labour for the first time while watching this movie, half way through the movie.
I was really enjoying it so much that i didnt let anyone know i was having pains until the credits were rolling. 😂
What was the gender of your child, and did you name them after anyone in this movie?
Commitment. Also, I can't imagine the weird contrast between a jolly good time, and terrible labor pains. Me hat off to ye.
This for me is the immediate result my search engine returns if someone was to ask "If you could only have one movie to watch for the rest of your life what would it be?" One of the tightest scripts I think I've ever seen put to film, SO many details from the minute to obvious-for-hilarity's-sake, the characters and how the actors brought them to life is legendary in my eyes. If we still lived in that live-TV era, this is one of the few movies I would plop down and watch if I came across it playing every single time.
Having seen Baby Driver before watching Hot Fuzz, the stunt driving scene at the end definitely felt like Edgar Wright's test run for the opening scene of Baby Driver. Especially considering he used Subaru Impreza's for both
You might already know this, so apologies if you do, but Edgar Wright actually directed the music video for a song called Blue Song by Mint Royale (starring Noel Fielding of all people) and the entire video plays out almost exactly like the opening scene of Baby Driver where Baby's waiting in the car. When Baby Driver was finally made, Wright had been sitting on the idea and writing it for about a decade, so when he was approached to do the music vid with a very tight turn around a few years earlier, the only thing he had to mind was that initial scene.
@@march5057 I didn't know about that! I'll have to go look that video up, thanks!
@@Stanty16 It's a great song too!
I remember seeing this in theaters. My friend and I were 2 of only maybe 25 people, and *I* was the only one laughing *way* too often.
The first time it happened (and people looked at me) was in the opening with the quick cuts. The bike, the chess... SO funny!
A film so jam packed with references to itself that you constantly pick up on new ones. Honestly one of the most well written films I’ve ever seen.
About police and paperwork the show Barney Miller emphasized the daily drudgery and paperwork and was quite realistic about those things. It was like watching a mini play every week.
Holy crap I never noticed the little detail about slowly loosing his cell signal. that's an awesome little detail.
I remember walking out of the cinema after seeing this and I just had the biggest smile on my face. I remembered thinking it was like a romcom so that trivia you mention about the love interest being cut for time now makes sense to me. Definitely my favourite in the trilogy.
I just love how Simon and Nick play off each other in these movies, it's so easy to see that they're friends in real life.
Plus another win is during the Crime Scene part, I'm pretty sure one of the guys who say "Hello there!" Is Ewan McGregor, who is also uncredited
I can't think about Hot Fuzz (which I do a lot) without thinking about Bill Nighy's nose twitch/sneer. It's so subtle, and it's perfection.
Thank you for finally giving this movie the love it deserves!
It's not mentioned, but I love that the character's names are all basic descriptions of their role in the movie. Angel is obvious, Danny and his father (the Buttermans) are firstly presented as lazy, Skinner is a murderer etc. If you go back and watch the movie with this in mind it add a little joke to every character introduction. Even the two Andys are called Wainwright and Cartwright - which are two different words for the same thing! So many layers.
Olivia Coleman played an amazing comic role for 8 seasons on Peep Show. Anyone who has seen that and her movies knows the range she has as an actress. Awards deserved.
7:50 Makes sense Edgar Wright would insert himself there.
He did exactly that job in that same store chain in the same town the movie was filmed!
There’s just countless good bits in this movie. One of the other things is that at the time security cameras were all the rage and there was a moral panic over hoodies and graffiti. And then Nicholas, the super cop uses hoodie wearing kids using graffiti to defeat the security cameras and therefore uphold the law.
"You wanna be a big cop in a small town..? F*ck off up the model village!!" 😂😂😂
Edward Woodwards Oh God No is the last line he said in The Wicker Man.
I’m so glad you wrote this & saved me the trouble.
So nice not to be alone in noting that sweet detail (homage?)
I don’t think I’ll ever see movies outside Wright’s work that rewards the viewer this much for paying close attention. Almost overwhelmingly rewarding
I know this is supposed to be just a short video, but I could go thru every scene of this movie and point out something great about it. Every scene has a reason to be there, either for the present or set up for later.
When my husband and I first moved to the suburbs I didn’t have a car, so I spent most weekends at home doing housework, cooking and ironing while he went to work. It just so happened that I had a dvd of this movie at hand and just played it on the living room tv over and over and over and over and over again while I busied myself with chores. I remember every scene and every single line of this movie as a result, and it remains my all time favourite (yes even ahead of Shrek 2, which makes me cry every time).
What I love about Danny on the nth watch is that he might not be obsessed with action movies because he's an action movie nut, but because it's his only exposure to "actual" policing (especially with his dad having gone off the moral deep end). The moment Angel comes into his life, he immediately starts absorbing lessons from him on what policing really is.
Regarding Nick Frost, I can't really tell if it's by choice that in some scenes he's putting on a heavy West Country accent but in others he's totally forgetting it and speaks his regular London.
I love all three but Hot Fuzz has got to be the best of the Cornetto Trilogy. Cinematography, amazing. Script, absolutely spot on. A masterclass in filmaking
I could probably add a dozen more things to it too
Like how at the start Angel says "you can't just make people disappear" and the response being "yeees I can, I'm the chief inspector"
Then in Sandford it is the chief inspector who is in charge of making people disappear.
They literally tell you the ultimate villain in the first 90 seconds.
Hot Fuzz is an absolute triumph of a movie. It's so brilliantly written and Pegg and Frost are fantastic.
The corneto trilogy is honestly one of the best trilogies about 100% simon pegg and nick frost are just class together
Even after all those rewatch, I still found something new from this movie. Easily my top 5 movies since I first watched it.
For a second I thought this was CinemaSins, and I was like "How could you trash anything in one of the best cinematic masterpieces and comedies of the past generation of films?!"
Then I realized it was the opposite and I was entirely here for it. I learned somehow even more about this movie I love so much!
The screenplay’s humor and intelligence subverted and played with action movie and murder mystery tropes so well.
Pegg’s performance as the ‘super cop’ Nicholas Angel is so memorable for its humor and conviction. It’s not surprising that he works so well in the Mission Impossible movies.
A Hot Fuzz AND The World's End video back to back? WE ARE WINNING. I love this movie to bits and quote it all the time. The first half perfectly sets up everything in the second half and not a moment or line is wasted.
This is awesome! Hot Fuzz is an excellent movie, I can see why this EGA is so long, there is so much to appreciate in this movie!
@6:20 Another part of the gag about the Andys is that their names are Wainwright and Cartwright. Wainwright is a name that came from the wagon maker profession. So is Cartwright.
Also @17:20 recall the opening dialogue with Bill Nighy. "You can't just make people disappear!"
"... Yyyyes I can. I'm the Chief Inspector." And who's been making people disappear? The Chief Inspector.
Also the church part that Skinner got impaled on was the one he pushed onto Messenger writ-small.
I love the little sub text detail at 6:23 regarding sgt Tony. All descriptors are written in the same handwriting and marker, except for one. Implying someone wrote those all down, and then someone else was like, “nah you forgot one mate” and wrote down one more 😂
Literally one of the best comedy action film's ever made. Also has a massive heart at the centre of Danny & Nick's Bromance 😍
I love how this movie practically combines every mystery plot ever. “Oh, it was the rich dude. Oh, it was the nobody. Oh, it was the chief. Oh, it was some cult. Oh, they don’t life riffraff. Etc.” Perfection. Reminds me of Clue.
I love this so much they took what is normally done in America and very Americanized and made it so quintessentially British it’s amazing writing acting everything
So glad you mentioned the Ian Banks/Ian. M. Banks joke. Never seen anyone pick up on that before. Such a great subtle gag
I love that every citizen of Sandford has a surname that used to be a job. Cartwright, Wainwright, Farmer, Staker, Hatcher
I also appreciate that the « Andies » have essentially the same surnames with different linguistic roots (Cartwright & wainwright).
This for me, is not only a childhood movie, but MY FAVORITE movie, outright, ever. Simon in these movies looking back, is almost like the beacon on what I find funny and what types of jokes I use. My favorite line… “LOOK AT HIS ARSSEEEE” close ones are “Narp?” and “P. I. Staker”
Hot Fuzz is my favourite of the trilogy. Mostly for personal reasons though-- none of the good guys suffer an ill fate and it's lighthearted enough I can handle all the gore better. It's the one I could watch any time, all the time. Some more details:
Danny gives Nicholas his notepad suspecting his dad's "club" might have been causing the murders all this time. He didn't want to believe it, but he clearly prepared for staging his death as soon as he saw Nicholas had been attacked. Think about it-- Danny was right out the door after the fight; he was probably sent there to discover him dead. (But seems like he didn't report back so they decided the innkeeper would find him.)
Also, you notice how most of-- if not all in some subtle way-- the characters have surnames related to their roles?
And extra fun fact: That wild west photo is of actual Nick Frost as a child.
Also during the garden centre chase, at every cut the clocked figure run differently
Man, every time I watch this film I'm constantly blown away by how tight the script is. When I first watched it, I honestly thought I wasn't going to like it much (I'd never seen SotD at that point and wasn't much interested in police shows/films - I initially only watched HF because the boy who plays "Aaron A. Aaronson" at the end was one of my best friends at the time the film was made/released), but it's been one of my consistently favourite films of the past 15 years. Everything about it is so well done and there isn't a single line wasted, no jokes last longer than they need to, it has serious moments that are allowed to be serious... It's just so damn good!
Still in contact with Aaron A Aaronson?
@@Kier4n99 Nah, not since we left school years ago. Our mothers do still keep in touch with each other though.
Out of my top 10 favorite movies of all time, Edgar Wright directed 3 of them. The man is an absolute genius at what he does.
One of the best comedy’s ever. Me and my moms favorite film. References in this movie back into itself are so intertwined it’s crazy
I'd go so far as to say this script is one of the best out there. It's literally perfect.
One of the few movies able to juggle heart, comedy, drama, tragedy & elements of horror - utterly perfectly.
I wish I could watch the cornetto trilogy for the first time again but those movies are so good that they'll never leave my memory.
I have an experimental drug that can help with that
If you'll ignore the side effects
I'm interested
21:20 someone at my elementary school somehow did that with a stick, poor lad
I liked before I watched the video, because I know what's going to happen next. Despite being a fan of Shaun Of The Dead and Spaced, I was mesmerized when I saw this at the theater. It's too clever, too funny, and too awesome for it's own good.
12:32 my favorite bits in a movie ever. I use that GIF all the time.
Because of this film, every time I hear "the greater good" being said, whether it's during this movie or on a random programme I'm watching, I have to say it again. I just it said it after I typed it 😅
The greater good
@laurencetayloruk the greater good.......
Great fact for you: Paddy Considine spontaneously moved back into camera in the locked-off shot with the Andes. Totally ad lib. Totally perfect. You can even see Rafe Spall start to laugh about it as he moves out of shot
Oh my goodness, I have never seen this movie. I saw the poster, read the title, and said "yikes". This actually looks great and, thanks to you, I'm going to go check it out. Much appreciated.
Have you seen hot Fuzz yet? Its well worth a viewing, or 6.
@@peterkerr4019 Yeah, actually. Picked up the DVD at the local library. I'm glad I spent the time on it. It's a little like a cozy mystery, a little like a spy thriller, and generally quite funny yet sincere.
@@Aileil I'm glad you liked it.
This was a great video! I even learned about some callbacks I missed the two hundred times I've watched it (yes, it's one of my favorite movies). One thing I think I remember from the DVD commentary was that in the fence-jumping scene, they had Nick Frost deliberately look back at the camera to show that it was actually him who smashed down the fence and not a stunt actor.
There really is a shortage of perfect movies in this world, but none of that is due to this one. Or Edgar in general. What he set out to do with this movie, he did perfectly. I kinda disagree about Danny being more than the movie pretends because, as you said, he's not a bad cop he's just had bad mentors before Nick. Granted, it doesn't spell that out, as such, but in the unfolding of the story it becomes pretty clear. But then maybe that's because I've seen this movie so many times that I'd picked upon pretty much every detail aside from the "2 Shooters 4 the price of 1" sign on the bar. Like, it's a subtle enough detail that not everyone WILL pick up on it on first viewing, but once you've seen it enough to be able to focus more fully on the background/unspoken details you can piece it together pretty well that he only SEEMS like a terrible cop because he's been influenced by terrible cops
I loved watching this movie, But watching this Video makes me appreciate it even more. Having someone point out all these little details that a casual movie watcher like me missed is really great
Greatest comedy and arguably greatest British film ever made.
One of the tops but Ealing made so many great ones.