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The film was met with a wealth of critical praise when it opened in the US on [[April 20]], [[2007]]. Currently, it has a high [[metacritic]] score of 81.<ref>[http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/hotfuzz]</ref>
The film was met with a wealth of critical praise when it opened in the US on [[April 20]], [[2007]]. Currently, it has a high [[metacritic]] score of 81.<ref>[http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/hotfuzz]</ref>
It made $5.8 million in its opening weekend from only 825 theatres. ''Hot Fuzz'' also had the highest per-theatre average of any film in the top ten that week. Its opening weekend take beat the $3.3 million opening weekend take of Pegg and Wright's previous film, ''Shaun of the Dead''. In its second weekend of release, [[Rogue Pictures]] expanded the film's theatre count from 825 to 1,272 and it grossed $4.9 million, representing a 17% dip in the gross. As of [[June 23]], [[2007]], ''Hot Fuzz'' has grossed $74,193,041 .<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hotfuzz.htm Box Office Mojo: HOT FUZZ]</ref> Not only did it in 9 weeks make nearly twice what ''Shaun of the Dead'' made in the US but it also made more than three times Shaun did in other countries.<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shaunofthedead.htm Box Office Mojo : SHAUN OF THE DEAD]</ref>
It made $5.8 million in its opening weekend from only 825 theatres. ''Hot Fuzz'' also had the highest per-theatre average of any film in the top ten that week. Its opening weekend take beat the $3.3 million opening weekend take of Pegg and Wright's previous film, ''Shaun of the Dead''. In its second weekend of release, [[Rogue Pictures]] expanded the film's theatre count from 825 to 1,272 and it grossed $4.9 million, representing a 17% dip in the gross. As of [[June 23]], [[2007]], ''Hot Fuzz'' has grossed $74,193,041 .<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hotfuzz.htm Box Office Mojo: HOT FUZZ]</ref> Not only did it in 9 weeks make nearly twice what ''Shaun of the Dead'' made in the US but it also made more than three times Shaun did in other countries.<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shaunofthedead.htm Box Office Mojo : SHAUN OF THE DEAD]</ref>


==Trivia==

When Nicholas Angel recieves a call regarding the town swan and assumes it is a prank call, he loudly exclaims, "COME ON!". This is a phrase used by Gob Bluth in the television show Arrested Development, one of Simon Pegg's favorite shows.



==DVD==
==DVD==

Revision as of 08:26, 2 August 2007

Hot Fuzz
File:Hot fuzz.jpg
Directed byEdgar Wright
Written bySimon Pegg
Edgar Wright
Produced byNira Park
Working Title Films
StarringSimon Pegg
Nick Frost
Jim Broadbent
Timothy Dalton
Paddy Considine
Edward Woodward
Billie Whitelaw
Distributed byUnited Kingdom Universal Pictures (and worldwide with exceptions)
Australia New Zealand Paramount Pictures
Canada Alliance Atlantis
United States Rogue Pictures
Release dates
United Kingdom 14 February, 2007
Australia 15 March, 2007
New Zealand 9 March, 2007
Canada 20 April, 2007
United States 20 April, 2007,
Germany 14 June, 2007,
South Korea 21 June, 2007
Running time
115 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUK £8 million (est.) [1]

Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British police action/comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The three have worked together previously on the motion picture Shaun of the Dead and the television series Spaced. It was directed by Edgar Wright and produced by Nira Park.

Plot

Nicholas Angel, an extremely dedicated and over-achieving police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service, is so good that he makes everyone else on the service look bad. As a result his superiors send him to a place where his talents won’t be quite so embarrassing: the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford, where there hasn't been a recorded murder for twenty years.

Once there, he is partnered with well-meaning but overeager and naive police constable Danny Butterman, the son of local police Inspector Frank Butterman and the late Mrs Irene Butterman. A committed action movie fan, Danny is in awe of his new big-city partner, believing him to be a real-life "bad boy" who just might provide him with his chance to experience the life of gunfights and car chases he so longs for. Angel, meanwhile, struggles to adjust to the quiet and uneventful pace of the village, and despite clearing up several otherwise unnoticed crimes and misdemeanors in short order (such as shoplifters, underage drinkers and a farmer storing a huge supply of illegal weapons in his barn), soon finds his most pressing concern being a swan that has escaped from its owner. Faced with the reality of his situation, Angel and Danny eventually bond over drinks at the local pub and action movies.

Soon after Angel's arrival, a series of grisly deaths rock the village, all committed by an individual in a black hood and cloak. Increasingly convinced that Sandford is not what it seems and that the victims of the 'accidents' were murdered, Angel begins to clash with the other officers on the force, in particular the two detectives who believe that he's nothing more than an uptight city cop with an overactive imagination. However, Angel refuses to drop the investigation and initially suspects Simon "Sissy" Skinner, the charming but sinister manager of the local Somerfield supermarket, of murdering the victims due to their involvement in a lucrative property deal. His confrontation with Skinner only reveals Skinner's apparent innocence and further damages Angel's credibility with his colleagues.

After being ambushed in his hotel room by the cloaked murderer, who is unmasked as the giant trolley boy of the Somerfield supermarket acting under the instruction of Skinner, Angel is led to a nearby castle where he discovers the truth—Inspector Butterman, Skinner and the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (NWA), intent on keeping Sandford's title of "Village of the Year", have been murdering anyone who may potentially damage the village's image. Angel discovers the bodies of various "problem" people whom the NWA have disposed of (several of whom Angel had encountered earlier in the movie), before being cornered and stabbed by Danny, apparently a member of the NWA.

Angel is not harmed, however; having tricked the NWA into believing that Angel is dead, Danny instead drives him to the village limits and releases him, insisting that he knew nothing about their true activities. Danny urges Angel to flee, reasoning that no one would believe the truth about Sandford. However, whilst at a rest stop Angel sees the two movies he and Danny bonded over on a nearby sales rack (Point Break and Bad Boys II) and is inspired to stop the NWA once and for all; to that end, he drives back to town and arms himself with the confiscated weapons seized earlier in the movie. After Angel meets with Danny in the village, the two begin to dispatch the members of the NWA in an increasingly destructive and frantic series of gun fights.

Initially confronted by their colleagues in the Sandford Police Service (who are quickly persuaded of the truth), Angel and Danny take the battle to the supermarket. Skinner and Inspector Butterman flee, and are pursued by Angel and Danny to a nearby model village, where both are eventually subdued. Although Angel's old supervisors arrive from London begging Angel to return, as their crime statistics have risen drastically seemingly as a result of his absence, Angel elects to remain in Sandford. Back at the police station, the Sandford Police celebrate their triumph and attempt to complete their paperwork, but are ambushed by a remaining member of the NWA. He attempts to shoot Angel but Danny jumps in front of the blast. In the resulting chaos a confiscated naval mine is triggered and the station is destroyed. One year later, Angel lays flowers on a grave marked 'Butterman'; it is revealed that Danny has survived, however, and that the grave is his mother's. Angel has been promoted to Inspector and Danny to Sergeant, and the film ends as they go back to working the beat together in Sandford.

Cast


British singer and actor Joseph McManners also played a cameo role as a schoolboy at the climatic battle scene of the movie, however, his background story and an entire sub-plot surrounding his character was cut from the final version and can only be found on the DVD. Stephen Merchant also makes a brief appearance where at the end of the film when Angel is offered his job back in London just before he can be seen with the swan. [2]

Production

Director Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg spent eighteen months writing the script.[3] During the latter half of 2005, Working Title approached several towns in South West England looking for an appropriate filming location. Simon Pegg commented "We're both from the West Country so it just seemed like it was the perfect and logical thing to drag those kind of ideas and those genres and those clichés back to our beginnings to where we grew up, so you could see high-octane balls-to-the-wall action in Frome".[4]

Stow-on-the-Wold was considered amongst others, but after being turned away, the company settled upon Wells,[5] Edgar Wright's hometown. Wright has commented "and Wells is very picturesque [...] I love it but I also want to trash it".[6] Filming also took place at the Hendon Police College, including the driving school skid pan and athletic track.[7]

Wright has said that it takes elements from his final amateur film, Dead Right, which he described as both "Lethal Weapon set in Somerset" and "a Dirty Harry film in Somerset".[6] He uses some of the same locations in both films including the Somerfield supermarket, where he used to work as a shelf-stacker.[6]

The film parodies clichés used in other action movies. On the topic of perceived gun fetishes in these movies, Pegg has said "Men can't do that thing, which is the greatest achievement of humankind, which is to make another human, so we make metal versions of our own penises and fire more bits of metal out of the end into peoples heads [...] It's our turn to grab the gun by the hilt and fire it into your face".[4] Despite this, Pegg maintains that the film is not a spoof in that, '"They lack the sneer that a lot of parodies have that look down on their source material. Because we're looking up to it."[8] The film was scored by David Arnold (well known for his James Bond series scores since 1997).

Filming commenced on March 19, 2006[9] and lasted for 11 weeks.[10] Throughout the filming process Pegg, Frost and Wright recorded a regular video blog which is available on the Hot Fuzz section of the Working Title website. Wright cut half an hour from the film.[11] Advanced screenings of the film took place on the 14 February 2007 in the UK and was fully released on 16 February 2007. The film had a limited release in Canada and the USA on 20 April 2007. The film carries a 15 certificate in the UK and is rated 14A in Canada for gory scenes and coarse language and is rated R in the US for violent content including some graphic images, and language.

Box office and critical reception

The film generated £7.1 million in its first weekend of release in UK cinema.[12]

Critically, the movie received positive reviews, and was rated almost as highly as their previous film, Shaun of the Dead.[13] It has a 90% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes[14]. Olly Richards of Empire said of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost "After almost a decade together they’re clearly so comfortable in each other’s presence that they feel no need to fight for the punchline, making them terrific company for two hours".[15] Johnny Vaughan of The Sun already called it the "most arresting Brit-com of 2007".[16] Phillip French of The Observer, who did not care for Shaun of the Dead, warmed to the comedy team in this film.[17] The film also received positive reviews stateside. Derek Elley of Variety praised Broadbent and Dalton, "[who] are especially good as Angel's hail-fellow-well-met superior and oily No. 1 suspect".[18] As an homage to the genre, the film was well received by screenwriter Shane Black.[19]

However, the The Daily Mirror only gave Hot Fuzz 2/5, stating that "many of the jokes miss their target" as the film becomes more action-based.[20] Daily Mail also shared The Mirror's view, saying that "It's the lack of any serious intent that means too much of it is desperately unamusing, and unamusingly desperate".[21] Anthony Quinn of The Independent said "The same impish spirit [as Spaced] is uncorked here, but it has been fatally indulged".[22]

The film was met with a wealth of critical praise when it opened in the US on April 20, 2007. Currently, it has a high metacritic score of 81.[23] It made $5.8 million in its opening weekend from only 825 theatres. Hot Fuzz also had the highest per-theatre average of any film in the top ten that week. Its opening weekend take beat the $3.3 million opening weekend take of Pegg and Wright's previous film, Shaun of the Dead. In its second weekend of release, Rogue Pictures expanded the film's theatre count from 825 to 1,272 and it grossed $4.9 million, representing a 17% dip in the gross. As of June 23, 2007, Hot Fuzz has grossed $74,193,041 .[24] Not only did it in 9 weeks make nearly twice what Shaun of the Dead made in the US but it also made more than three times Shaun did in other countries.[25]

DVD

The DVD was released on 11 June 2007 in the UK and 8 June 2007 in Ireland. Disc one of the two disc set contains the feature film with four commentaries, outtakes, trailers and TV spots, 'The Man Who Would Be Fuzz', 'Hot Funk', Fuzz-o-meter, storyboards and 'Flick Book: The Other Side'. Disc two contains 22 deleted scenes with optional commentary, a making of documentary, 13 video blogs, featurettes, plot holes and comparisons, special effects feature, galleries and some hidden easter eggs. The DVD also features Wright's last amateur film Dead Right which he described as "Hot Fuzz without the budget". A making of Dead Right is also included on the second disc. Due to the above release date, the movie arrives on region 2 DVD earlier than the theatrical release date in Germany on 14th June, 2007.[26]

The U.S. DVD and HD DVD release of Hot Fuzz came out on July 31, 2007. According to the official site so far, the HD DVD edition has more special features than the standard DVD release.

Soundtrack

Main article: Hot Fuzz (soundtrack)

The soundtrack was released February 22, 2007 in the UK, and April 17, 2007 in Canada and the USA. The UK (and EU) release includes eight tracks not on the US/Canada version.

References

  1. ^ "Interview: Edgar Wright for "Hot Fuzz"".
  2. ^ Official News Updates at www.joemcmanners.com (accessed June 23, 2007)
  3. ^ Joe Utichi (2007-02-13). "Countryside Commandoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-02-13. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ a b "Week Four 2007". The Culture Show. 2007-02-10. BBC 2. {{cite episode}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |episodelink= (help); Unknown parameter |serieslink= ignored (|series-link= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Thank God we did screen film event". Cotswold Journal. 2006-08-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b c "Episode 2 - Around the West Country and into Wales". The Comedy Map of Britain. 2007-02-03. BBC 2. {{cite episode}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |episodelink=, |city=, and |serieslink= (help); External link in |title= (help)
  7. ^ List of locations used in Wells, Somerset
  8. ^ Clark Collis (2007-04-13). "Brits and Giggles". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2007-04-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Filming under way on Hot Fuzz". Working Title Films. 2006-03-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Hot Fuzz". Channel 4.
  11. ^ Patrick Kolan (2007-03-13). "Interview With Edgar Wright". IGN. Retrieved 2007-03-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "Hot Fuzz heats up UK box office". BBC. 2007-02-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "Shaun of the Dead". Rotten Tomatoes.
  14. ^ "Hot Fuzz". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
  15. ^ Olly Richards. "Hot Fuzz". Empire. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
  16. ^ Johnny Vaughan (2007-02-16). "The Plod Couple". The Sun. Retrieved 2007-03-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ Phillip French (2007-02-18). "Hot Fuzz". The Observer. Retrieved 2007-03-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ Derek Elley (2007-02-20). "Hot Fuzz". Variety. Retrieved 2007-02-23. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ Patrick Kolan (2007-03-13). "Interview With Edgar Wright (page 2)". IGN. Retrieved 2007-03-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ "Hot Fuzz". Daily Mirror.
  21. ^ Chris Tookey (20 February 2007). "It aims. It fires. And yet somehow it misses". Daily Mail. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  22. ^ Anthony Quinn (2007-02-16). "Crime and Punishment". The Independent. Retrieved 2007-03-05. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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  24. ^ Box Office Mojo: HOT FUZZ
  25. ^ Box Office Mojo : SHAUN OF THE DEAD
  26. ^ Kino De: Hot Fuzz - Zwei abgewichste Profis Template:De icon
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