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I took Lisa to see Hot Fuzz this weekend. It just opened here in the US on Friday, but it released in the UK at least a month ago (lucky Brits), so I’ve been waiting for a while to see it.

Hot Fuzz is brought to you by the same guys who did Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. If you liked Shaun of the Dead, you’re probably going to like Hot Fuzz. Subtle humor and awesome, over the top action sequences once again flow throughout the movie. Like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz starts out slowly, building the story and the characters. Some people may think it’s too slow, but I really enjoy these parts of both movies.

As if Pegg and Frost weren’t already going to make this movie absolutely amazing, Timothy Dalton plays Simon Skinner, a local store owner and all around deviant bad guy (if you can’t figure out that he’s a bad guy early on, check your spider sense). The only other cast member I recognized is Bill Nighy, who played Shaun’s step-dad in Shaun of the Dead. He’s now playing a London police inspector. His appearances are brief, but memorable.

There are a few homages paid to the modern american cop films, namely Point Break and Bad Boys II. I was hoping to get a little John McClain action (ala Die Hard) as well, but sadly there was no “yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker” moment in the movie.

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