A load of us from work went to see Hot Fuzz (*****) last night. Brought to us by the same team that made Shaun of the Dead it lived up to the success of their first film by providing all the things you’d expect from 'Lethal Weapon meets Miss Marple.’With Simon Pegg as a hot shot cop sent to the country and Nick Frost his bungling country bumpkin sidekick, a serious of suspicious deaths occur in the sleepy village.
The relationship between the pair of them is the central point of the whole thing, as Frost’s Danny looks up to his new mentor.
It’s gag after gag, with hilarious action sequences and a vast selection of amusing characters. Timothy Dalton takes on the main bad guy role, but the whole cast is great.
Paddy Considine, Kevin Eldon, Jim Broadbent, Edward Woodward, Anne Reid, Olivia Coleman, Steve Coogan and many other familiar faces from British TV and film make up the supporting cast.
After the screening we were treated to a Q & A with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The session was hosted by Evening Times film writer Andy Dougan, who despite his attempts to be hip was wholly tedious.
Several of the audience questions pretty much went “Simon I think you are brilliant. I really want you to like me. Can I tell people we are pals?” Of the first two ‘questions’ one guy bought them both a Cornetto and another guy took his Fratellis CD down to be signed.
Of the noteworthy things that came out of it were; there’s pretty much no chance of a third season of Spaced and Simon Pegg thinks he has missed his chance of playing Rorschach in the film of Watchmen because he slagged off director Zack Snyder’s previous film, the remake of Dawn of the Dead.
All in all a good night out and a film I’ll definitely go to see again.
Katie has a kind of review of it up at her blog.
5 comments:
The lot of you are now going to movies instead of the pub (or the LIDL party)? Weak.
This is how skint we are these days Graeme. The Hot Fuzz tickets were free.
The Lidl parties are well down on attendance these days. The last two only had 4 folk. I fear that you were the Party Glue that held us all together.
Fair enough. I'm pouring pints these days for minimum wage, though I'd much rather be doing that than being back in that office.
Yeah me too, though I really can't see you as a barman.
Oh come on, everyone loves a friendly, cheery face behind the bar.
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