Everything GREAT About Hot Fuzz! 

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 RU-vid doesn't like about robot heads exploding with blue goo and probably reupload it.

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.

Fun Fact: When Joyce shouts Fascist at Angel, she's using an MP43, a weapon used by the Waffen SS in WW2- fascists.

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.

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

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

I love thay while Cate Blanchett is uncredited as Janine, the guy Simon accidentally speaks to first is credited as "Not Janine"

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.

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.

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 just love how this quintessential British film made for British audiences has gained international fame.

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

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.

This movie genuinely has one of the tightest written scripts and direction of all time.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

I love that the paperwork scenes have jump cuts and are shot like an action scene, cracks me up every 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

20:00 Fun fact, that was an actual supermarket that the company let Hot Fuzz effectively destroy for the film.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 😂

Olivia Colman should have gotten a win too. She is golden. Amazing video besides missing another win, so let's add it here.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

This is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. Not a single bad scene!

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.

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 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.

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.

Edward Woodwards Oh God No is the last line he said in The Wicker Man.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

I actually live in a small village like this, and although it’s not ‘murder to preserve the village’ level, people do actually get pretty nasty about the upkeep of the village and get into a lot of social media arguments about things ‘ruining the community’. It’s why this film is so great at what it does- it’s just so incredibly on point about village life in the UK.

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.

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.

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 swear ive seen this before like a year or two ago

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!

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 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 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.

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

You missed the fact that Tony's got his helmet on too tight... Nick and Danny's relationship is the straight-man of the movie.

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”

Hot Fuzz is an absolute triumph of a movie. It's so brilliantly written and Pegg and Frost are fantastic.

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 the fact it's based in England instead of USA, not a lot of media does that and it's great when a movie or TV show is set outside the country that everything has to be set in. also the fact that it's in England also means certain actors from British media appear here! like the supermarket guy is the guy who plays Rassilon in Doctor Who series four's two parter finale

I love that every citizen of Sandford has a surname that used to be a job. Cartwright, Wainwright, Farmer, Staker, Hatcher

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

Greatest comedy and arguably greatest British film ever made.

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.

@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.

Top tier film, British or otherwise, also, the delivery and Danny's pause when saying "you ain't seen bad boys 2!?" definitely deserved it's own win 😂

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.

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

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

Am I tripping balls or is has he already done Hot Fuzz? I feel like I've seen this

Even after all those rewatch, I still found something new from this movie. Easily my top 5 movies since I first watched it.

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 like how well they show the range of types of relationships in the Cornetto Trilogy. Shaun and Ed are friends, Angel and Danny are romantic, Gary and Andy are estranged.

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 😅

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.

The NWA surveillance chief is played by Edward Woodward, who's most famous for his performance in the film The Wicker Man. There he plays a constable who travels to a remote English village to investigate a mysterious disappearance whilst at the whims of a psychotic murderous cult under the sway of a leader who proclaims the deaths are all for the good of the Island. Sound familiar?

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

Without question my all-time favourite comedy movie 😊

Am I going mad or did I see this already?

Thank you. Absolutely love your videos. There's too many channels tearing movies apart. Glad to see someone building them up and appreciating them for what they are.

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.

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 don't usually rewatch the 2 parters you combine together but the cornetto trilogy is my favourite 3 films of all time

The best piece of the Cornetto Trilogy

It's amusing that when I first watch Hot Fuzz I always thought David Bradley was just mumbling nonsense, but I've heard him talk enough times now that I can actually understand what he says as Arthur

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.

Legendary film. Top ten of all time. I will die on this hill

Fully agreed that Hot Fuzz is my favorite of this trilogy, by far. It's just so sweet and clever and hilarious. I make all my friends watch it 😂

Also the church part that Skinner got impaled on was the one he pushed onto Messenger writ-small.

This is one of my favorite movies ever. Thank you so much for this! 🤜🤛

Ah, excellent, one of the greatest movies ever made, nice choice.

Also! -cottage isn't ready = covered in murder -everyone has gruesome sense of humor = the kind of people that think murder is fine/a solution -twins named roger and martin = two guys that died -sacrifices his peace lily to save his life and fight back = peace is no longer an option These are things I've only just realised now, and you pointed out a few I've never noticed, even though I've seen this movie dozens of times! There's SO much going on. Not a shot wasted, multi-layer dialogue, sound and lighting even adds to the storytelling; like when he's hit in the eyes with the car light when that kid laughs; they're so obviously under-age it's blinding. The whole greater good/community thing too, such a classic 'small town politics' that so many of us growing up in the country know well. The people who think they run the town and they kinda do, their ruthless methods while being sweet on the surface, the 'not a local' discrimination... i could wax for hours on this movie. Cinematic perfection that also isn't boring or intellectual. 100/10

One of the subtle things in this movie, is the names of the townsfolk. Not only are they occupations, but somewhat descriptive of the characters (Martin Blower - blows a lot of nonsense out of his mouth, Eve Draper - Eavesdropper, etc.) That there is just one more example of the genius of this writing.