The following short review/comment on Hot Fuzz - the new film from Pegg, Frost, and Wright - was published on the Internet Movie Database. The original is availabe here:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0425112/usercomments-63
Awesome film. Loads of well worked homages to action classics.
Fantastic character work from a host of familiar faces; The actor Kevin
Eldon, Bill Bailey, Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine, and Rafe Spall were
particularly good. Some dodgy accents - Frost, you know who you are,
and you wore a Bristol Rovers shirt -how could you! ;), but some very
clever observations on the local mindset - Don't mess with a farmer's
mother, you've been warned!
Pegg, Frost, and Wright have continued in the same strong vein as Shaun of
the Dead. Even stronger in fact, my girlfriend hates Shaun of the Dead
but loved this. It was fast paced but still managed to establish good
story continuity and a great plot - in fact its 2hr duration is
balanced extremely well with gags and action a'plenty.
It was a real bonus to get to the advanced screening - free tickets,
free popcorn, thanks to SeeFilmFirst - it was damn annoying we were so
early in the queue but got funnelled into seats right at the front.
Yes, we were three rows back from Pegg and Frost during the Q/A which was
great, but we had cricks in our necks for the rest of the night.....
stupid Vue cinemas.... Anyway, the guys really took the time to indulge
the fans and it was much appreciated.
In many ways its a great shame that there will be no Spaced 3 but I for
one was glad to hear they are staying away from the This Life +10
format, great comedies finish in their prime leaving you wanting more.
What is a bigger shame is that "La Triviata" seems to have been shelved
due to creative differences between Pegg and Frost and C4, and their now
busy movie schedule - but if they keep turning out films of this
quality the fans should still be kept happy, even if we don't see them on the small screen quite as often.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0425112/usercomments-63
Awesome film. Loads of well worked homages to action classics.
Fantastic character work from a host of familiar faces; The actor Kevin
Eldon, Bill Bailey, Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine, and Rafe Spall were
particularly good. Some dodgy accents - Frost, you know who you are,
and you wore a Bristol Rovers shirt -how could you! ;), but some very
clever observations on the local mindset - Don't mess with a farmer's
mother, you've been warned!
Pegg, Frost, and Wright have continued in the same strong vein as Shaun of
the Dead. Even stronger in fact, my girlfriend hates Shaun of the Dead
but loved this. It was fast paced but still managed to establish good
story continuity and a great plot - in fact its 2hr duration is
balanced extremely well with gags and action a'plenty.
It was a real bonus to get to the advanced screening - free tickets,
free popcorn, thanks to SeeFilmFirst - it was damn annoying we were so
early in the queue but got funnelled into seats right at the front.
Yes, we were three rows back from Pegg and Frost during the Q/A which was
great, but we had cricks in our necks for the rest of the night.....
stupid Vue cinemas.... Anyway, the guys really took the time to indulge
the fans and it was much appreciated.
In many ways its a great shame that there will be no Spaced 3 but I for
one was glad to hear they are staying away from the This Life +10
format, great comedies finish in their prime leaving you wanting more.
What is a bigger shame is that "La Triviata" seems to have been shelved
due to creative differences between Pegg and Frost and C4, and their now
busy movie schedule - but if they keep turning out films of this
quality the fans should still be kept happy, even if we don't see them on the small screen quite as often.
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