Image copyright © by Marcus Trahan

Hot Fuzz

(2007)

The last two films we saw (Hard Candy and Deliver Us From Evil) prompted reviews from me that were more like essays, since they both punched a lot of my rant buttons. Both concerned child molestation, oddly enough. What a relief to be able to write a short rave, about a film containing nothing more than buckets of old-fashioned blood and gore. This is the second effort by the writing/directing/acting team of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, that brought us Shaun of the Dead, one of my favorite spoof comedies. They bring the same sensibility to this send-up of cop/action films, parodying every cliché in those stupid car-chase endless gunfight extravaganzas. As in the first film, it’s not for the squeamish, but it’s hard to take the bloodshed seriously.

Apparently Lee did. She hated it. Lee? [Gratuitous violence in the name of spoof is still gratuitous violence.]