Film Night: Hot Fuzz
Feb. 20th, 2007 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesI cried myself laughing from start to finish.
Believe me, I'm not at all the sort of person who laughs at loud at films - certainly not in the cinema - but with this I laughed literally from the first five minutes, and it built and built and built until I was literally crying with laughter at the end - and I have to say that it's only an English audience, perhaps, that can laugh their utter socks off at a building blowing up possibly killing everyone inside.
I don't think the makers were expecting it to be the runaway success it has obviously been (the cinema was packed to the gills and I haven't seen that in four years of cinema going with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
canaries_chick) but (and you know I'm not a gushy reviewer) I can't think of one thing wrong with this film.
It had everything. A brilliantly funny script, dead pan performances (which in the highest comedic tradition make things funnier) a fish out of water theme, various twists and turns, stellar cast!!! (ok, so non-Brits haven't heard of most of them....) and the entire film is a wonderful spoof of Bad Boys/Bad Boys 2 and Point Break. The town square shootout is to be seen to be believed and you'll roar with laughter throughout. Utter - UTTER brilliance. I very much doubt if it will get distribution in the US (I hope I'm wrong) because it doesn't show the English as Upper Class Twits or Gangsters and has far too many English references that made me weep with joy ("she drove her Datsun Cherry into the Gorge").
If you are British and haven't seen - just go and see, you'll do the British Film Industry a power of good and I promise you that you will love it. Not as much as I did, perhaps, but it's hard not to like. If you aren't British, then watch out for the DVD or the release.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/trailers
Even the poster has me giggling.
I'm giving up on mainsteam. I sent a sonnet to a non paying site and got rejected. No more!! *knows where I am well off*
Believe me, I'm not at all the sort of person who laughs at loud at films - certainly not in the cinema - but with this I laughed literally from the first five minutes, and it built and built and built until I was literally crying with laughter at the end - and I have to say that it's only an English audience, perhaps, that can laugh their utter socks off at a building blowing up possibly killing everyone inside.
I don't think the makers were expecting it to be the runaway success it has obviously been (the cinema was packed to the gills and I haven't seen that in four years of cinema going with
canaries_chick) but (and you know I'm not a gushy reviewer) I can't think of one thing wrong with this film.It had everything. A brilliantly funny script, dead pan performances (which in the highest comedic tradition make things funnier) a fish out of water theme, various twists and turns, stellar cast!!! (ok, so non-Brits haven't heard of most of them....) and the entire film is a wonderful spoof of Bad Boys/Bad Boys 2 and Point Break. The town square shootout is to be seen to be believed and you'll roar with laughter throughout. Utter - UTTER brilliance. I very much doubt if it will get distribution in the US (I hope I'm wrong) because it doesn't show the English as Upper Class Twits or Gangsters and has far too many English references that made me weep with joy ("she drove her Datsun Cherry into the Gorge").
If you are British and haven't seen - just go and see, you'll do the British Film Industry a power of good and I promise you that you will love it. Not as much as I did, perhaps, but it's hard not to like. If you aren't British, then watch out for the DVD or the release.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/trailers
Even the poster has me giggling.
I'm giving up on mainsteam. I sent a sonnet to a non paying site and got rejected. No more!! *knows where I am well off*
