Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz

Sidey: Part two of the Corno Trilogy. This is, that's hot fuzz. You're being pretty rude, Pete.

Cris: I'm listening

I'm just getting the Hot Fuzz synopsis up as an aid memoir.

Sidey: You inspired this one 'cause you've been watching, you watched all three of the

Cris: I did. I re I re it in. I, I like quite like binge watching

Pete: themed

Cris: things at the moment and yeah. Porn. Yeah. And that

Sidey: do you know the, the corner of color?

Cris: This is

Pete: Mint?

Sidey: No, that's the last one. This one's blue for the

Cris: Okay.

Vanilla. Yeah.

Sidey: Red for sure. And the

Cris: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sidey: So we meet I think it's Nicholas Angel. He's a real high flyer.

Cris: Yeah. He's he's in the Metropolitan Police and he's, he's basically, I mean, who, who are the guy? So you've got I always forget his name. The Hobbit Bilbo

Baggins. Martin Freeman. You got Martin Freeman.

That it is brilliant because these, these are like three really good.

Sidey: well,

first of all, there's a montage [00:01:00] of him going through his

Pete: doing what

Cris: he does.

Sidey: So he, he's amazing. He's got a PhD and a blah, blah, blah. Yeah. And then we see him doing his training where

Reegs: He's a super cop.

Sidey: He's shooting here, he is doing his thing and he does his advanced driving and after the advanced driving advanced, mountain mind, he does a, like a

Cris: skid the camera.

Yeah, yeah,

Sidey: And then we, like he is, you know, he's got the stats up and up and up. And they can't have that 'cause he's making the rest of the force. bad. So Martin Freeman, you're right. Brings,

him

Reegs: have we already gone past a bit where Kate

Sidey: is? No, it's after this. He, but he is been told to fuck off. So yeah, Martin Freeman says, you

know.

Pete: yeah, well

Cris: Well, it's Martin Freeman,

Sidey: he says, and he says, no, no, I'm not accepting that I need to speak to the Superintendent Superior, which is Steve Coogan. which is Cogan.

Cris: Cogan. Yeah. And he says exactly

Sidey: the same thing. And there's a gag where they keep saying the same, the same thing to, him. yeah. And then, and then he brings that the Bill chief superintendent, it was bill Nye.

Yeah. And he says, no, no, you are just, he just explicitly says, you make us look bad, you've gotta fuck off the Sanford. Yeah.

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: and then he goes to the this murder scene. Where there's a load of forensics people and [00:02:00] it's Kate Blanche, I think Uncredited.

Yeah.

Cris: You don't see her face know exactly.

Sidey: see her eyes and he can sort of tell it's her voice once, you know.

And she just points out that he's just married to the force. He's like an absolute company man. No time for. her. And he's completely driven by his obsessive, like, need to be in the police force. So Force is not the official guidelines. It's police service.

Reegs: That is a pretty funny gag to have though. The biggest star in your

Sidey: more

Peter Jackson's in it as well.

Yeah. so he, yeah, he's just, so it is all three of the one Corno films and say, like basically Simon Peg.

Not realizing that there's something going on. You know, So the first one, he, he is sort of t trawling around town like, and he doesn't realize that there's a zombie apocalypse.

Second one, he doesn't realize that it's something going on that, you know, this

Reegs: a small town corruption.

Sidey: And the third one doesn't, it's the Stepford wire step doesn't realize there's all these like robotic things going, on, extraterrestrials, whatever they are. So this one, he's, yeah, he's ported into this.

He's a fish outta [00:03:00] water. He. his first night in Sanford, he goes to the pub. To try and relax with a cranberry juice. And he

Reegs: they all stop talking, don't they?

Sidey: he

can't help but like pacify the, the thing 'cause all the kids are in there drinking. Yeah. And he says to the one kid right, when's your birthday?

5th of May. What year? Every year out. And then he just launches all the kids outta there. They're obviously blatantly underage drinking. In the end he takes all of them and Nick Frost Danny to the police station. And they're just not used to this sort of thing. They just turn a blind eye to everything for the greater good.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: They're not interested in.

the finer details of the law, that, you know, I mean, there's no real crime going on here. It's a few people,

you

know, you could stuff that you could definitely turn a blind eye to.

Pete: Yeah. So it's all like,

Cris: you know, mis misdemeanors and they Yeah, they, they definitely, but like you say yeah, they, they want to keep the, the crime stats really low.

Pete: and

Cris: you've already had, I think that, that, you know, you've got the, the guys who run the pub, like the husband, wife, like, and,

Pete: what [00:04:00] becomes the mantra

Cris: of, of the, the, the village, the town or whatever is for the greater good.

greater good. Very good. Yeah. At

Reegs: At what point does he get paired up with Nick Frost?

Sidey: He's arrested him because he's been steaming in the pub. And then he's seen him try to get into his car to drive home? Yeah. So he rests him and takes him in and he's in the cells and when he goes in the morning, he's not there. He thinks he's broken out. Yeah. And it's Bill Bailey.

Cris: Yes.

Sidey: There's

two Bill Bailey's and he's like, no, And then he rocks up in his uniform.

He's like, what the fuck So, they're obsessed with him because he's from the city. Yeah. Whereas there, this is just

like

Reegs: he's like a folk hero

Sidey: Yeah. Well, to Nick Frost. Anyway, the rest of 'em just think he's a dickhead. Yeah. Especially the two Andes. Nick Frost, like, have you ever shot your gun?

And going, ah,

I,

I can assure you there's nothing good about shooting a gun. And

Reegs: Because he obsessively watches point break,

Cris: yeah, yeah, yeah,

Sidey: yeah. So, the, so once their stuff happens and they, their relationship grows then they, they form this sort of connection and they get pissed one night and he said, and so what I read [00:05:00] was that there was going to be a love interest for Simon P'S character, okay.

And they decided to get rid of that. But Rather than rewrite it, they just gave

Reegs: the seeds to

Sidey: that dialogue to, Nick, to Nick

Cris: Ross.

Sidey: So when he, they go out in the piss and he, and he is like, right, I'm gonna go home. He says, well, do you wanna come in for a coffee? That would've been like a scene between, you know, him and his love interest. brilliant.

He goes, oh, watch a movie. So then he, what he is showing him all these stupid, like over the top, police movies. Yeah. Point break. And Bad boys too.

Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah, bad boys too. He is. Michael Bay's the peak, isn't

Sidey: Which, you know, you're gonna see like recreations of later on in the film He is starting to sort of loosen up a bit.

He's having a few drinks now and they're they're connecting. But at the same time, and this is where Edgar Wright's kind of style comes in, where it's just like fast cuts all the time. So they're

watching the

Reegs: of repetition of

stuff.

Sidey: whilst the film's going on that they're watching it will cut to like the first murder.

And it's been like fairly prosaic, like funny, but you know, English countryside, it's all a bit like blah, blah, blah. [00:06:00] Yeah. Now we get, we see a hooded character. I think the first one to go is the guy who's built the big, like plastic mansion in the countryside that they all hate.

Cris: No, the first to Go is,

Sidey: oh no, sorry.

It's Romeo and

Cris: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Romeo and Juliet. Yeah.

Sidey: They've been to the show. He's arrested him. Wait, He's, he's cautioned him for speeding. Someone peg Nicholas Angel

and just to kind of like bribe them, he's given him tickets, to this shy amram performance of Romeo

Reegs: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sidey: We don't know why they're killed necessarily. But yeah, the first one, it's an ax murdering, and then you see two decapitated heads on the road and it's staged to be. a Road Traffic

Cris: accident. Yeah. Accident where they, where they get decapitated, but,

Sidey: and then Timothy Dalton turns up I fucking Love this running gag where he keeps turning up at the crime scene with music playing.

That's of the, of the

Pete: Yeah.

Cris: Yeah. He's got Romeo and Julia playing in his car. He's straight Rome. Yeah. But they, they're, what, you know about the, the, those two, the two get killed, is that they're having an

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: Yeah. Mm-hmm.

And obviously it's, and he's the, the guy's much older and it's kind of like,

Pete: you know. It,

Cris: it, [00:07:00] it's, it's known.

But it's the, the rest of the village are, are not comfortable with it. Mm-hmm. Because Simon Peg says the only believable bit about the whole thing is the kiss. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. So they have that, that's that murder. Then the next guy that gets killed Yeah. Is the, the property developer. and No, He is the the freezer magnet isn't

Cris: name.

Yeah.

Sidey: And he that's a good gag. Yeah. He he has built this awful mansion out in the countryside that like they all hate. So he is killed. Yeah. And there's someone else is killed. I

Cris: Oh, the, the journalist is Adam Buxton.

Sidey: And so Someone Peck like goes through it all and he's, you know, he is like one of those conspiracy things with a

string all over it And he is like, oh, because they knew that and and this and this and this. Really convoluted, but sort of like fairly

Pete: Yeah,

Cris: yeah, yeah. How they're all

Sidey: might have all got killed. and it all just comes down to they were a bit shit in the town. Like they didn't like the AMDAs because. there was someone who'd been an extra in straw dogs and someone who played a cadaver. He was the, like, Tim Messenger was just a shit newspaper editor, editor with [00:08:00] load of spelling mistakes and,

Pete: they

Cris: didn't like the guy's house.

Sidey: the other guy's house. scary It's just,

Reegs: small town

Sidey: completely

Cris: Yeah.

Because the,

the florist, the florist gets like murdered pretty much in front of, like in front.

He goes in to buy some flowers. That

Pete: And that, that she,

Cris: she, whilst his back's turned, she gets murdered with like the shears. Yeah. And then that's when you first kind of like, he sees the, the cloaked figure and, and sets off on a chase with him. But you find out later that she got killed because she was gonna leave the village and thought that if she rocked up at another village, they'd, they have flowers, they'd have better flower arranging and that, so,

Sidey: so you know, it is gonna culminate with, all the violence and all the stuff that they're paying homage to, you're gonna get that played out and the scene. But there's

loads

Reegs: there's a supermarket scene isn't there with

Cris: Yeah, it's a big shootout.

Sidey: they go, they go to Cher's farm, don't they? Yeah. And he's just got a million weapons, which they take back to the police station.

Yeah. And then you get SEPA go there when it's all about to kick off because he's like, he's. He's caught the at it and he just gets [00:09:00] massively toed up and he just like comes into town

Reegs: on the horse. Yeah. I

Sidey: And there's a couple of old GIMs. Well, no, first of all he does, he does. The guy is it the doctor?

I can't remember. But there's another, there's a woman behind a, a wall and he just like flying kicks around. the fence. It's amazing. It's so over the top of violence, but there's loads of funny lines. It also. Predates this, is, I think where Bagger comes from because they talk about making Sanford great again.

Reegs: Oh, right. Oh, so it was

Sidey: so that's like, whoa,

Cris: Right.

That was the precursor to Yeah. Trump's

campaigns.

Sidey: There's the two like detective guys, the Andes Yeah. Which is

Pete: pad

Cris: Considine. pat

Sidey: Conine. Pat Conine and race. race ball. it is race ball. Yeah. And they've got a real beer in their bonnet about him because he's proper police.

so They're just like

Reegs: small town, just

Sidey: two

Reegs: hicks.

Sidey: And one of 'em says to him, I think it's a very small system, you wanna be a big cop in a small town, fuck up, up, up to the model village

I thought it was fucking brilliant. And

loads and loads of really good jokes like that. There's an [00:10:00] ongoing and. Pivotal to the plot thing about Swan?

Cris: Yes.

Sidey: Where someone, someone, it's Steven Merchant phones up and he is like, Staker, Peter, Ian Staker. He is, oh, Mr. Piss taker.

it, But it,

is genuine. And he has to give a description of the swan, which is really funny.

So yeah. Then it just becomes like the actually violent bit.

Yeah.

Reegs: That it's been

Sidey: Which is Great.

Because even the, the captain Jim Broadband

Reegs: he's in

Sidey: he's in it

He's,

in on

Cris: He's brilliant.

Sidey: His wife is killed,

I

don't think he was in it originally, but once his wife had killed himself, it all became about protecting her legacy and the village and all

Reegs: local community thing, isn't

it?

Pete: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sidey: And

Reegs: yeah. 'cause it's like the elders, isn't it? Of the

Cris: Yeah. Which the neighborhood watch

Reegs: Oh,

yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: So they, we, we get to see Nick Frost points the gun at his old man. while he is lying on the floor like exactly like Keanu.

Can't do it. Points the gun in there and goes

Yeah.

And loads of crazy violence. They have the bit where they've both got shotguns and they're stood there and the fucking police [00:11:00] helicopter comes up. Exactly like our bad

Reegs: bad

boys too.

Sidey: Yeah.

it's so good.

Reegs: It's a car chase as well, isn't

Sidey: it? There's a,

So they have the bit, like you said in the, in the supermarket. Where this one bit, where Patty ton's hiding like, you know, like the aisles of the supermarket, he's on the corner and the people are. Throwing stuff at him and they hit a thing, of do

and the other and He goes, oh no. He goes, don't worry, it's just fallen. Na.

And so after that fight Timothy Dodson legs it off.

He steals the police car and they have to chase after him. Yeah. And they have the fight in the model village where he gets impaled on

the

Reegs: right.

Sidey: The church fire

goes

Cris: through his face. Yeah.

Reegs: The irony.

Sidey: he is not, he is not dead. He is just

naked.

Ah, really hurts. Where does it go after that? I can't remember.

Cris: Well, that, that's pretty much the,

Sidey: well, yeah. it's Jim Broadband. Jim Broadband comes then and, and says to them, you know, you fucked it up, whatever he gets in the car he's gonna hightail it off. But the goose, the swan has got in [00:12:00] the car and like PS him in the face attacks him and he just sort of tamely crashes the car into a tree and is arrested.

And then it's back to the police station now where Simon Peg is like fully invested in. Country life He's now. They all respect

him and they all like his vibe. Olivia Coleman's been in it just being, making all these really slutty like innuendo

Cris: Yeah. Yeah. It's like Carry, she's from like a carry on film.

Isn.

Sidey: Which now Simon Peg Nicolas Angel, like is on board with the gags and says something about manpower to, her and they were, oh

Cris: Lord.

Pete: oh, you dirty bastard.

Yeah.

Sidey: But there's been a mine, this ongoing thing about this mine that they've found and the guy that has been running the neighborhood watch.

With all the cameras they've forgotten about him.

Reegs: All right.

Cris: That's Edward Woodward.

Yeah.

Sidey: he's got this massive like blunder bus style gun. Yeah. And he comes through and Danny jumps in front and saves Nicholas. He takes, he takes

the bullet and they, they, he.

Nicholas Angel like does this thing with a bin where he like kicks it up in the [00:13:00] air and volleys it at him, which knocks the guy back onto the mine, which they, the whole time they thought had been deactivated and it hasn't. Yeah. And it fucking detonates and the whole station goes up. Damn. Yeah. Kablamo. Yeah.

But they're not dead. No, they're all right.

Pete: Yeah.

Cris: Yeah. Well, EWA

Sidey: but yeah,

very much so.

Pete: Yeah,

Cris: That's what that, that that the, I

Sidey: think we just cut back to no, there's, he's putting flowers on a grave, isn't he? Simon Opa. and you think, oh, is it 'cause the flowers are just obscuring enough but showing Yeah, the surname on the, the headstone.

But it's it's the mom of Danny. And Danny then comes into shot, he's like, oh yeah, I think they're all right, blah, blah, blah. And it's just them then, like on patrol in the police car and a thing comes over the PA saying, oh, we've got, you know, some youth like pushing a bin around like some Absolutely.

Like.

Minor,

Minor, minor indiscretion and they like

Cris: slam it be And twos on. Yeah.

Sidey: LEAs And twos Yeah. Leason twos. Foot down. hand break, turn. off. They're legging it down there. Absolutely loving it. Yeah. And the big fucking visuals come up. Pop fires, bang. [00:14:00]

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: Great.

Reegs: Yeah. Good. I had fun time remembering it as you described it.

Yeah.

Sidey: For me, this is a fucking 10 outta 10.

Cris: It, it is absolutely great because Shorter of the Dead was, was like That's great. Brilliant.

Sidey: I'm not so hot on the third one.

Pete: No,

Cris: I don't like it.

Pete: like, it's,

Cris: It's, it is a good, it is a good enough sort of premise, like to a point, and then it kind of like disappears of its own ASRS a little bit towards the end, but.

I like Hot Fuz is right up there with Sean and the dead. I feel like you might even put it slightly

Sidey: I probably would. Yeah.

Pete: Yeah.

Cris: I mean, this is like an absolute who's who of like British, like comedy actors and, and British actors, like all just nailing their Absolutely. Like nailing their performances.

Yeah. The, the gags of it. There's like, you know, like visual gags, but like, 'cause it's Edgar Right? Stuff. There's like, there's violence in it, but it's like, you

Pete: comedy, violence still

Cris: quiet.

Pete: you know, full on.

Sidey: I think it works. Just works so well with Edgar Wright's directorial style. Yeah. Those Fast edits and the really like punchy [00:15:00] style.

The cast like say is

Reegs: but then framing it in this like, quaint

Sidey: Yeah. It's just so prepost, so over the top for the location.

Pete: And

Cris: And like, no matter what they do together, the, this, the, you know, this like Frost and Peg have always got this. Sometimes the characters pegs always predominantly more like the, the

Pete: dominant one and

Cris: is more like the stupid one or whatever.

But they, they,

Sidey: did you see the Nick Frost news today? No. He's Hagrid

Cris: in

Sidey: the HBO Harry Potter series.

Pete: No way.

Sidey: Way.

Cris: Wow.

Well, I guess it

Reegs: Live reaction from Peter

Cris: Wow. Yeah. Well, it couldn't have been Robbie or Tray. No.

Sidey: John Lithgow.

Yeah.

They

Pete: They got an

Cris: American?

Sidey: Yeah, I know people, A lot of fans were like

Reegs: and Potter. Do you see that?

Sidey: No. they're not. They

Reegs: Miley

Sidey: side.

Cris: Oh wow. That'll be brilliant. They're

Sidey: gonna, I think the, three, those three will be

Cris: quite horny now, actually. Like now I think about it.

Sidey: I

think Snape is black. they

Reegs: master

of the Dark Arts[00:16:00]

Sidey: I didn't

Cris: Serious Black. No, I, that would be a twist.

Sidey: the actor's name, but I think it's a black fellow.

Cris: Okay.

Sidey: So a bit of a, a deviation from

Pete: well, we, and we are deviating from

Cris: hot flash here as well, but.

Pete: It is

Sidey: It's got the best bond in this as well.

Cris: Wow. This is Timothy Dalton's best performance by a mile. He's so fucking brilliant. He is fucking brilliant. And it, he just, he does

Reegs: got that little mustache, hasn't he?

Sidey: he? He's got a portrait on his wall in his office behind him himself doing this like cheesy smile. And he does the

next to

it.

Exact. So good.

Pete: Yeah.

Reegs: love it when they do,

that.

Cris: but, and in it, he's like a. Like part of the plot because he's suspected

Pete: be

Cris: like the masked person, which turns out to be the hound, isn't it?

Pete: like

sandal cocaine.

Cris: Rory, someone, I think his name is like Scottish fellow and he's brilliant.

He's even like, to this day,

Pete: like

Cris: my misses of this film, years and years. What's this? 2007. Yeah. But even to this day, sometimes I'll say to Cindy, oh, should we go and do that? She goes, yeah. Which is all he says in the, the film. But yeah, Dalton

Pete: meant to be this, like, when, when Pegs

Cris: putting [00:17:00] his like

theory together, he, he thinks it's

Pete: Dalton's character

Cris: mastermind. He thinks he's the mastermind and, and because this, this he can't, obviously, he's like, he's a brilliant, you know, he's brilliant in pursuit, even

Pete: foot,

Cris: but he can't keep up with this guy and he thinks

Pete: Timothy

Cris: Dalton because he's like a, you know, a celebrated fun runner or something.

Yeah.

Sidey: apparently. 'cause Dalton was quite a big star for this movie.

Cris: yeah, I mean I think this is before 'cause like Jim Broadband's gone on to be like ma like

Sidey: Yeah. they like, he'd been

Cris: I

Reegs: of them have gone on to have much more clout in Hollywood now than they did then. Yeah.

Cris: Yeah.

Jesus. Yeah. You

Reegs: or Peg went on to Star in the Mission Impossible movies

Cris: Yeah. And the Star Trek stuff

Reegs: and the Star Trek stuff, and Olivia Coleman.

Exactly. And Edgar Wright

Sidey: obviously I know. Amazing

Reegs: and what he's done.

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: I

Reegs: frost is maybe the only one who's like,

Sidey: well, he's still, he's doing more sort of like folky horror stuff as well.

He does that one in the Swedish like rural retreat thing where it becomes [00:18:00] a folk horror thing.

Alright. And doing some sort of lower budget

Reegs: UFOs or whatever it was called. I didn't rate that too

Sidey: much. That

Rupert Quin in it.

I was gonna say, oh yeah, Timothy Dalton. 'cause yeah, what I was gonna say I read was that he was just like, amazing on set.

It was really like, really like. a Good gt. Yeah. And stuff like they would, they did the, the bit where they meet in his office in the supermarket, they filmed that over two days and one was filmed entirely from Timothy Dalton's perspective. Right. And the next day they would film it from So you didn't need to have both

Reegs: Didn't need to be on

Sidey: So when, when they were just in per, he still came and sat. Just sat

so that they could do the thing, which like some people would be like, I'm not fucking wasting a day. Like

Cris: just,

Sidey: sitting in the chair. But he was like, yeah, I'm all

Reegs: I'll be, I'm part of the

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. So another reason why he is the best bond, basically. What?

What a guy.

Cris: But this is like great kind of, I mean obviously it's not modern anymore, but like, you know, British comedy film, the i'd, I'd be interested to know how something like that would be. Hot F would be received in America. 'cause it's like

Reegs: they loved it,

Sidey: Yeah,

Cris: Oh,

did they? Because it is numbers you just can't imagine.

'cause it would be more [00:19:00] spoof and slapstick and stuff if they were gonna do something, you know, like small town with like cops from the city getting pulled in. Yeah.

Pete: where,

Cris: This, this is, you know,

Pete: ha

Cris: Bri Britain and British comedy, like happy to like laugh at themselves and, and

Sidey: might not do so well now in the States now that they hate

all Europeans.

But it was 8 million budget on this and it, sorry, 8 million sterling and it made 80.6 million us.

wows. So it did all right. And I think Sepe had already crossed over. and I think he had done some Mission impossible by the time this came out. Okay. So he was like bonafide. You know, star. Yeah.

Cris: I did, I did actually off the back of this only 'cause it came up straight after on Amazon Prime. I did rewatch run Fat Boy Run, which is shit,

Reegs: I watched that on a plane and it was perfect for

Sidey: on Is it called David Schwimmer in it?

Cris: No, it is. I don't, I can't remember that. Who is, he plays Hank, he's Hank the voice of Hank in the

Reegs: Oh yeah, it is.

Cris: I can't

Sidey: Hank it, Hank Aria. Hank.

Cris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sidey: And he did do, he did do

Cris: for, oh, his name is Hank.

[00:20:00] Mo

He's Mo isn't he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. He's.

Sidey: known a few others. Apu

Retired him and David Truman did a film.

They, they were like grave diggers might be the name of the film

yeah. This is strong. Strong recommend.

Reegs: Yeah, strong

Cris: recommend. Yeah. Strongest.