Keeping a good, strong comedy team together in today's film industry isn't as easy as it may seem, between prior commitments and money, sometimes you only get to see a team-up once and that's it. After the success of Shaun of the Dead the two lead actors, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, join together with director Edgar Wright to do too the police-action films what they did to zombie films. From beginning to end this is a comedy that doesn't pull any punches, picking fun at everything from British society to the parodying of action film sequences.
When a straight laced London officer is promoted, and transferred to a small sleepy village he begins to uncover a series of gruesome accidents that maybe foul play in disguise. The mystery itself is set up quite well with all the twists and turns of any great story, and with the way that the characters deal with the "accidents" helps the story progress at a nice pace. With the change of Pegg's character we see the transformation the by the book cop who finally realizes that sometimes you have to push the envelope in order to get people to see the truth and to solve the case. Even though some of the sequences are reminiscent of some of the great action films of the past thirty years, here they have the feel of being fresh and new.
This film is as fun as Shaun and has the same snappy lines and situations that keep the audience interested in the story and the characters. This is another one of those films that won't get a lot of play time because there are still so many people that just don't get British comedy. But if you give it a chance it goes far beyond just the British side of comedy and with the jokes about American action films your left with two hours of fun and laughs.
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