Hot Fuzz
- 2007 film
Hit comedy film from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright. PC Nicholas Angel transfers from London's Met Police to the sleepy village of Sandford. Stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Timothy Dalton and more.
Streaming rank this week: 172
Press clippings
Adam Buxton trends after falling church spire recalls his Hot Fuzz death
Comedian and podcaster Adam Buxton has been trending on Twitter today after Storm Eunice caused the Spire of St Thomas's Church in Wells, Somerset to come crashing to the ground. For many Buxton fans this echoed the scene in the movie Hot Fuzz in which his reporter character Tim Messenger is killed by a falling spire. Hot Fuzz was filmed in Wells.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th February 2022Property used in Hot Fuzz being sold at auction
Fans of cult comedy film Hot Fuzz starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg should start counting their pennies ahead of Acuitus's auction on 16 June, when a rare opportunity to buy a property in (the fictional town of) Sandford is due to go on sale.
Property Week, 11th June 2021Simon Pegg: why Hot Fuzz 2 probably won't happen
"I'm probably too old now."
Justin Harp, Digital Spy, 20th May 2020'Hot Fuzz' police 'arrest' St Ives 'road rage' swan
They posted photos of the suspect using the hashtag #HotFuzz, referring to the spoof film Hot Fuzz in which city cop Simon Pegg apprehends a criminal swan.
BBC, 18th September 2017Hot Fuzz 2: Edgar Wright refuses to rule out sequel
Edgar Wright has sparked rumours of a Hot Fuzz sequel by refusing to rule out the possibility. The filmmaker will never say never to a follow-up.
The Independent, 10th June 201710 top tens for Hot Fuzz's tenth
This year, after watching Hot Fuzz for the tenth time, and still picking up little details I'd never noticed before, I went down to the pub for a glass of celebratory cranberry juice. I thought Anglonerd magazine, too, should celebrate the brilliance of this film in a big way, so here is not just a top ten list, but ten top ten lists, highlighting the best one hundred things about Edgar Wright's comedy action flick. *Spoilers*
Jaime Pond, Anglonerd, 14th February 2017Firearms police criticised after posting Hot Fuzz clip
West Midlands firearms police have been criticised after posting a clip from comedy Hot Fuzz on their official Twitter account as a thank you to followers.
ITV News, 8th November 2016Hot Fuzz: ultra-rare action-comedy that doesn't suck
2007's Hot Fuzz, the second movie in director Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy, is a straight-up comedy, the first I've written up in this space.
Tom Breihan, The Concourse, 27th June 2015Following up a cult comedy hit like Shaun Of The Dead was a tough call but co-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright triumph here. Part two in their 'Cornetto trilogy' (Part three, The World's End, is out in August) casts Pegg as an eager-beaver cop whose over-achievement makes him unpopular with colleagues. Shipped off to a sleepy backwater and teamed with a laid-back bozo (Frost), he is surprised to find village life isn't as innocent as it first seems.
A comedy that gets funnier every time you rewatch it, this brilliantly parodies Hollywood studio action buddy-movies such as Bad Boys. We love that its sole raison d' être was allowing Pegg and Frost to live their movie dream of getting to shoot guns in both hands while leaping in slow motion.
Carol Carter and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 3rd May 2013Nick Frost: Hot Fuzz sequel to start shooting in 2012
Nick Frost has revealed some of the plans for the follow-up to Hot Fuzz. A draft has been completed for the third film in Frost and Simon Pegg's 'Cornetto Trilogy', which has the working title of The World's End.
Hugh Armitage, Digital Spy, 12th December 2011