Hot Fuzz Is A Buddy Cop Love Story | CineFix Top 100

“Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?”
Hot Fuzz, the second chapter in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s ‘Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy,’ takes the piss out of buddy cop movies in the most loving way possible. The story of a cop who’s too good for his own good transferring to a small town in the country and uncovering a gruesomely violent plot, lampoons its action influences while being a pristine example of the genre in its own right. Clint, Cal and Alex talk about editing paperwork like a fight scene, the comedy chops of Olivia Colman and audio commentary tracks with film references too numerous to keep up with.
Meanwhile, Dan’s algorithm is on the loose and was spotted by the model village.
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[@nardisify]

I've watch Hot Fuzz conservatively a million times. It's close to the probably a perfect film. It's not parody, it's homage. It's not rushed, it's swift. Also the 3 disc set is amazing.

[@CaptainFirefred]

Couldn't agree more with the apreciation of that GOAT of action comedies.

[@anthonyburn1010]

The best of the cornetto trilogy, funny and clever in equal parts

[@Hanokaze]

Hot Fuzz was always my favourite of the "trilogy". I need to watch it again, it's been too long.

[@Zed-fq3lj]

again and again...at least three times a year! 🤩

[@samfisher6606]

I will forever love "Everyone and their mums are packin' 'round here"/"Like who"/ "Farmers."/"Who else?"/"Farmer's mums." and the Aaron A. Aaronson bit.

[@fbritorufino]

Went from not knowing Alex to just LOVING her since this podcast began!

[@NormalTheBand]

Hot Fuzz has been my #1 favorite movie for a while now. Edgar Wright's visual directing style is fantastic, every joke being revisited multiple times makes multiple views a joy, the meticulous care put into all the details pays off wildly.

[@anyone4acupoftea]

Aaron A Arronson is still one of my fave call backs 😂 Brilliant writing!

[@Advent3546]

The Cornetto Trilogy and Hot Fuzz especially have some of the best uses of Setup and Payoff I have ever seen.

[@Zed-fq3lj]

totally agree!

[@highwind1991]

Hot Fuzz is my pick for the best comedy film EVER MADE. It's like the Vertigo of Comedies. Every viewing feels different. Every detail matters. It's so layered. And it's just smart and funny every minute

[@peterbui3733]

One of the best movies to share with people who hasn't seen it.

[@michaelcoss4866]

It was David Blaine, not Chris Angel at Harrison Ford's house

[@fbritorufino]

So no great things done by Chriss Angel I guess lol.

[@lardyboyw]

At the fete Olivia Coleman is looking at a spitroast and you can hear "that'll be me after a couple of pints" which is hilarious and when Angel takes the mic there's a double Andy insult of "prick!" and "wanker!" - so good 👍🏻

[@Zed-fq3lj]

Ah...The Cornetto Trilogy, one of the best ever! Top notch fun all three movies, with Hot Fuzz being (probably) the best! Shaun of the Dead is great, The World's End (my favourite) is soooo underrated and also great! 🥰🥰🥰Rewatching all three is so necessary for bringing back the smile when it's most difficult! Super conversation from CineFix, excellent choice, this was one of your best episodes from Top 100! Good health to you all, keep rolling folks! Greetings from Serbia!

[@kenimiller3896]

A perfect movie I've watched dozens of times. And the soundscape of the entire film is extraordinary, I swear you can watch the whole movie with your eyes closed and still know exactly what is going on on the screen.

[@lougear1]

Had the absolute honour of watching this along with the rest of Edgar Wrights anthology at an all nighter with the man himself and manged to meet him during the night aswell. This came on at about 7am after 10 hours in the cinema and still stands up when the entire room is running low on energy

[@hussd21]

I'm with Clint in that this movie is my favorite of the Cornetto Trilogy, cuz this movie is so funny and badass in equal measure

[@creatinotionchannel2680]

One of my alltime favorites and such a intricate and amazing and funny movie!

[@vivianamora7505]

Absolutely love this! ❤

[@Thetasigmaalpha]

In the UK bypasses where a thing that happened in the 60’s To 90’s. Due to the way most villages that major roads past through at the being constricted to one lane each way leading to tail backs and accidents. The government with its usual heavy handedness used compulsory purchase orders to get the land necessary and this lead to resentment. Villages lost revenue people lost homes and script writers got a joke. Other than Hitchhikers, Blott on the landscape uses it for comic affect .

[@chrisbarker1046]

I love the way it is a combination of elements, action film yesterday, but also horror, comedy, even Agatha Christie mystery....

[@ReverendMeat51]

It's the Big Lebowski of action movies

[@Zed-fq3lj]

Good comparison!

[@darthziv]

technically, the Hobbit is not a Lord of the Rings adaptation, it's an adaptation of the Hobbit, a different book in the same world. So Martin Freeman, who only played Bilbo on the Hobbit (unlike Ian Holm, who not only played him in LotR but cameoed him in the beginning of Hobbit), should not count as a LotR adaptation actor.

[@ZonkerRoberts]

Surprised not to hear mention of "The Wicker man" (big-city cop gets sent to a small village in the hinterlands and discovers a local cult) or Chinatown ("forget it, Nicolas. It's Sandford.")

[@YetiStew]

I've seen this film a lot and the dead mime still makes me laugh...every time

[@wawzzz9849]

I watched it last week.. Love it😂

[@heinleinman]

This is my favourite of the cornetto trilogy. Scott Pilgrim against the world is my favourite Edgar Wright.

[@realPlinkett]

Responding to Tayo: They are not Criss Angel experts as they are confusing him with David Blaine. 😅

[@jacknotwest1200]

54:53 Clint having flashbacks to the carpet video haha

[@jacknotwest1200]

Idk if it is but I’ve always seen the final fight scene between Angel and Skinner at the end of the film as a nod to the bond Sanchez fight in license to kill with the sprinklers representing the leaking oil truck and the slow mo running in to each other

[@HelloMisterJAMWAH]

I didn't notice this but my friend who's a massive Bond fan said the shot of Dalton crawling from the cop car is a direct homage

[@MajorPooper418]

I’d love a conversation about great Asian Cinema. I’d argue heavily that Farewell My Concubine or Infernal Affairs ought to be on the Cinefix 100. Infernal Affairs in particular as that movie is what the Departed is based on.

[@marcplourde4272]

Nic Cage as P.I. Staker

[@yodude8686]

Cal might confuse Criss Angel with pickup artists, but Clint confuses Criss angel with David Blaine. That was David Blaine at Harrison Ford's house, put some respect on his name

[@CaptainFirefred]

For me, aside from the general tribute to action movies HF really is, Wright and Pegg really flexed with a cop movie script that has no casualties caused by the heroes. The mine thing is a circumstantial.

[@GitShiddy]

Duos sublists: Buddy Cop, Romantic, Odd Couple, Bros, Arch Nemeses, Toxic, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Parents, Kid Duos, Unwanted Alliances. I look forward to the list.

[@WhiskyCanuck]

Mentors and mentees.

[@GitShiddy]

@@WhiskyCanuck Shit that's good.

[@cheetarah9199]

I wasn't really that fussed by Hot Fuzz the first time I watched it - not as good as Shaun of the Dead, I thought. I would now say its easily in my top 20 films - it just gets better with every re-watch and my fav of the cornetto trilogy and like the Holy Grail, every scene is so quotable....

[@theonlymegumegu]

31:45 ok, biggest revelation of the video for me, i never knew Tony Scott directed Unstoppable, that explains so much now

[@BehindTheScreen118]

Nicolas Cage as Lurch, the trolley boy.

[@BoyAditya]

4:54 hut fuzz budget (according to Google) is £8 million, shaun of the dead is $6.1 millions, the most expensive is World's end for $20 million...

[@Saul.2910]

Hot Fuzz > Shaun of the Dead all day

[@lydia1634]

The miniature town isn't there as a film reference. It's based on a real model town near where Edar Wright grew up.

[@jphilb]

Clint, when are you going to get back in the studio with your crew?

[@christopherharvie8716]

I think that the jokes that reappear in Hot Fuzz aren’t rehashing the same joke but a reference to Shawn of the Dead, a variant on the original joke not repeating it.

[@tobewanad]

Another fun movie that is an homage and spoof of the genre is Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Well worth it for fans of 80's slashers!

[@darinfoat8410]

Some suggestions for your Duos list - Siblings. Parent/Child duos. Human/Animal duos. Enemies who are forced to team up. Master/Apprentice. And whatever combo would get Kermit and Fozzie Bear on the list. Amphibian and mammal?

[@Thetasigmaalpha]

I think the propensity to do goes back to the Blue Lamp in the fifties which introduced Jack Warner as Dixon of Dock Green who he played for 20 odd years despite dieting in the movie.

[@Edhelvar]

That Harrison Ford story was with David Blaine, not Criss Angel :)

[@dobredavid7810]

Guys, when is your next list coming up ?

[@Komirowsky]

I first time watched this film on TV, i seen eyes of the "girdled" and my brain wait i know them... and started to looking and learn that it was Cate Blanchet

[@jinpei05]

My favorite of the Cornetto Trilogy 😊

[@daniellezepess]

Apologies if someone else has already mentioned this - it wasn't Chris Angel w/ Harrison Ford. It was David Blaine. 🙂🙃

[@starkparker16]

Repo Man next week

[@mwytrykus]

That Chris Angel orange card trick is basic. You can learn how to do that in several books on magic.

[@santos8468]

"Playtimes over".

[@mechaguru2008]

Can anyone confirm if the scene at the end where one of the bad guys gets in a car only to discover there is a swan in the back seat (they're famously aggressive in the UK) is a reference to the scene in Jurassic park where Dennis Nedry gets in his jeep to discover a dilophosaurus is in the back seat? What's felt like it was, but nobody ever mentions it. Thoughts appreciated!

[@ogur1990]

What's the next week's movie again? I can't understand. "Lion"? "La En"?

[@LeroyYonderboy]

La Haine

[@ogur1990]

Thank you :)

[@jamiericcardo6698]

Angel was named after the sound guy...?

[@stirwoodcraft]

The Fuzz is a term for the police in the uk

[@bogardeth]

David Blaine did the trick with Harrison Ford.

[@MayonnaiseVenusaur]

Kevin Smith didn't write Copout and he's basically disowned it.

[@piyam5948]

Not a single line in the script is wasted, everything has foreshadowing, callbacks, set up or punch line. Not seen another movie like it. Also love the the bad guy would be obvious from the casting so we cast a whole load of famous actors joke

[@cjlister8508]

The comments about GTA were weird as GTA was made by a British company.

[@NoogWheeler]

British guy we hate bypasses because we thing there is something sinister about trying to 'avoid' a village...and don't get we started on those uncaring construction workers....8)

[@paulstroud9686]

The Greater Good....

[@Firegen1]

Happy Easter. It is fantastic, well developed movie... that I cannot watch because it's the kinda gore that makes me vom. (Long story). I enjoy listening to it though because the screenplay is top notch.

[@mattwales2734]

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are equals. World's End is third.

[@Shozb0t]

Nicholas Cage could play George Merchant. The ostentatious wealthy man from America.

[@J.Barreto]

1:01:16 you are talking about David Blaine. David Blaine > Chris Angel

[@Alexlarning]

where is season 4 of the walking dead comics vs show differences?

[@jstock2000]

Anyone catch the movie for next week. I've tried 3 times and it sounds like Gabe said Lion?

[@DanParkhurst318]

La Haine

[@fbritorufino]

This felt too short. The episodes can last for 2h a far as I'm concerned.

[@mickbanner]

I would like this format more if it was just Clint chatting loosely about the movie. Not sure the other two added anything to this chat. (Sorry to troll their efforts).

[@fredcat9080]

Has Edgar Wright ever made a bad movie?

[@dmfuerte]

Most Americans relate to the buddy cop references, but the movie is a subversive critique of British society. Much of the plot is taken from "Wicker Man," a horror film about a removed pagan culture in the UK. In "Hot Fuzz" Pegg plays an incorruptible cop who is exiled from a major city for doing his job too well. He is transferred to a docile suburb where his incorruptibility can produce little damage. The country village, however, is a microcosm of the larger city and the UK--full of conspiracy, pettiness, murder plots, walls of silence, etc. In the safety of satire, Wright exposes a lot of the hypocrisy and corruption of UK society. Had Simon Pegg stayed in the city, he would have uncovered much more disturbing systems of power curation. But having the supercilious lawman haplessly untangle a suburban conspiracy, the humor disarms the sharpness of the criticism. There is a history in England regarding the uncomfortable connection of law enforcement and freemasønry. And this film is obliquely peering beyond the veil with it's own layered humor.

[@user-ss3ij1cm2g]

Disculpame yo quiero ver la película no voy mas de uns hora viéndolos a ustedes hablando paja

[@SSGTStryker]

Second!!!! 😂

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

😂

[@LynnHermione]

Sadly that's not being anti toxic masculinity, that's called queerbaiting

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

First

[@CornishCreamtea07]

Shaun of the Dead. Dawn of the Dead but with the S and u replaced The World's End: Name of the final pub Hot Fuzz. I'm unsure of the first word, but Wright said that Fuzz is an old slang term for police.

[@SugarW1thC0ffee]

yea the fuzz is the police lol

[@piyam5948]

Fuzz also pubes so hot fuzz is funny as a satirical action movie name and as a phrase

[@Jiddy12345]

Shaun*

[@scifoncra6376]

best movie of the trilogy. also, wtf. guys have a bromance and they *have* to be in love and kiss? wtf.

[@celticwolff5429]

@02:44 Why use the derogatory term "fan boy" instead of the more positive "fan?"

[@mysticsaxophone4181]

Because who gives a shit that's why

[@celticwolff5429]

@@mysticsaxophone4181 Thank you for your insightful input. You must be a philosopher or a scholar of some type to be able to express yourself so well. I congratulate you for showing the world so succinctly not only the quality of your education but also the quality of your character. Bravo.

[@mysticsaxophone4181]

@@celticwolff5429 Yeah I didn't get my master's degree in cultural studies for nothing. I did it so I could write this sort of thing

[@celticwolff5429]

@@mysticsaxophone4181 Your professors should be proud. Would you share your alma mater's name? Those interested in reaching your enlightened level of brevity & self-awareness might want to apply.

[@fauxdude9756]

But does it have rizz?

[@acidgougewaltz]

i swear if you guys leave The Naked Gun out and this in.... i'm done with your channel

[@moreupdog]

I would love to watch these videos but why does it need to be so long?

[@slickdrick]

Sold out to ign and the channel died and i couldnt be happier

[@BigSexyWizard]

david blane not chris angel.